Now

Living

As a senior research data scientist at The University of Birmingham.
As a consultant research neuroscientist with the Kymata Research Group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.
As a freelance graphic designer, currently working with editorial consultant and entrepreneur Eleanor Turney, and artist and game designer Tori Truslow.

You can see more about my work on my professional website.

With the Birmingham Green Party. We recently got 19 city councillors elected across Birmingham, and had the largest vote-share of any party in the city — the best ever result!

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. One I read as a youth and loved but remember sufficiently little to revisit almost fresh.
Dragons and Dreamsellers by Krista Joy, with my kids. They are really enjoying it, but it’s a little bit scary so I have to keep reading ahead to reassure them it’s ok.
Typeset In The Future, by Dave Addey. Exactly my kind of coffee-table book. Well-researched and funny.
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff. Like a few other books in a similar vein which I’ve read, this feels like the author did a colossal amount of research, and felt the need to include it all within the text. Dense, extremely long, somewhat overwrought, a bit repetitive, but still of interest. I do tend to read this to get to sleep, but I still enjoy it.

X+Y, by Eugenia Cheng. I thought this had a good core idea, and one which I think I’ll keep in my mental toolkit. But it was quite long in a way I often find these kind of pop-sci books. I thought the previous book of hers that I read was a little better paced. I enjoyed it though.
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks. I really like Iain M. Banks, and this one was one of the better Culture books I’ve read. Very philosophical.
Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers. Interesting to read this direct, humanist book immediately after Look To Windward. It was such a tonal change I found it a bit jarring. But I enjoyed the book a good deal and intend to read the sequel.

868-BACK by Michael Brough. It’s very good, if you like this kind of thing.
Ring Fit Adventure, with my kids.
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure, also with my kids. (I already played it.)
Hades 2 (Switch version).
Obduction, very slowly, with my family. Playing each of Cyan Worlds’ games together is a tradition we’ve upheld since I was a child — we love them.

What’s a now page?

Here’s what I was doing previously: