Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
[](https://orbitingfrog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/screenshot-2014-09-04-10-33-03.png) This Month's edition of Wired (UK) includes a feature…
The latest issue of Astronomy & Geophysics includes an article by your truly about the GitHub/.Astronomy Hack Day at the UK's National Astronomy Meeting in…
I got into a conversation recently about how some astronomical photos can totally change your whole perspective of yourself and your place in the Universe.…
Executable papers are a cool idea in research [1]. You take a study, write it up as a paper and bundle together all your code, scripts and analysis in such a…
Warning: 400 words of geekery ahead! I’ve embarked on an extremely nerdy and wonderful new project: a podcast about rewatching Star Trek. Each week we…
Yesterday was the Hack Day at the UK National Astronomy Meeting 2014 in Portsmouth. I organised it with my good friend Arfon Smith of GitHub, formerly…
Today is the start of the UK National Meeting in Portsmouth. I’ll be there tomorrow, and running the NAM Hack Day on Wednesday with Arfon Smith - which is…
[](http://www.operationwardiary.org) Working at the Zooniverse means that I get to indulge many of my interests beyond astronomy, like history. In January we…
A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents Brut, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of the…
New Zooniverse project goes live today and I warn you: it is highly addictive!