Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026San Francisco Bay in the 1830s — in particular, see the middle sentence. (Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Dana, published 1840) 000
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Jewel amongst dross. (one for the physicists and mathematicians) 010
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Possibly the only sonnet on Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics 000
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Thanks to my wonderful grad students (especially Martin) for this cake for my birthday today! 000
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Beautiful on a cold winter morning, as for the last 600 years. 040
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Happy to see Origins reviewed in Nature Astronomy 010
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024(For the physicists): spotted in the fiction section of the bookshop. 030
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Britain 1906: confident, manly, imperial, assured. No idea what was coming. 010
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yes, there was an hour of light snow in Oxford earlier this week. But seriously….. 010
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I'm a physicist and I don't major in complex emotions, but when I think about my subject my spine tingles. Me reading from my book. Let's see how this compares to the other place. (Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs) 222
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024Publication day! I well know my good fortune in being able to publish a poetry book through a trade press as good as Oneworld. But I also think this book is like none other 1/4 242
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 20/08/2024Having been over every line > 50 times and having read every line out loud > 10 times, the final read before the book goes to the printers. 020
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 15/08/2024Occasional series of poems related to science, here by the brilliant American sonneteer Edna St Vincent Millay 010
Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 22/03/2024Much toil, many publications and long calculations: but the thing I have written with most reach remains Chapter 7 from my 2015 book Why String Theory? on the enduring intellectual value of string theory. 0213