The music of Destiny – pt. 2

Here's where we left off - in my part 1, on the title track from Destiny 2 - Shadowkeep. Yesterday, the Destiny 2 - The Witch Queen - Season of Plunder dropped, and we've got a wealth (heehee) of new tunes to get into, so better continue with what we've already grown to love first! …

The music of Destiny – pt. 1

I want this to be a love letter* to one of my favourite games of all time (well, two of them, technically) - Destiny, by Bungie. A friend shared the early pre-release trailer with me since we'd been playing a lot of Halo together (the franchise that made Bungie famous; they made Halo 1-3, Reach …

On being a “digital academic”

A colleague asked me why I "left science" last year. I don't really feel like I have; my dayjob involves writing about the amazing research and related goings-on at the place where I completed my PhD. I still feel connected to science; I'm just not at the bench. Perhaps I'm lying to myself, but I'll …

Women who eat on tubes make menz cry

This post is to serve a few purposes: a love letter to my former favourite Facebook group - now sadly gone, a plea to fellow Londoners to take a (possibly literal) stand on this issue, and perhaps a bit of a general education to a few people, but I won't make that objective #1 and I want …

FBrape campaign

On May 21st 2013, the Women, Action  & the Media group wrote an open letter to Facebook, which was signed by over 100 advocacy groups, asking them to review their policies on permitted content. Background There has long been a problem on the site. While its "community standards" seem to be fairly clear: "Facebook does …