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The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks was a song I’ve had in the back of my mind since my work colleague Dan Murphy pointed me towards the book of Henrietta’s life story. Performing at the Cancer Research UK summer bash gave me some impetus into making it happen, but I only had it ready a…
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All You Need Is Blood
As it is Halloween coming up, and there is an urgent need to replenish blood supplies, I have organised my second donation in recent times, and done a spooky video to go with it! Check it out on TikTok and then why not try organising a donation yourself? The UK you can find out more…
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Wellcome Genome Campus Queens Baton Relay
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 day, and I am pleased…
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Genomics! The Musical! Video Playlist
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 end of the year. Enjoy…
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Museum of Zoology Photo Shoot
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 (it was donated to the museum after it washed up on the South coast but there wasn’t room to…
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The 2013 Martian Chronicles
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!
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Genomics! The Musical! at The Broad Institute
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! I was attending a GA4GH conference and was able to manage this performance. This was a slightly different space (an open area performance staircase!) and audience (trained…
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You Must Be Mendel – Video
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 pretty much all written down…
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Lamprey For Your Life
After I heard about the Eurofishion competition set up to mark World Fish Migration day in October this year, I decided to have a go at entering it. Eventually inspiration came from my time working on the Ensembl Genome Browser – the version at the time annotated each species with some text to denote the…
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