Author: Alex
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Everywhere I’ve been
I’m back! In fact, I submitted my DPhil nearly a month ago. The reason there’ve not been any posts yet is I haven’t known what to write. (If you have any ideas, the contact…
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Explaining my thesis, part I: the phase transition
This post was originally posted on my attempt at a science communication blog, Probably Interesting. I moved it over here in March 2026 so I could have everything I’ve blogged about in one place.…
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Quiz of the year
I thought my last post would be the last one of 2020, which is why I finished it with a Christmas greeting. But I had a lone weekend without the need to do thesis…
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Shotover Country Park
Hmm, how do I feel about this post? On the one hand, I said that I wouldn’t encourage people to travel for as long as there was a pandemic. On the other, government advice…
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… this time for real
I’m writing this from Edinburgh. It’s not the first time I’ve been in Edinburgh since I started this blog: once I was here and chose not to write about it for several reasons which…
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COVID: update
I don’t have a huge amount of time to write a post this week, for reasons that I won’t go into this week but will hopefully tell you about next week. (I know, very…
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You can’t spell “COVID” without O, C, D
CN: OCD, COVID This is probably the most personal blog post I’ve ever written. I had a test for COVID on Wednesday. I was experiencing a pretty scary lack of taste, and there were…
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Faringdon
Normally when I write about a place, I try to come up with an overarching theme for the post. But there are three things I want to talk about here, and they’re all very…
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Double double word score: part II
This post was originally posted on my attempt at a science communication blog, Probably Interesting. I moved it over here in March 2026 so I could have everything I’ve blogged about in one place.…
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Farmoor Reservoir
As you’ll have no doubt seen in the news, yesterday was “Super Saturday”, when England celebrated the return of pubs, restaurants and hairdressers. Anyone who knows me will know, or at least can probably…