I write pieces for the London Review of Books: here.

Longer pieces

• Bring me bimagrumab (April 2026) - on The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss
• Who Needs Smoothies? (April 2025) - on Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, From Hagfish to Humans by Bill Schutt
• Lord of the Eggs (August 2024) - on The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson
• Petrifying Juices (January 2024) - on Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale E. Greenwalt
• Plant Detectives (September 2023) - on Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes by David J. Gibson
• In the Photic Zone (November 2022) - on Life on the Rocks by Juli Berwald
• Life Soup (April 2022) - on Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich

Blogposts

• Plague Ships (May 2026)
• Meningitis in Kent (March 2026)
• Scratch That (January 2026)
• Metabolic Magic (November 2025)
• Serious Music (January 2025)
• If Life Went Widdershins (December 2024)
• Where’s my tail? (March 2024)
• Like Scotch Eggs (January 2024)
• Conspicuous Cruelty (August 2023)
• Evergreening (July 2023)
• Open the pod bay doors (May 2023)
• Notifiable Diseases (November 2022)
• Diphtheria in the UK (November 2022)
• The Back of the Medicine Cabinet (October 2022)
• Stolen Time (May 2022)
• Rivers of Fire (December 2021)
• How to Track a Mammoth (September 2021)
• Gears within Gears (March 2021)
• ‘What’s That Noshin’ On My Laig?’ (February 2021)
• Platypuses do it differently (January 2021)
• ‘They spend it all on clipboards’ (December 2020)
• A sharp crack and a heavy explosion (September 2019)
• A Sort of Inverse Square Law (June 2019)
• Fool the Discriminator (November 2018)

I also co-write a fortnightly science column in the Morning Star: here.

If you’re bored, I’ve also written a detailed statistical analysis of coughs on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire: here.