Award-winning journalist & author of Genomics: How genome sequencing will change our lives: https://nitter.cf/t.co/zqx0Dlye4m These days writing from Latin America (🇨🇴)
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Hello! I write a newsletter now, like everyone else you know: rachaelpells.substack.com/
"What students think about my teaching doesn’t matter. Am I wrong?" – my latest for @Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
‘Is that it?’: research sector reacts to chancellor’s autumn budget researchprofessionalnews.com…
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Javier Milei’s anti-Arab culture war
"Argentina has not seen pro-Palestine rallies of the likes organised in Europe and the US since the war in Gaza began."
🌎 @RachaelPells newstatesman.com/internation…
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Javier Milei’s anti-Arab culture war
Minorities in Argentina have reported a surge in hostility since the far-right president came to power.
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So pleased to share the news that @Nature is in 1st place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 I love writing these "Where I Work" profile pieces – see some of my favourite interviews here: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
And vote here: celebrate.anthemawards.com/P… #AnthemAwards
Annual pre-A level results day public service announcement to say: I don't write about schools, I don't work for the @Independent, and I haven't written about schools for the Independent since 2017.
(78 school/results day PR emails this week and counting!)
Heaven is a compost loo – no seriously, why are they not everywhere yet? Dispatches from the long road through central Ecuador south to the Peruvian north coast.
open.substack.com/pub/rachae…
An ode to the menu del dia: latest dispatch from South America 🇪🇨open.substack.com/pub/rachae…
I never in a million years expected to win freelance journalist of the year at the last @mjauk awards – I only did so after an editor pushed me to. Then a prize, lots of lovely opportunities and kind words from strangers followed. If you're thinking of entering just do it!
Freelance journalists are often the unsung stars of health and medical journalism.
So we celebrate these versatile all-rounders at the #MJAAwards.
Past winners of our freelance award include @FayeKirklandGP @Emmajourno @taylor_rosie and @RachaelPells
mjauk.org/enter-the-2024-mja…
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Always a hotly contested award, last year's winner of Freelance of the Year was @RachaelPells for her work published in @MailOnline @Nature and @WiredUK.
This year could it be you? #MJAAwards
mjauk.org/enter-the-2024-mja…
It's about my life these days travelling and freelancing around South America. But if that sounds unbearable, don't worry – there are plenty of occasions when it goes wrong. This week I wrote about the perils of Airbnb (and the people who host them)... open.substack.com/pub/rachae…
Hi @Tandem_Bank, two weeks of trying to contact you and 10 days locked out of my account, no reply via email, phone, app or on here. What gives?
If you're looking for a stocking filler for a curious brain this Christmas... Allow me to plug my book, the Wired Guide to Genomics! Available in all good and bad bookshops 🤓🔬📚
waterstones.com/book/genomic…
My book on genomics is published today! 🥳
It's a short, accessible @WIRED guide to genome sequencing, how it works and the impact it will have on health, climate, disease control and so much more.
You can order it from @PenguinUKBooks and all the usual websites & bookshops.
My latest for @Nature – weird and wonderful one-of-a-kind machines. Many thanks to @TheCrick & @ErikaDeBene, @NPL, @DusanMateric
Wild, weird machines scientists built to get the #research job done. As told to @RachaelPells for @NatureCareers
If you want something done right, do it yourself: the scientists who build their own tools nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Wrote a report from Cordoba, Argentina, where last night everyone dug out their best toy chainsaws and lion masks to celebrate the election results...(£)
The Madman, The Wig and The Lion: Argentina’s new far-right president Javier Milei independent.co.uk/news/world…
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We are sad to share with you the news that Oxford Brookes University has decided to close its music department. Below a statement from the music team - we are all devastated.
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What better time than #OAWeek23 to read the story of #OA? 'Plan S for Shock' by Robert Jan Smits and @RachaelPells explores how the bold Plan S initiative kickstarted a world-wide shift in attitudes towards #OA. Read it in #openaccess now: buff.ly/3Q2TXKa #openbooks🔓📖
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“I thought, there has to be a faster way to do this.” @RachaelPells writes about how to integrate #AI into your bioinformatics analyses. With @CiminiLab @GaelVaroquaux @scikit_learn @GarciaFossa @VirginieUhlmann and more. go.nature.com/48Asg3X