David Robson

David Robson is an award-winning science writer. After graduating in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2006, he began his career as a news reporter for a group of scientific journals, before joining New Scientist magazine as their youngest ever features editor. In 2014 he was appointed as an editor and later a senior journalist at the BBC’s science and technology website, BBC Future, where he continued to write about the stranger extremes of the human brain until becoming a full-time freelance writer in late 2019.  David continues to write regular columns for the BBC and New Scientist, and he is a frequent contributor to the Guardian. His writing has also appeared in the Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Monocle, Men’s Health, and the Atlantic. David’s first book, The Intelligence Trap, was published by Hodder & Stoughton (UK) and W.W. Norton (USA) in 2019; it has been sold for translation in more than 20 languages. David’s second book is The Expectation Effect, published by Canongate and Henry Holt in 2022; it has been sold for translation in more than 20 languages, and won the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science. David’s third book, The Laws of Connection, was published by Canongate and Pegasus in 2024.

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