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Joseph Conlon

@josephpconlon.bsky.social
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Physicist (string theory), writer and poet (Origins:The Cosmos in Verse, Oneworld Publications, Nov 2024). New College, Oxford; writing represented by The Wylie Agency.

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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
San Francisco Bay in the 1830s — in particular, see the middle sentence. (Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Dana, published 1840)
San Francisco Bay in the 1830s
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Nominative determinism
Baron Brain, neurology expert
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Jewel amongst dross. (one for the physicists and mathematicians)
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Possibly the only sonnet on Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Thanks to my wonderful grad students (especially Martin) for this cake for my birthday today!
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Beautiful on a cold winter morning, as for the last 600 years.
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Happy to see Origins reviewed in Nature Astronomy
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
(For the physicists): spotted in the fiction section of the bookshop.
A book called 'Swamplandia'
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Britain 1906: confident, manly, imperial, assured. No idea what was coming.
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Yes, there was an hour of light snow in Oxford earlier this week. But seriously…..
An Apres Ski bar set up in central Oxford
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Part 2
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'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)
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Publication 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
Picture of Origins: The Cosmos in Verse
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
A particularly odd crackpot email!
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Having 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.
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Occasional series of poems related to science, here by the brilliant American sonneteer Edna St Vincent Millay
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Joseph Conlon @josephpconlon.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Much 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.
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