Science Journalism
Previously, as a freelance journalist, I wrote for TIME, the Guardian, New Scientist, Quanta, Scientific American, BBC, Wired, Undark, Thomson Reuters, CNN and Mongabay, among others. I was the researcher for Seven Elements that Changed the World, shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. And in 2017, I was awarded an Innovation in Development Reporting grant by the European Journalism Centre. Here are some of my bylines.
PHYSICS
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles? - QUANTA
Consciousness in the Cosmos - NEW SCIENTIST
On Contested Ground, SKA Looks to the Heavens - UNDARK / QUARTZ
A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encode its Secrets - QUANTA
Troubled U.S. Neutrino Project Faces Uncertain Future - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
The quantum experiment that could prove reality doesn't exist - NEW SCIENTIST
How the Bits of Quantum Gravity can Buzz - QUANTA/WIRED
In South Africa, ‘Decolonizing’ Mathematics -UNDARK
Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson? - NEW SCIENTIST
Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang - QUANTA
In Swiss Academic Science, Charges of Bullying and Gender Bias - UNDARK
Emmy Noether and the Myth of Genius - LADYSCIENCE
Stephon Alexander interview: Is the universe a self-learning AI? - NEW SCIENTIST
ENVIRONMENT
Revealed: BP’s ‘greenwashing’ social media ads as anger over fuel costs rose - THE GUARDIAN
EACOP Pipeline Through East Africa: Who Profits from the New Oil? – Tagesspiegel
Canadian pipeline groups spend big to pose as Indigenous champions - THE GUARDIAN
How the World's Biggest Polluters Use Social Media to Obfuscate on Climate Change - TIME
These People Are Losing Their Gods to Climate Change – VICE
Uganda’s ecofeminists are taking on mining and plantation industries - MONGABAY
Space is an Ecosystem Like Any Other - UNDARK
Is space an ecosystem? - ABC Radio National
Colonialism’s roots run deep in India’s forests - SAGE (p18)
Young Uganda climate activists join ‘school strike’ push - THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION
Habitat, climate change, make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda - MONGABAY
Rwenzori Mountains: Africa’s surreal ‘Mountains of the Moon’ - BBC Travel
Total’s pipeline gets go ahead from MPs despite secret terms – Mongabay
Is Life Inevitable? - BBC Reel
Uganda environment authority greenlights clearing of Bugoma Forest - Mongabay
TECHNOLOGY
In Artificial Intelligence, Young Ethiopians Eye a Fertile Future - UNDARK / QUARTZ
The city where innovation is driven by necessity - BBC
Feminist Visions of Science and Utopia in Sultana’s Dream - LADYSCIENCE
These tools not only have the power to disrupt, but the power to destruct - EMERGE
This app tells your doctor if you have malaria - CNN
This silent, engineless plane could change air travel - THE OUTLINE
Meet the 19-year-old tech genius coding at Ethiopia's first AI lab - CNN
