OK this could be either short and uninformative or very long and boring... And it might change from time to time.

I have recently moved to Birmingham to continue my PhD. I am working in cognitive neuroscience and kill time by putting volunteers in MRI scanner to try to figure how they integrate sound and vision as a coherent whole. Not clear ? Ask me questions : I love explaining what I do.

Have not yet started again to go climbing regurlarly but that should come soon : I love this sport !

Another thing you might need to know is that I tend to think of myself as a secular humanist, a rationalist, skeptic and a materialist (in the scientific sense of the term - not in the old philosophical one).
In a less pompous way : I just love science !

Otherwise I am once again thinking of being politically active in some local group : red and black are my colors, with some green here and there and huge dose of purple.

In general I'm here to meet people not far from me and see how it goes from there.

Two last things : The "bi" in my profile is to be understood as "bi - curious". I was until very recently in a very long-term polyamourous relationship and I cannot imagine being in a relationship that would not be a poly one.

1) For some reasons, I've just moved to England to do a PhD... again... And that takes up quite a large part of my time !

2) Trying to make a difference... which is hard for a biologist cause we hate mathematics !

Trying to be a skeptic and doubting :
- weird and extraordinary claims,
- myself.

Besides that...

As we are usually quite poor at estimating our own skills, especially when we suck at something, I'll be cautious about what I am going to say.

I guess I am not so bad cooking and baking, though I always find that I am not imaginative enough.

I have been told to be a good listener.

I have also been told that I am a good photographer, climber and squash player... But, honestly, I doubt it !

I don't know as I have never asked anyone. But I'll guesstimate (and flatter myself at the same time) that it could be :
- my hair,
- the weird pattern of my beard/goatee,
- my eyes,
- my piercings,
- the political/geeky/sexually connotated message on my T-shirt .

BOOKS
Fiction ( Mostly science-fiction ):
- China Mieville
* Perdido Street Station
* The scar
* The iron council
- Robert Anton Heinlein
* Starship troopers
* The moon is a harsh mistress
* Stranger in a strange land
- Kim Stanley Robinson
* Red mars
* Green mars
* Blue mars
- Ursula Leguin
* The dispossessed
* The left hand of darkness
- Iain Banks
* The culture series (esp The player of games, Use of weapons, Excession...)
- Joe Haldeman
* The forever war
- most of Asimov

Non-Fiction:
- Stephen Jay Gould
* The mismeasure of man
- Elisabeth Lloyd
* The case of the female orgasm
- Jean Bricmont & Alan Sokal
* Fashionable non-sense

What is thing called science ?
Non-sense on stilts
... A lot of other sciency things

- Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman
* The manufacture of consent
- Jean Bricmont
* Imperialisme humanitaire
- Daniel Guerin
* Ni dieu, ni maitre
- Richard Dawkins
* The god delusion
- Howard Zinn
* A people's history of the USA
... A lot of other political things

MOVIES
The experiment
The matrix

DOCUMENTARY
The manufacturing of consent
The corporation
Chasing ice
You cannot be neutral on a moving train

SERIES & ANIMA
Doctor who
Babylon 5
Ghost in the shell : SAC

MUSIC :
Pretty eclectic. My interests range from classical music to jazz and metal. I do not really care for reggae though.

- I'll lump together : air, water, essential amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins and a good ration of daily energy & some others, as just one, otherwise I would not have any space for anything else (neither would anybody else as a matter of fact).
- the scientific method (whatever that beast is), critical thinking...
- a sense of morality or ethics,
- ...
- ...
- ...

How can one make this world a better place ?

How can a man be helpful to the feminist cause ?

It depends. It could be : working, having a drinks with friends, cooking, baking, reading, doing some kind of sporty stuff, traveling... In brief, doing what I feel like doing !
And why does it have to be Friday night specifically ? Really ?! I could give the same answer for any other day.
Anyway I do not think that I plan my life with such regularity.

I enjoy watching leave-your-brain-at-the-door, pyrotechnically eye-candy movies with happy endings.

I find PIV over-rated.