I’ve been called a lot of things but ‘rebel’ hasn’t come up too often. Not that I mind. As part of a Mazda campaign, I’m being highlighted as one of four TED Fellows* who are ‘Mazda R...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/09/mazda-makes-my-year-by-calling-me-a-rebel/
'Something awesome from the Zooniverse every day' was the tagline that we came up with, almost a year ago, for a new Zooniverse blog: Daily Zooniverse. Grant Miller had recently arrived to work ...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/09/a-daily-dose-of-zooniverse/
Today is the start of the UK National Meeting in Portsmouth. I’ll be there tomorrow, and running the NAM Hack Day on Wednesday with Arfon Smith - which is going to be awesome. Today at NAM, t...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/06/lsst-public-data-and-nam-hack-day-2014/
Working at the Zooniverse means that I get to indulge many of my interests beyond astronomy, like history. In January we launched a project in partnership with the Imperial War Museum and the�...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/06/crowdsourcing-the-first-world-war-a-lovely-social-machine/
A new Milky Way Project paper was published to the arXiv last week. The paper presents Brut, an algorithm trained to identify bubbles in infrared images of the Galaxy. Brut uses the catalogue o...
TED 2014 has just ended here in Vancouver and I have finally now experienced an event I’ve heard a lot about for many years. I’ve watched TED talks online for as long as I’ve watched anythi...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/03/ideas-worth-spreading-my-ted-2014-experience/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DppJ-Sexmdg This was recorded at the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London in February - it's me summarising the Zooniverse for anyone out there that might like to ...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/03/the-zooniverse-in-3mins-21s/
This week is the BBC's Stargazing Live show: three now-annual nights of live stargazing and astronomy chatter, live from Jodrell Bank. CBeebies are also getting in on the act this year, which I...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2014/01/backstage-at-bbc-stargazing-live/
Just over three years the Zooniverse launched the Milky Way Project (MWP), my first citizen science project. I have been leading the development and science of the MWP ever since. 50,000 volunt...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2013/12/a-brand-new-milky-way-project/
We're expanding the Zooniverse team in Oxford and we're looking for web developers. You need to be able to work in Oxford (which is a lovely place to work) and you need to want to change the way...
https://orbitingfrog.com/2013/11/zooniverse-jobs-come-work-with-us-in-oxford/