I am a member of the Association of British Science Writers.

New Scientist: I wrote regularly on biomedical science and women in science during the 1980s and 1990s. The most recent articles were 'Mad brains and the prion heresy'; 'Parkinson's: a suitable case for treatment?'; and 'The human worm'.

Oxford Today: I became science editor from the first volume in 1989, and had a stint as editor from 2000-2007. Until recently I continued to contribute articles on science and related issues. Some of the more recent ones are 'The shape of things to come?' (Hilary 2008), 'All eyes on the heavens' (Michaelmas 2008) and 'A refuge for the persecuted, release for the fettered mind' (Trinity 2009).

Book reviews

• 'Prime mates', Guardian Review, 25 July 2009
• 'Under the microscope', Guardian Review, 25 April 2009
• 'The number one', Guardian Review, 14 February 2009
• 'Code breaker', Guardian Review, 2 August 2008
• 'What's it all about?', Guardian Review, 19 January 2008
• 'Learning the lessons of life', Guardian Review, 27 October 2007
• 'The fly boys and the godfather of zebrafish', Guardian Review, 2 June 2007
• 'The Colossus of Codes', Guardian Review, 29 July, 2006

Other recent articles

• 'Max Perutz and the SPSL', Proceedings of the British Academy 169, 87-98, 2011
• 'The exception and the rule: women and the Royal Society 1945-2010', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 20 September 2010
• 'The making of an exceptional scientist', Nature, 29 April 2010
• 'Our changing body image', Nature, 25 June 2009
• 'Science's new battle lines', Nature, 7 May 2009
• 'The art of laboratory design', Nature, 29 January 2009
• 'A scientist's life for me', Nature, 16 October 2008