I’m an academic scientist doing research in Life Sciences at the University of Dundee in the UK.  You can read a brief biography on my research group website.

Any opinions expressed in this blog are mine and don’t represent statements by my employer…

As well as Sciency stuff I  write/play music for piano/synth and flute.  You can make me happy by trying my music on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon Music Unlimited and other streaming platforms.  Older stuff is on SoundCloud.   You  can also find these links on my  Music Site.

Photography is a long-term interest…

I used to be active on twitter but now prefer BlueSky.

I’m also a bit of a weather nut with 5-minute data going back to 2002 for the West End of Dundee, Scotland, UK.   I’ve been asked to comment on local weather in the national press including a  3 minute interview in 2013 on BBC2 by Judith Ralston  and a 15 minute interview  by  Stephen Jardine  on BBC Radio Scotland  in February 2018.

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P.S.  Just to be clear.   I am a research scientist and University Professor,  not the Geoff Barton who is former head of ASCL who did great things for UK school teachers and education in general.  I’m also not the journalist called Geoff Barton who founded the heavy metal magazine “Kerrang!”.  I have been confused with both on occasion – once by a very irate bass player from a heavy metal band who was unhappy with a Geoff Barton review!