New Posts

News Ticker

[ 2026-08-24 ] Letters of Reference and Recommendation Blog
[ 2026-08-20 ] Clarity at last! Use this hierarchy of elements in podcasting Blog
[ 2026-08-11 ] HPSC0011 STS Perspectives on Big Problems 2026-27 Modules
[ 2026-08-11 ] Comparing Tempo and Mode (1944) with Major Features (1953) by George Gaylord Simpson Synthesis Period
[ 2026-08-11 ] Major Features of Evolution (1953) by George Gaylord Simpson Key Texts

Graduates celebrating after UCL ceremony.

Letters of Reference and Recommendation

Students ask for letters of reference and recommendation. Writing them is an important responsibility for tutors. It’s something we take extremely seriously. But what goes into a letter of recommendation? Top Tips When Requesting References […]

Clarity at last! Use this hierarchy of elements in podcasting

Vague terminology in podcasting confuses expectations and ambitions. A proposal to “make a podcast” can sound simultaneously daunting and simple. One person might describe a short mp3 dictation of a story as a “mini podcast”. […]

Lockscreen samples for photography challenge to compose for 19.5:9 aspect ratio.

Phone Lock Screens – Photography Challenge (Gallery)

Screens dominate our visual landscape and beg for our attention. Wallpapers and lock screens pose particular photographic challenges. The extreme aspect ratio. The adaptive brightness. The digital furniture. The unpredictable modifications. The tiny viewing period. […]

Sample Medical Card for Croydon Schoolboys 1920s-1930s

Medical Cards for Croydon Schoolchildren 1920s-1930s

Historians must make more – and more creative – use of AI technologies for data analysis as well as for routine task of data sorting and transcription. To create a simple example, I have put […]

Illustration of "ring species" concept, or Rassenkreis

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis using LLM

I provide data for an LLM-based analysis of the short-lived Society for the Study of Speciation (SSS), organised by Alfred Emerson, through three documents.

[…]

Bernissart Iguanodons in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

The Dinosaur Gallery in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (Brussels Museum of Natural History) includes the famous Bernissart Iguanodons. This consists of thirty complete or nearly complete skeletons excavated from an underground coal […]

Professor Joe Cain

UCL Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology

Letters of Reference and Recommendation

Clarity at last! Use this hierarchy of elements in podcasting

Phone Lock Screens – Photography Challenge (Gallery)

Medical Cards for Croydon Schoolchildren 1920s-1930s

Society for the Study of Speciation: Bibliographic Analysis using LLM

Bernissart Iguanodons in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs – Rare 1968 Pamphlet – 150,000,000 B.C.

#207 Can Generative AI Learn to Love Us? | WeAreSTS

#206 Deaf Sentence We May Be Losing Our Hearing, Darcy Watson

#205 Why Green Activism Must Turn Blue | WeAreSTS