Happening soon!

It was a pleasure to welcome CSER Affiliate Thomas Moynihan to our office yesterday and hear him speak about the history of ideas on climate change and climate control!

My latest, for BBC Future, on a bold Victorian plan to bury a massive time capsule beneath Stone Henge: a "Pompeii for 2800 AD", to be filled with endangered species & "masterclasses in Cockneyism".🐘 With lead illustration done by yours truly! 👉 bbc.com/future/article…

Introducing Thomas Moynihan Thomas Moynihan, Antikythera Affiliate Researcher, a writer and historian interested in the history of ideas regarding the distant future, as well as changing attitudes to the grandest prospects and greatest perils facing life.

Looking forward to talking as part of this 'Science of Deep Time' event in Wales next week, organised by New Scientist — featuring Richard Fisher & lots of other exciting speakers. 🕰️newscientist.com/tours/science-…

Very excited to take part in this in October! 🌎

Was great attending CSER's Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk this week. Good to see panels on the insights history brings to the field. I presented a poster on 'the art of extinction' & how it has changed over the generations... watch this space for future iterations. 👀

Speaking @ Rotterdam's Conflux Festival on Sat, w/ bogna Tessa Verhoef Heleen Blanken & more. I'm talking on fungi, bees, & octopuses: exploring the ways humans fall in love with nonhuman minds & what the history of this love affair teaches us today.👽 confluxfestival.nl

Had a blast speaking at Conflux Festival this weekend. I spoke about the human longing to be more like other animals, and how there's been a marked uptick of this motif in the past century: being that era when human ingenuity invented the means to destroy itself. 🪳🧠 Was fun!

The Fordian Slip is at very long last out in E-flux Architecture as part of The New Silk Road series, and The Syllabus made it essay of the week 🤍🌴 e-flux.com/architecture/n…

In 1928, an astronomer imagined what a spacesuit for walking on Mercury's surface would look like:

1—My latest, for Big Think! On the story of how searching for dinosaurs on Venus revealed how humans might cause climate doom down here on Earth. (It's ultimately a hopeful lesson, though.) Yes, MORE DINOSAURS! 🦕 Read below 👇 bigthink.com/the-past/how-s…

Great fun giving a guest lecture at Central Saints Martin's for a collaborative project between MA Narrative Environments & Next Nature museum in Eindhoven. On what our discoveries about past extinction events might teach us about risks to humanity today...