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Liam Drew is a science writer covering biomedical research, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, as well as being the founder of Neuwrite London. He is a regular contributor to Nature’s Outlook supplements, and has also written for The Guardian, New Scientist, Slate, Aeon, Nature Medicine and Quanta. His first book - I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals (Bloomsbury) - is out now in paperback. Neuwrite critiqued several sections of that book and also a number of Liam’s features. 
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Helen Scales searches for stories that connect people, science and the natural world, focusing especially on all things aquatic. Her books include a Ladybird book about octopuses and the Guardian bestseller Spirals in Time (Bloomsbury), and most recently, Eye of the Shoal (Bloomsbury).


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Roma Agrawal MBE is a structural engineer by day and an author, presenter and podcaster by night. She wrote the award-winning Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures (Bloomsbury) and produced a mini-series called Building Stories. You can find her on social media @RomaTheEngineer. 
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Curtis Asante is a Senior Research Programme Manager for Cancer Research UK. He has previously held roles as a Project Manager for the UK Regenerative Medicine Platform led by King’s College London and as an editor at Nature Communications (Springer Nature) handling papers in all areas of neuroscience. He completed his PhD in neuropharmacology at University College London and carried out postdoctoral work in neurophysiology and neuroanatomy at Columbia University and the City College of New York. His main interest is the impact of science on society.

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Professor Gina Rippon is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham. She is a past-President of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience and, in 2015, was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the British Science Association. Her research involves state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques to investigate developmental disorders such as dyslexia and autism. She also investigates the use of neuroscience techniques to explore social processes including gender stereotyping and stereotype threat. She is an outspoken critic of ’neurotrash’, the populist (mis)use of neuroscience research to (mis)represent our understanding of the brain and, most particularly, to prop up outdated stereotypes. Her book on this topic The Gendered Brain (Bodley Head, Penguin Random House) came out in February 2019. 

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Yasmin Ali is a chartered chemical engineer with experience in power generation, oil and gas, heat networks, and energy innovation. Having fallen into chemical engineering by accident, she is now passionate about promoting engineering stories and careers to the public. As a writer, she is interested in anything to do with energy and engineering, as well as the human stories of engineers. You can find her on social media @engineeryasmin.
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Hana Ayoob is an events producer, speaker and illustrator working in science communication. She's passionate about bringing people together to explore science and the world around them. Hana studied zoology at university and continues to indulge her interest in weird and wonderful animals by drawing and talking about them. She is currently working on her first book.

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Grace Lindsay got her PhD at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University. She writes and has a podcast (Unsupervised Thinking) about neuroscience and artificial intelligence. She is also due to publish her first book, Models of the Mind (Bloomsbury) - about how physics and engineering have shaped our understanding of the brain - in spring 2021.

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Subhadra Das is a writer, historian, broadcaster, comedian and museum curator at University College London Culture where she works with the UCL Pathology and Science Collections. She regularly talks to diverse audiences in classes, seminars, lectures, public talks and stand-up comedy about all aspects of her work from collections management to working with human remains. Her main area of research is the history of science and medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries, specifically the history of eugenics and scientific racism. She uses museum objects to tell decolonial stories in engaging and affirming ways.

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Clara Barker is a thin-film material scientist who manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity, in the materials department at Oxford University. She the chair of the LGBT+ advisory group to Oxford University and the Dean for Equality and Diversity at Linacre College, as well as a member of the Royal Societies Equality and Diversity Committee. In 2018 Clara won the first VC’s diversity role model award from the University. She runs a youth group for LGBTI+ young people, is a Stonewall school role model, and presented a talk at a TEDxWomen London event in 2018. For her volunteer work she won a Points of Light Award from the UK Prime Minister in 2017.

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Paula Rowińska has a PhD in mathematics and statistics from Imperial College London, where she studied the impact of wind energy on electricity prices. She writes about fun and surprising maths of everyday life - ideas she wish she'd been taught at school alongside boring equations. Make sure you visit her blog!

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Emma Bryce is a journalist and editor based in London. Her work has appeared in publications including The Guardian, Wired Magazine UK, Audubon Magazine, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, and Yale e360. She blogs regularly about food and the environment for Anthropocene, and works with animators at TED Education, an affiliate of TED Talks, to turn educational scripts into short, narrative videos. You can find her on social media at @EmmaSAanne
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Simon Makin is a freelance science journalist, writer and copy editor, originally from Liverpool, now based in London. He got his PhD in computational auditory modelling before jumping ship on academia and reskilling with an NCTJ journalism diploma. He has published news in New Scientist, Nature, Scientific American, and The Economist, as well as features in Nature Outlooks, New Scientist, Scientific American Mind, Spectrum, and others, online and in print. He specialises in brains, reporting on cutting-edge neuroscience, psychiatric genetics, and cognitive psychology, with a particular interest in raising awareness and dispelling stigma by communicating the complexities of mental health. He also covers the life sciences more broadly and technology where it intersects with mind or health. He is a keen poker player, having managed to fluke his way into the main event of the World Series of Poker several years ago
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