Lovely detailed reviews in Science Magazine and The Wall Street Journal this week, ahead of the publication of THE GOOD VIRUS in the US next week! #phages

The US edition of THE GOOD VIRUS (featuring two very friendly #phages having a cuddle) looks great! It's available from all good North American booksellers from tomorrow! wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

"A colorful redemption story...Ireland approaches the subject of his first book with curiosity and passion...delivering a deft narrative that is rich and approachable" - The New York bloody Times nytimes.com/2023/08/15/boo…

Basically the only bit of good news I’ve heard from the UK government in months, and it’s them undoing a stupid mistake they made

'One of the best books of any genre that I've read in 2023, this superbly-written book ... will fascinate absolutely everyone' says Forbes I don't think quotes come better than this... This book has had the most outstanding reviews I have ever seen. Congrats Tom Ireland 🌟

Nice to be asked by Shepherd.com 📚 to provide a book list for their interesting book-discovery website. I chose to do my top 5 "science books about way more than science", with books by authors including Will Storr and Mark O’Connell shepherd.com/best-books/sci…

Roughly half of the 2 million+ people in Gaza are under 18. Donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund: pcrf.net

In a shocking turn of events, some viruses are actually good for people. They can even help us *fight* disease. 🤯 Hear more about our unexpected allies on the SEASON FINALE of #Incubation with Jacob Goldstein, Ben Chan, and Tom Ireland: pushkin.fm/podcasts/incub…

Woohoo!

Very nice to see Tom Ireland's THE GOOD VIRUS in The Times and The Sunday Times best science books of the year!

The latest issue of The Biologist is out this weekend! Our cover feature is on the amazing diversity of killer whale cultures - from orca pods that help whalers to those that ram boats. Plus: Kevin Mitchell on free will and Athene Donald on how to get more women in science

The audio log you find in a trashed office in a sci-fi horror game:

In our latest piece, Tom Ireland, author of the book, "The Good Virus," explains why. Tom also highlights how synthetic biology and computational algorithms are resolving some of the long-standing challenges in using phage to treat patients. Read: asimov.press/p/scaling-phag…

Since reading Tom Ireland's book earlier this year, I've been captivated by the potential of phages both in and as therapeutics. But where are they? For Asimov Press, we asked Tom to tell us what it would take to scale phage therapy. Read it here: asimov.press/p/scaling-phag…

Paperback of THE GOOD VIRUS incoming!

Great to see readers loving the latest Biologist cover (and its paper wrap!)

This outstanding book is out in paperback today - a Waterstones science book of the year and a book of the year for The Times and The Sunday Times - with reviews to match. It's also just a complete joy to read, thanks to the brilliance, wit and vision of Tom Ireland. Hooray for #phages 🦠

🦠'One of the best books of any genre that I've read in 2023' Forbes 🦠'Luxury-class science writing' The Telegraph 🦠'The brighter side of the viral world...a delight' nature 🦠'Original, eye-opening and grippingly told' New Scientist 🦠'Fascinating' New York Times Books Out today!

Happening now. Happening fast. Guardian reporting wind/solar overtakes fossil fuel electricity generation in EU in first half of this year…

I wrote something for Asimov Press on the different types of artificial womb being developed by research groups across the world. Most are simple life-support systems for very premature babies, but others are far more ambitious...