Throughout my life I must’ve given hundreds of talks now, and almost always I’m asked before I talk whether or not I’m nervous. Who doesn’t feel anxiety when speaking in front of a crowd? Here’s a collection of tips I compiled to help prepare for public speaking: Make a list of the key points you…
Trying to blog even semi-regularly turns out to be difficult! I didn’t even notice that its been 9 months since my last post! But last month I have been busy setting up my new youtube channel ‘space mog’ as well as other accompanying social media sites (instagram, facebook). Hopefully this will help steer my career…
I’m currently working on a problem where I need to sample from a very specific custom pdf. It has taken me a lot of time to get this pdf written down but now that I finally have it, I’m just missing one key ingredient… the selection function! This is when you have some underlying data…
Okay so a few weeks ago at work a colleague asked me where I was from in the UK, and I replied “Oh, it’s a small little town, you’ve probably never heard of it, Coventry. It’s close to Birmingham”. This is a natural response for me given that I lived in the US for a…
Earlier this week I visited ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. I’ve been very fortunate for this to be the 3rd time I have been to facility. The last time was pretty cool – I mean, it’s not every day you get a personal tour by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, especially whilst he’s…
I had the rare opportunity to go observing on the 4m Blanco telescope on Cerro Tololo, Chile. The telescope itself was built in the 70’s so its mind blowing that it is still functional today. This telescope like many other similar oldies are constantly given new life with the instalments of new instruments. Right…
