About

Welcome to The Soft Anonymous! This blog is my humble attempt to write about science in an accessible way, with a healthy smattering of humour, culture, and excursions into the unknown.

After running a music blog for the past 5 years, this is my first foray into science blogging. When I’m not rambling on about sciencey stuff here, I work as a freelance writer for publications including BBC Focus, Physics World, Cosmos, and the online science magazine Guru. Last year, I was a finalist in the Wellcome Trust / Guardian Science Writing Prize with an article about the ‘Science of Swearing’.

Previously, I studied physics at Nottingham University, followed by a PhD in climate science at Reading University (my thesis topic was El Niño).

Why “The Soft Anonymous”? It’s a line from a Sylvia Plath poem that I thought would make a good band name. As I’m not in said band, I decided to use it for this blog instead.

The blog header image is from Codex Seraphinianus, a beautiful and surreal encyclopedia of an imagined world by Luigi Serafini.

If you have any comments or questions about my blog, you can contact me here!

James Lloyd