Impressions
Some pictures taken while travelling in the context of my research. I also do other things in my life, such as powerlifting or long-distance hiking, and I might occasionally smuggle in some of these pictures here.
Oct 2023: Workshop on "Rethinking Anomalies in Science" with Alisa Bokulich and Matilde Carrera at Pittsburgh HPS.
Jul 2023: Workshop on "Measuring the Human: New Perspective on Measurement in the Human Sciences" at Cambridge HPS. Photo by Cristian Larroulet Philippi
Jul 2023: Symposium on Theory-Testing in Past and Present Gravitational Physics at Foundations in Bristol. Featuring: Qiu Lin, Jamee Elder, Eric Curiel, me, and my professional Photoshop skills.
Nov 2022: Talking about the past and future of geodetic models at Harvard's Earth and Planetary Science Department. Photo credits: Junjie Dong.
Oct 2022: Chinatown (Chicago), after recording an Elucidations episode on the philosophy of measurement with Matt Teichman and Joseph Diller.
Sep 2022: Trying hard to understand operationalism with my niece Anna.
Sep 2022: John Herschel's chart of corrected 18th-century surface gravity measurements, discovered in the archive of the Royal Society. (courtesy of the Royal Society).
Jul 2022: Good times with Claudia Cristalli and Gauthier Fontaine after the Measurement at the Crossroads Conference in Milan. Photo credits: Mahmoud Jalloh.
Jul 2022: Gate of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. Milano. As is apparent in its high artistic quality, the picture was not taken by me but by Mahmoud Jalloh.
April 2022: Price lecture at the Du Châtelet workshop at Duke University. Photo by Alisa Bokulich.
Aug 2021: Newton's Principia as street art in Barbastro, Huesca.
Johann Benedict Listing's New Geometrical and Dynamical Constants of the Earth's Figure (Göttingen 1878). A forgotten but important contribution to physical geodesy, which I rediscovered in the archives of the University of Göttingen.
May 2022: View on Stockholm's city library from the astronomical observatory hill. Taken after a guest lecture for the Department of Engineering at KTH Stockholm.
Feb 2020: Dramatically gesturing while talking about scientific pluralism at the Oxford Philosophy of Physics Graduate Conference. Photo by Caspar Jacobs.
Sep 2021: Dresden's historical center during a workshop on the history of precision measurement at the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen.
Feb 2022: Making funny faces while competing for the Cambridge University Powerlifting Team. Photo by White Lights Media
Sunrise in Peneda-Gerês National Park.