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Liam Drew
@liamdrew.bsky.social
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Freelance science journalist, dad, author of two books, has a writing shed at his allotment. liamdrew.net
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · 20d
Absolutely delighted to have scooped this year’s gong for cancer research reporting.
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · 20d
An amazing night at the #mjaawards celebrating the best in UK health journalism. Holding power to account and reporting that leads to change were big themes this year. See the full list of winners on our website mjauk.org/2025/09/17/b...
BBC team wins top MJA Award for report on assisted dying
BBC team wins the headline Outstanding Contribution Award at the 2025 MJA Awards. Read our full list of all the winners
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · 29d
At our awards ceremony next week we will find out our winners but until then we will continue to celebrate the finalists! Shortlisted for the Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research are @liamdrew.bsky.social @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social and Clare Wilson 👏
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 19
Don’t stop believin’, not even while you…
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 18
Ha! Clubbing would be an unusual response..
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 17
Very happily in Paris for a few days en famille. Remembering the second time I came, 23-year-old me taking my nan on her first trip abroad… www.liamdrew.net/articles/201...
Paris with my grandmother — Liam Drew
READER’S DIGEST Liam Drew takes us along on his Parisian adventure with his grandmother and explores the importance of spending quality time with the people in your life
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 15
My entry - www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Faecal transplants can treat some cancers — but probably won’t ever be widely used
Gut microbiota could be crucial to the success or failure of immunotherapy. Donated stool might give oncologists a way to tip the balance, but the real excitement lies in what comes next.
www.nature.com
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 15
I'm absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for The Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research.
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · Aug 15
🚨 Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards are revealed today. #mjaawards mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...
Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards are announced. Winners revealed at the awards ceremony on September 17
Finalists for the 2025 Medical Journalists' Association Awards are announced. Winners revealed at the awards ceremony on September 17
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 6
Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...
Careers survey - best work
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Aug 6
Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...
Careers survey - best work
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 8
Royal Albert Hall for a WiP?
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 6
Yes, mind over matter fantasy nonsense. The efforts my relative made to keep waking and moving were desperate… .
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 6
I have a loved one with CBD too - it’s been savage. I can imagine someone having odd neurological symptoms and CBD being mooted as a *possible* cause. But my relative was way, way past the point of walking around Cornwall by the time the diagnosis was confidently made. It all stinks.
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 6
TBF, early on, CBD has much diagnostic uncertainty, without a definitive signature it’ll typically be one of several possibilities. Maybe the guy had some issues and it was cited as a possible cause but it’s very hard to see a neurologist saying someone capable of walking around Cornwall had CBD.
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 6
if I’d known CBD was at the heart of the SP, I would have read it, and I would’ve had a lot of questions. If I’d known the sequel reports that a bracing walk can reverse neurodegenerative, I’d have demanded to see those two alleged brain scans.
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jul 6
As a relative of someone with CBD, this pair can go fuck themselves.
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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · Jul 6
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

@chloehadj.bsky.social

Read more:
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
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ABSW @absw.bsky.social · Jun 16
#abswss25 #SummerSchool #hybrid
🔗 zurl.co/tUAAn

💻Panel 1 - 5 things we wish we'd known when we began our feature-writing careers

🎯Producer: Aisling Irwin

📢Speakers:
Rachel Brazil @rachelbrazil.bsky.social
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Clare Wilson @theipaper.com
Shaoni Bhattacharya
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 9
🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 7
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jun 4
This paper is wild.
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Nature @nature.com · Jun 4
Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells

https://go.nature.com/3Zh7bs7
Cancer more deadly when tumours lack Y chromosomes — and the loss could be contagious
Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells.
go.nature.com
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jun 4
A new paper in @nature.com suggests that cancer cells that have lost their Y chromosomes can induce this same mutation in nearby immune cells! And when both cell types have this mutation there's cancers are way more aggressive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Cancer more deadly when tumours lack Y chromosomes — and the loss could be contagious
Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells.
www.nature.com
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Jun 4
Or both…
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Apr 30
OA link open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
Unexplainable · Episode
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Apr 30
Open access link to podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
Unexplainable · Episode
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Apr 30
The article that inspired the podcast: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure
When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Apr 30
I spoke to Vox's Unexplainable podcast -- alongside the brilliant Jennifer French -- about the problem of people having neural implants then losing support for those devices. www.vox.com/unexplainabl...
Sorry, we left an implant in your brain
What happens if you get a life-changing device implanted…and the company that maintains it goes bankrupt?
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Liam Drew @liamdrew.bsky.social · Apr 29
If you have a Y chromosome and are approaching middle age, chances are a good chunk of your immune cells are beginning to lose this chromosome - and that's likely bad for your health. It might help explain why men die earlier than women... My latest www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health
The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now, research is revealing the long-term impacts this can have on disease risk and life expectancy
www.newscientist.com
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