Earlier this year I performed at the Wellcome Genome Campus, and this saw the first performance of a new song dedicated to Henrietta Lacks, who passed from Cervical Cancer a century ago. The researchers studying her passing realised her cells were unlike other cancer cells they had studied before in…
This Halloween I decided to link the spookiness of the occasion with the callout for donors for the NHS Blood Donation. Hope you enjoy the quick song below and if you are able to, please consider going to Home – NHS Blood Donation to find out more about what’s involved,…
The 16th official Queen’s Baton Relay is an epic journey across the Commonwealth, with The Queen’s Baton visiting all 72 nations and territories. Before going to Birmingham, the relay hit the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton for one of the changeover points. Karmadillo/Singing Science performed some busking sets on the…
A playlist of videos from Genomics! The Musical! is now available on YouTube. I will update these as newer ones are made ready for the internet. All the songs have videos used in the shows, but I’m hoping to have the full setlist in a public video up by the…
Here are some photo’s from the Museum of Zoology in Cambridge. The revamp (a couple of years ago now) means it has changed a bit since I first used to walk past the whale hanging outside (because there wasn’t room to put it indoors!) as a student walking past on…
The Naked Mole Rat music video!
February 2021 sees THREE different missions bearing down on Mars – read this for insights into launch windows and a song on the history of Martian exploration!
One of the most important centres for Genomics field in the is the Broad Institute, and I was lucky enough to do a show there in October 2019! This was a slightly different space (an open area performance staircase!) and audience (trained geneticists!) to my usual, so there was a…
This is one of the first songs I wrote with a science theme – maybe even the second. Mulling over a Geekpop virtual festival that was being run, inspiration hit as I was heading down to the Co-op to buy something. The idea popped into my head and it was…
After I heard about the Eurofishion competition set up to mark World Fish Migration day in October this year, I w Eventually inspiration came from my time working on the Ensembl Genome Browser – the version at the time annotated each species with a sound, and one of my colleagues…
