Had a lovely Sunday morning at the Society of Young Publishers AGM learning about exciting things on the horizon 🏹 (Also, very glad to be indulging my love for podcasts as their new Digital Content Officer for the pod!)

Leonora Carrington was born #OnThisDay in 1917 ❤️ buff.ly/3zzFiOP

Never thought I’d be reading Thomas Traherne while listening to Avril Lavigne but there you have it

Was such a delight to speak to Rose Sandy! Give a little listen for some great advice 📢

🐝 This little bee is buzzing around the blossom on a 19th-century Chinese fan by artist Chen Fen, a specialist in bird-and-flower painting from Guangzhou, Guangdong province. #WorldBeeDay 🐝

To bee or not to bee (the perennial question for the pollinating critter)

Was such a treat to produce this episode! Give a listen if you’d like to find out about the artsy world of an amazing illustrator 🎨

Rebecca Lindenberg | Interview in The Believer | March 27 2012

New year, new issue. Experience our latest curation in Issue Four: Contours — out now at theprimer.co/latest-issue/ #ThePrimerContours

Benoît Mandelbrot, known today for coining the term “fractal,” also studied the behavior of financial markets and geological phenomena. As a researcher at IBM, Mandelbrot combined the then-neglected field of complex dynamics with nascent computer graphics. quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-d…

Will you be enjoying your pancakes with a twist of lemon today?⁠ ⁠ This beautiful still life is attributed to Cornelis Kick and dates to 1649-1681. You can see this piece on display in Gallery 48 on the second floor. ⁠ashmolean.org/collections-on…

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When cultured meat enters the culture wars, things start to sizzle 🔥 A piece I wrote for The Economist delves into the issue.

It’s a cult condiment from a beloved brand, so why is Huy Fong’s sriracha feeling the heat? I wrote about the company’s business troubles in this recent piece for The Economist, and had the pleasure of speaking about it on The Intelligence podcast too. 🌶️

Thanks to a sponsorship deal reportedly worth €150m ($166m), LVMH will be one of the Paris Olympics’s largest benefactors. Will it pay off? econ.st/4cUENkv 👇

Though a small and self-contained community, the Druze have played a significant role in the countries they have settled in. Now they are caught in the middle of a conflict between Israel and Lebanon. We explain why econ.st/3LNPmcW 👇

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A recent piece for The Economist 🧃

What could be next for screen time in 2025? I took a look at micro-dramas for The Economist’s World Ahead 2025 🌐

Recent piece on how DJI is ramping up defences against a potential ban, for Rest of World 🌎