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Academic papers
Interviews & mentions
- This Month’s New Moon Will Be The Farthest From Earth For The Next 18 Years (IFLScience)
- Earth Speed-Up Means No Leap Seconds Since 2016! (EarthSky)
- One of the shortest days is coming, and it’s not winter solstice (KTVU FOX 2)
- Earth’s spin is speeding up! (EarthSky)
- Earth’s Rotation Sped Up on July 9—and We’re Not Sure Exactly Why (Newsweek)
- Ask the Experts: 2024 Total Eclipse (Office Hours Global — from 59:16)
- How much daylight does Australia receive every day? (ABC News Australia)
- A Guide to Live-Streaming Astronomy Events (Europlanet Magazine)
- Adventures in Astronomy Live-Streaming (Astronomers Without Borders)
- Earth is spinning unexpectedly faster and scientists are baffled (FOX)
- When astronomy went virtual (Europlanet Society)
- Houston, we have a problem (Daily Telegraph)
- Live streaming eclipses around the world (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)
- Wo sind sie alle? (Springer International Publishing)
- Why 2021 Was the Quickest Year Ever on Record (Newsweek)
- Por qué el año 2021 “tendrá los días más cortos en décadas” (BBC Mundo)
- Solar eclipse will create a rare crescent sunrise for millions of viewers (National Geographic)
- Live interview from Huambo, Angola (Slooh)
Astronomy
- Long-term weather trends favor viewing of 2023’s annular eclipse
- Did solar eclipses help kick-start human curiosity?
Noroeste (Mexico)
Son Playas (Mexico)
EarthSky
- 2023’s most-illuminated quarter moon is tonight (re-printed from timeanddate)
- April 2023 solar eclipse: 10 things to know (re-printed from timeanddate)
- On Saturday … Closest new moon in 1,337 years (re-printed from timeanddate)
- November 2021 partial lunar eclipse longest for 1,000 years (re-printed from timeanddate)
- May-June 2021: A special pair of eclipses (re-printed from timeanddate)
- A new method for predicting large solar flares
- Bringing community astronomy to rural Africa
- Astronomy beyond sight
- Listening to the patterns of the universe
- Mystery of the moon’s tilted orbit
- Where exactly is the moon? Eclipse stories from Indonesia
- Solar eclipse to unite science students
Sky & Telescope
- The 400-Year Rhythm of Great Conjunctions (with Steffen Thorsen)
- Galileo: Work-from-home Wizard, and Other Tales from Lockdown
- Top Ten Ephemeral Sky Sights
- What Can Lunar Eclipses Do For Science?
- What is the Saros Cycle and How Does It Foretell Eclipses?
- “Lights All Askew”: How a Solar Eclipse Made Einstein Famous
- A Teachable Moment: When the Moon’s Shadow Came to Angola
Physics World
- Katsuhiko Sato: from inflation to science policy
- Douglas Trumbull: a mutual appreciation between scientists and moviemakers
- Wish you were here? Seven chances to experience a total solar eclipse in the 2020s
- The top five films about science or scientists
- Japanese spacecraft set to attempt asteroid sample grab
- Citizen scientists spot meteorite strike during lunar eclipse
- The complicated relationship between science and sci-fi
I-M
Seibido Publishing
- Charles Darwin: Time Traveller (one of three chapters I wrote for the university textbook R.E.A.D.I.N.G.)
Mail & Guardian Africa
- Africa gets ready for another sun and moon show
- Ring of fire: Africa awaits September 1st annular eclipse
Jakarta Globe
- Eclipse Stories: The World Joins Together in Palu
- “The best seat in the solar system”: 10 things you need to know for the March 9th eclipse
- Beauty and Ingenuity: Countdown to March 9 Eclipse
- ‘Completely Off the Charts’: Indonesia Prepares for March 9 Eclipse
Association for Science Education
- Helping STEM students thrive in a multipolar world (article for Education in Science about SkypeRead)
- A brief history of cross-border scientific teamwork (highlights of my presentation at the 2015 ASE conference)
Other projects
- Spain: eclipse waiting 2026/27
- España: eclipse esperando: 2026/27 (en español)
- USA: science + stories (August 2017 total eclipse)
- Angola: February 2017 annular eclipse
- Indonesia: March 2016 total eclipse
- Madagascar, September 2016 annular eclipse
- The use of science-fiction films as media framing devices (MSc dissertation abstract)
- SkypeRead: STEM + movies + teambuilding
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