Since you all kindly told me about yourselves in the Who Are You thread, here’s me opening up my head. I recently answered some questions about science communication and why I do it for Julie Gould and her Speaking of Science blog. Julie’s kindly agreed to let me repost the answers here, but you can also find interviews with more science writers and communicators on her site, including such favourites as Virginia Hughes, Frank Swain, Jon Butterworth, and more. Anyway, here’s me:

Ed Yong

London

A clock-watching git who never gives me praise and insists that I work weekends. Also, I strongly suspect that he’s sleeping with my wife. (I’m a freelancer.)

I write. I write on my blog