About me

Hello!

I’m Josh, a queer science writer, author and presenter based in London.

With a background in biology, I’ve spent time living on a boat on the Amazon River studying frogs and a year living in a tent in the African rainforest habituating a troop of wild gorillas (and running away from plenty of elephants).

But for the past decade I’ve been working as a science journalist and writer. This has taken me from rewilding projects in the English countryside to dinosaur digs in South Africa, as I report on the amazing science that is helping us better understand and protect the natural world.

I currently work at the Natural History Museum, London, as a writer and editor. This covers everything from the origin of the Solar System to the description of new species, with a healthy dose of things in jars.

Whilst at the Museum I’ve also co-developed and led its first-ever LGBTQ+ Natural History tour, turned this into an award-nominated YouTube series and wrote it up into a book! That’s a lot of queer wildlife.

As a side to the writing, I also dabble in presenting on the Natural History Museum’s YouTube channel. There’s a video somewhere of me making a fool of myself by sticking my head in a net to catch insects.

I also really like birding, enjoy embroidery and make the odd bit of ceramics. A true Renaissance man. Maybe.

If you want to chat about writing 📝 talking 📣 or presenting 🎥 then drop me a message here.