Condensed concepts

A mystery about science is that humans can do it

Scandals in Australian universities

The disappointing story of superconductivity in Strontium Ruthenate

A multi-disciplinary perspective on mental illness

My mental health journey

Tony Leggett (1938-2026): condensed matter theorist

A forgotten physicist: Amelia Frank (1906-1937)

Information theoretic measures for emergence and causality

A golden age for precision experimental cosmology

The legacy of 40 years of cuprate superconductivity

What is absolute temperature?

Responding to scientific uncertainty

What is temperature?

Maxwell's demon and the history of the second law of thermodynamics

My best blog posts of 2025?

Hikes around Brisbane I recommend

What does learning to ride a bicycle teach us?

Elastic interactions and complex patterns in binary systems

Why is the state of universities such an emotional issue for me?

Overdoped cuprates are not Fermi liquids

Rodney Baxter (1940-2025): Mathematical Physicist

Can AI solve quantum-many body problems?

Undergraduates need to learn about the Ising model

One hundred years of Ising

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: Macroscopic quantum effects

Nobel Prize predictions for 2025

Elastic frustration in molecular crystals

Turbulent flows in active matter

Confusing bottom-up and top-down approaches to emergence

The role of superconductivity in development of the Standard Model

Multi-step spin-state transitions in organometallics and frustrated antiferromagnetic Ising models

"Ferromagnetic" Ising models for spin-state transitions in organometallics

The two-state model for spin crossover in organometallics

My review article on emergence

Spin crossover is a misnomer

Science job openings in sunny Brisbane, Australia

Reviewing emergent computational abilities in Large Language Models

Emergence in Chemistry

What Americans might want to know about getting a job in an Australian university

Thermodynamics and emergence

Lamenting the destruction of science in the USA

Pattern formation and emergence

Remembering the student protestors who died 36 years ago

Emergence and quantum theories of gravity

The triumphs of lattice gauge theory

Characteristics of static disorder can emerge from electron-phonon interactions

Could quantum mechanics be emergent?

Phase diagrams elucidate emergence

Lamenting the disintegration of elite USA universities

An authoritarian government takes over universities: one case history

Superconductivity: a poster child for emergence