My first ever book cover! Made with maths, pencil, drawing robot, and photographic negative. Thank you @limorraviv.bsky.social and @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for asking me to do it, and for the lovely handwritten dedication inside 😊

The court *explicitly* does not attempt to define “woman”. No matter the harms this judgment will cause an endlessly beleaguered & oppressed minority (whilst doing nothing about the real source of gender-based violence), we should not allow lazy headline writers to claim it means more that it does.

My new drawing finally done. Made using robot pen plotter, ballpoint pens, a drawing algorithm, and a photograph of lichen I picked up at the Carbeth hutter’s community. This was about 24 hours of drawing time and at least a couple of miles of ink.

What a spectacular set from the wonderful @larajonesmusic.bsky.social at Wavetable tonight. Cathartic and transformative as needed in these challenging days. Listen to it when it’s up on YouTube in the next few days… but listen to it LOUD. (Thank you a million fold for coming up again Lara!)

Across lots of species (including humans) we tend to find communication systems appear to be designed to be efficient. This means more frequent elements should be shorter. We find this for our segmented units, which makes them plausible candidates for "real" units for the whales.

To our amazement, this approach worked first time, with no tweaks to the code being needed to make it work with the whales! We discovered these word-like units, and they followed the same statistical distribution that is found in all human languages.

We reasoned we could apply the same technique to whale song. To start with we did something we assumed wouldn't work and just poured 8 years of whale recordings into a programme that modelled this simple segmentation process inspired by human infants.

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A couple of ballpoint pen drawings I’ve been working on these last few days. Trying to channel some complicated emotions into these. They took many hours of plotting with my trusty Schneider Express 735 pens on hot pressed watercolour paper.

More exploration of distorted squircles - trying to find balance and gentleness in separation. #ballpointpenart #penplotter #axidraw

Really happy with how this one turned out. It’s brown ballpoint pen on A3 yupo paper drawn by my pen plotting robot. I’m exploring zooming into different mathematical functions (here, a squircle) iteratively distorted by 2d noise landscapes. #ballpointpenart #generativeart #axidraw #penplotterart

“Tonight will be bad, and tomorrow beyond all imagining.” Happy solstice everyone. Onwards to brighter days. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Excited to be taking my new minimalist system out to play a solo set at Wavetable this week. This is very much made possible by the @expert-sleepers.co.uk disting NT at its heart. Only 3 tickets remaining! Check out wavetable.info for the Wavetable info.

I’m playing a solo improvised set at Wavetable next week (Thursday 12th at 7.30pm). Come along if you can! Wavetable.info for tickets (we always sell out, so do get in quick).