Credit: Arielle Ray

 

I’m the author of Empire of the Mind, which is published by Bloomsbury in the US and Profile in the UK, and is supported by a New America fellowship.

I’m also a features editor at New Scientist magazine, focused on health and neuroscience. I have a background in philosophy and am interested in exploring the unquestioned ideas behind scientific narratives, while also holding powerful institutions to account.

My reporting on the coronavirus pandemic was recognized by several award nominations: I was a British Journalism Awards and Medical Journalists’ Association Awards finalist for an investigation into COVAX, which I worked on with TBIJ, and an EPPY awards finalist for a series exposing huge gaps in Covid-19 healthcare access. I was also a Livingston Awards finalist for reporting on how data harvesting drives political propaganda in Brazil.

Before joining New Scientist, I worked as an investigative journalist at STAT and Quartz, and a features writer at The Daily Telegraph. A Telegraph series I reported on sexual abuse at university successfully pushed the British government to strengthen legal protections for students.

I regularly speak on radio, podcasts, and TV, and have lectured at philosophy and journalism conferences. When I’m not reporting, I love swimming, theatre, and hanging out with Jeremy Bentham’s embalmed corpse.