I Contain Multitudes, My First Book, Is Out In One Month

It’s nearly here! In just over a month, my first book—I Contain Multitudes—will be published in the US, with the UK edition following shortly after. It’s about the astonishing partnerships between animals and microbes. It’s a natural history book about the hidden side to humans, wasps, squid, hyenas, beetles, koalas, worms, and more. It’s like a David Attenborough series shot through a really good microscope. You can pre-order it here.

Coincidentally, the publication date of August 9th is a fairly momentous one for me. It (more or less) marks the ten year anniversary of my career as a science writer, which began when I created this blog in August 2006. Two of my very first pieces were about microbe transplants

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