Writing

I write about popular science, technology, and math for general audiences. I've written for student publications including Woroni and The Varsity.

My favourites:

• Maths vs skateboarding: I take a light-hearted look at the proof that there are only four skateboard flip tricks up to homotopy (Carlisle et al., https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06307). My article was Woroni's most-read online article of 2021!

• Is Google going away?: An in-depth look at Google's threat to pull out of Australia entirely. I was (briefly) quoted by The Fulcrum, the University of Ottawa's student paper.

• U of T scientists sign open letter declaring climate emergency: A report on an international letter warning of the consequences of climate change, published in 2019.

• Peering into a black hole: A piece on the world's first image of a black hole.

My full archive:

2022

• "To Be Chosen"

2021

• Maths vs skateboarding

• The 2021 Olympics: minutes and milliseconds

• Proving without knowing: the 2021 Abel Prizes in mathematics

• Cracking muon g-2

• What is on Mars, if not a rover persevering?

• Is Google going away?

2020

• Science needs a language revolution

2019

• U of T scientists sign open letter declaring climate emergency

• Quantifying the climate crisis: how changes could impact road maintenance

• Peering into a black hole

• A walk on the far side

2018

• 'Oumuamua: Comet, asteroid, or other?

• The art of unseen things

• Lost Opportunity

• Touring ANU's particle accelerator

• The universe will never be the same

My editing work:

I was the science sub-editor for Woroni for Editions 1-3 of 2019, which you can read here.