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Rachael Pells

@RachaelPells

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Award-winning journalist, author of Genomics: How genome sequencing will change our lives https://t.co/zqx0Dlye4m Not the education editor for the Independent.

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Rachael Pells
9 months
Hello! I write a newsletter now, like everyone else you know:
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Rachael Pells
2 months
@cira_islam Hola, buen día. Soy periodista de Londres, podemos hablar en DM? Mi mensajes están abiertos
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Rachael Pells
3 months
@Richvn @ScienceMagazine You reviewed the book Richard, so you'll know that his point was really that it stands for lots of things! And just happened to have the same letter as Smits too 😉
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Rachael Pells
4 months
So pleased to share the news that @Nature is in 1st place to win an Anthem Community Voice Award! 👏 I love writing these "Where I Work" profile pieces – see some of my favourite interviews here: And vote here: #AnthemAwards
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Rachael Pells
6 months
Annual pre-A level results day public service announcement to say: I don't write about schools, I don't work for the @Independent, and I haven't written about schools for the Independent since 2017. (78 school/results day PR emails this week and counting!)
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Rachael Pells
7 months
Heaven is a compost loo – no seriously, why are they not everywhere yet? Dispatches from the long road through central Ecuador south to the Peruvian north coast.
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Rachael Pells
8 months
An ode to the menu del dia: latest dispatch from South America 🇪🇨
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Rachael Pells
8 months
@ProfDavidWilson @mjauk Thank you David!
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Rachael Pells
9 months
The subtle art of doing laundry while mobile
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Rachael Pells
9 months
RT @mjauk: Always a hotly contested award, last year's winner of Freelance of the Year was @RachaelPells for her work published in @MailOnl
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Rachael Pells
9 months
It's about my life these days travelling and freelancing around South America. But if that sounds unbearable, don't worry – there are plenty of occasions when it goes wrong. This week I wrote about the perils of Airbnb (and the people who host them)...
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Rachael Pells
10 months
RT @kovesi1: Burning it all down. What a legacy they will leave behind.
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Rachael Pells
1 year
@bilgribs Sorry, been travelling and missed this message! Think my DMs are open
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Rachael Pells
1 year
Hi @Tandem_Bank, two weeks of trying to contact you and 10 days locked out of my account, no reply via email, phone, app or on here. What gives?
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Rachael Pells
1 year
If you're looking for a stocking filler for a curious brain this Christmas... Allow me to plug my book, the Wired Guide to Genomics! Available in all good and bad bookshops 🤓🔬📚
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Rachael Pells
3 years
My book on genomics is published today! 🥳 It's a short, accessible @WIRED guide to genome sequencing, how it works and the impact it will have on health, climate, disease control and so much more. You can order it from @PenguinUKBooks and all the usual websites & bookshops.
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Rachael Pells
1 year
My latest for @Nature – weird and wonderful one-of-a-kind machines. Many thanks to @TheCrick & @ErikaDeBene, @NPL, @DusanMateric
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Kendall Powell
1 year
Wild, weird machines scientists built to get the #research job done. As told to @RachaelPells for @NatureCareers If you want something done right, do it yourself: the scientists who build their own tools
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Rachael Pells
1 year
Wrote a report from Cordoba, Argentina, where last night everyone dug out their best toy chainsaws and lion masks to celebrate the election results...(£) The Madman, The Wig and The Lion: Argentina’s new far-right president Javier Milei
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Rachael Pells
1 year
RT @musicatbrookes: We are sad to share with you the news that Oxford Brookes University has decided to close its music department. Below a…
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Rachael Pells
1 year
RT @ubiquitypress: What better time than #OAWeek23 to read the story of #OA? 'Plan S for Shock' by Robert Jan Smits and @RachaelPells explo…
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