Happy Ada Lovelace Day – a celebration of women science writers

I’m taking a slightly different tack. I’m sharing the names of women who tell stories – science writers whose work I admire. (If anyone’s wondering, here’s the intensely scientific method I used to compile the list: I sat down, wrote names, and stopped when I got to 15) Each name is accompanied with a brief reason why I think they’re awesome and some links to past work. And as I’ve said before, this is not a list of top female science writers; this is an all-female list of top science writers.

I really could go on. Okay, I will. Here are the next 25 people I wrote down.

There are undoubtedly many, many people I’ve missed, and we’re not even scratching the

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