Gilead Amit
@gileadamit
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Deputy science editor @TheEconomist. Former deputy feature head @NewScientist. Quondam physicist. Views my own. [email protected]
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Joined July 2009
RT @gileadamit: Pleased to say these temporary editing responsibilities have now become permanent. Very open to hearing from any freelance….
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Pleased to say these temporary editing responsibilities have now become permanent. Very open to hearing from any freelance writers who’d like to see their work in our pages. Email in bio.
I’ll be editing the Science and Technology section @TheEconomist on and off over the next few months, so very keen to receive pitches from freelancers who get our style. Feel free to pass on.
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RT @hvthomson: 📢📢📢I've been working on a one-of-a-kind newsletter and it's about to launch! It's a weekly email packed full of story ideas,….
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RT @TheEconomist: From faecal transplants to microbial medicines, our “Babbage” podcast explores the microbiome treatments that could chang….
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Our podcast on science and technology. From faecal transplants to microbial medicines, we consider the prospects for a new kind of medicine
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Email only, please. I’m on leave until April 8th but will aim to get back to you then.
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I’ll be editing the Science and Technology section @TheEconomist on and off over the next few months, so very keen to receive pitches from freelancers who get our style. Feel free to pass on.
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Reverse engineering these is always highly entertaining. “Irregular backwoods” for “random forest”, I presume?.
😵 ‘Optical and Quantum Electronics’: 48+ unreliable articles riddled with #TorturedPhrases, mostly published in 2023. I suspect papermill submissions + compromised peer review. Hereby notifying @SpringerNature and Editors: @UniofNottingham 🇬🇧 @IL_PIB 🇵🇱.
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RT @gileadamit: We're also looking for a tech-focused science correspondent to join the team @TheEconomist. Do share! .
economist.com
An opportunity to join our editorial staff in London
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We're also looking for a tech-focused science correspondent to join the team @TheEconomist. Do share!
economist.com
An opportunity to join our editorial staff in London
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RT @gileadamit: We @TheEconomist are once again offering our paid science/tech section internship. It’s a great opportunity with a fantasti….
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We invite applications for the 2024 Richard Casement internship
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We @TheEconomist are once again offering our paid science/tech section internship. It’s a great opportunity with a fantastic team, and, as ever, my DMs are open to anyone who wants to chat informally about the role. Do share!.
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We invite applications for the 2024 Richard Casement internship
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RT @TheEconomist: Could phage therapy help combat antimicrobial resistance? Our “Babbage” podcast investigates, with @alokjha and @gileadam….
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Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we explore the potential of bacteriophages—viruses that can destroy superbugs—and why their time might have come
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This is once again open, and very worth applying for. DMs open for the curious!.
Are you a budding science writer? . We're looking for an intern to work with us on the Science and technology desk at @TheEconomist. You'll spend 3 months with us in London, working on articles, newsletters, podcasts, films, and lots more. Details here:
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RT @TheEconomist: “There is a huge amount of private information that we disclose accidentally every time we use the bathroom.” @gileadamit….
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The potential benefits are enormous, but as our affiliated leader points out, making them come about requires careful handling of privacy concerns
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Wastewater surveillance is a cheap tool to spot health problems, but it is open to abuse
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For the last few weeks I've been knee-deep in sewage, reporting how wastewater surveillance could revolutionise public health in cities from London to Bangalore and Dhaka to San Diego
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Monitoring wastewater can help track diseases, drugs and even explosives
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Has this year’s extreme weather been due to climate change, La Niña, or both?. Short answer: Yes. Long answer:
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RT @niallfirth: How a single paper in 2018 on the idea that gender dysphoria can spread among young people helped galvanize the anti-trans….
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A single paper on the notion that gender dysphoria can spread among young people helped galvanize an anti-trans movement.
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RT @TalbotCaitlin: Rising fossil-fuel emissions are ruining carbon dating. Gone is our wonderful ability to date modern things: whiskies, f….
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It will get harder to provide a timestamp for anything from human remains to aged whiskies
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