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David Robson is an award-winning science writer specialising in the human brain, body and behaviour.

After graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, he worked as a features editor at New ¾«¶«´«Ã½ for five years, before moving to BBC Future, where he was a senior journalist for five years. His writing has also appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Aeon, Men’s Health and many more outlets.

In 2021, David received awards from the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) and the UK Medical Journalists’ Association (MJA) for his writing on misinformation and risk communication during the covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, he won Mental Health Story of the Year at the MJA annual awards and was a finalist for the Best British Science Journalist of the Year award from the ABSW.

David’s latest book is The Laws of Connection: 13 social strategies that will transform your life, published by Canongate (UK) and Pegasus (US) in 2024. He is also the author of The Expectation Effect (2022) and The Intelligence Trap (2019).