- writing
Soul Relic Prologue
A brief snippet teasing much more to come!
Blog Posts
A vast collection of thoughts, outreach, projects and travel.
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- writing
The Continent of Rhodus
Detailing the world for my upcoming fantasy novel.
- travel
A weekend in Scotland
Visiting the Isle of Skye for some amazing views.
- python
- outreach
Datascience Pipelines
For the DSGo 2020 Virtual Conference I put together a workshop on datascience pipelines. Check it out.
- outreach
- python
SDS Podcast - Pipelines
A good chat with Kirill about COVID-19, pipelines, and data ethics.
- outreach
- python
Science Friction
A chat with Natasha Mitchell on ABC's Science Friction about pivoting to COVID-19 research.
- python
- project
Barry: BAO Model Comparison
A python framework for comparing BAO model implementations.
- outreach
- python
SDS Podcast - Hypothesis Testing
A good chat with Kirill about hypothesis testing, p-hacking, statistics and significance.
- project
Space Birthdays
Because once just isn't enough.
- travel
SIEF Berlin
An industry tour through Berlin.
- outreach
LINO19
Representing Australia at the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting 2019
- travel
Europe Strikes Back
The second European jaunt, featuring Switzerland and Germany
- outreach
Coding@Home
Talking about machine learning in astronomy and how its made our lives so much better!
- python
- creative
Neural Style Transfer
A small python project I forked to learn neural styling and create a birthday gift for my sister.
- outreach
Pint of Science 2019
Thought I'd see if alcohol can help out with my driest research topic!
- travel
Return to Cradle Mountain
Revenge of the PhD student. Or something.
- python
- project
Steve: A model for supernova cosmology
A Hierarchical Bayesian model for supernova cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey.
- travel
Cosmology on Safari
How all conferences should be run!
- outreach
Probably Science Podcast
A scientist and three comedians. Oh dear.
- outreach
BrisScience Lecture
The Dark Side of the Universe presented in only an hour.
- outreach
Astronomy at Gumdale
It's a great field to be in, so let's get that message out there.
- python
Setting up a scientific python environment
A super short guide to quickly setting up a viable python environment.
- creative
Hidden Treasure
Another play with rigid bodies, this time adding in some slow motion!
- creative
The Tower of Two Blocks
A basic KEVA simulation showing the different effects of two block materials.
- creative
Solar System Size Scale
To learn about Blender's compositing I decided to go all dramatic in an very astronomical way.
- creative
Gas Explosion
From rigid body sims to smoke sims, Blender is growing on me!
- creative
Coloured Smoke
Playing around with attributes to see what weird stuff I can do!
- creative
Glowing Galton Board
Wanted to get some experience with Blender, this seemed like a good way!
- outreach
readr 2017
Spreading some open-source love to undergraduate students
- outreach
Code Workshop
Bringing a finer appreciation of open-source development to the astronomical masses!
- creative
Desert Caves Map
Because at some point you need to include lava.
- creative
Desert Camp Map
Round Two... Fight!
- creative
Desert Canyon Map
For a desert campaign, you always need another map!
- creative
Making Taipan's Logo
In all its serpentine glory
- outreach
Physics in the Pub
A fun night of physics talks, songs and verse with Dr Phil Dooley
- outreach
Battle of the Brains
Two teams of scientists battle to make the biggest fools of themselves.
- creative
What is OzDES?
Less science, more art.
- travel
Visiting Chicago
Thank you DES.
- outreach
Pint of Science 2017
Turns out drinking and science is a winning combination for a lot of people. Shocking!
- creative
Making a utility knife
Because going to the shops is too easy.
- outreach
ScopeTV Guest Scientist
The solar system is hard to visualise with an image, so we took it out into the field.
- outreach
Famelab 2017
Three minutes to wow a crowd. No slides, no presentation, no pressure!
- project
Refractorium
A light transport simulator written in vanilla javascript!
- creative
Making bismuth crystals
Because it's more time intensive and expensive than buying the crystals themselves!
- creative
Making a Moon Mosaic
UK and Australia combined, our powers are data reduction.
- travel
Japan Winter Holiday
Tokyo, Kyoto, Hakuba, Sapporo and Otaru
- outreach
An Evening with Dr Lisa Randall
An introductory speech for Dr Randall's event, on experimental astrophysics!
- outreach
Uluru Astronomer in Residence
A week of being CAASTRO Astronomer in Residence at Uluru.
- python
- project
Survey Visualiser
Visualising the thousands of galaxies in modern surveys.
- python
- project
ChainConsumer
My python library to digest MCMC chains and create plots.
- travel
LBNL - California
LA, San Francisco, Berkeley and Yosemite.
- python
Get Lit; Atlassian Ship-It
A weekend hackathon down at Atlassian, to make an academic search engine.
- travel
Gemini - La Serena, Chile
AGUSS Studentship to Chile over the summer.
- python
- project
Detecting Globular Clusters
Detecting stars and Globular Clusters in Maffei 1 using machine learning.
- python
- project
WiggleZ 2D BAO
Detecting large scale structure in the Wigglez survey.
- creative
Kubo Oscillator
In the computational physics class I took we investigated the Kubo Oscillator. Some of the plots are nice.
- travel
Overland Track - Tasmania
Hiking the Overland Track.
- project
Marz
AngularJS project to do online redshifting of galactic spectra.
- travel
European Holiday
England, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and more.
- project
DJ Board
Java, C and lots of solder combine to form a DJ board.
- project
Laser Satellite
Designing a satellite control system to shoot lasers at targets.
- creative
The Most Useless Machine
Now with a use: birthday present denial.
- creative
Mood Bottle
The best gift is a hand made one. Hence some hand made mood lighting!
- creative
The Blue Planet
First attempt at photoshop to create an image without stock images.
- creative
Lightning Strike
First attempt at photoshop stock manipulation.
- project
Computer Case
Using 3DS and Maxwell to create and render a compute case.