About me

Hello!

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

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 elephants).

But for the past decade I’ve been working as a science journalist and editor. 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 cover a wide range of topics, from the origin of the solar system and interaction between biodiversity and health, to microbiology and the description of new species.

Whilst working at the Natural History Museum, London, I also co-developed and led its first-ever LGBTQ+ Natural History tour, turned it 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 dabbled 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 an insect net to catch insects.

I also really like birding, enjoy embroidery and make the odd bit of ceramics.

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