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Anjana Ahuja

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Science writer, mostly FT. COYG.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Chemistry is steampunk. It is class warfare." A delight to interview a very worthy winner - Kit Chapman - and the other excellent finalists at last night's @royalsociety.org Trivedi Science Book Prize dinner. An inspiring night.
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A fantastic dinner @royalsociety.org to celebrate a worthy winner. The winning-themed puddings alone are worth coming for, though also very much enjoyed @valmcdermid.bsky.social speech and @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social chairing. Congratulations to all shortlisted authors - and the chef 📚
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 06/09/2026
A revolt against smart glasses may not succeed — but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, says Robert Shrimsley: ft.trib.al/rdKHRt9
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Huge story for the UK - FT scoop here on AstraZeneca in talks to combine with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb. AZN is the second biggest listed UK company and would be the bigger party in a deal. But could it redomicile to the US as part of a deal? www.ft.com/content/e902...
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AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb over $400bn tie-up
Deal would create world’s fourth-largest drugmaker by market value
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
More UK June heat records may fall today. Here’s my FT piece this week on heatwaves, 1976, adaptation, melting infrastructure and the new abnormal. www.ft.com/content/f059...
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Heatwave shows we are marinating in a crisis of our own making
Political inaction in the battle against climate change is costly and getting costlier
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A great honour to win this. Thank you @absw for being the backbone of our community and gratitude to the Financial Times for supporting me to write columns that matter. 💪🏽
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
An athlete’s second life: I went to Marseille to tell the story of how footballer Mathieu Flamini became an environmental chemistry entrepreneur. www.ft.com/content/6218...
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Elite sportsman. Entrepreneur. What drives Mathieu Flamini?
The midfielder who co-founded a biochemicals business on the difference between the locker room and the boardroom
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Really looking forward to this tonight. Come along!
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you haven't read 'Nomad Century' by @wanderinggaia.bsky.social, get yourself a copy and do.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/05/2026
How architecture can save lives ft.trib.al/i7Sagcr | opinion
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How architecture can save lives
Carefully designed homes in Tanzania have been shown to lower disease rates among children
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
an insight here in the risks of journalism in the US at the moment www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...
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First, the F.B.I. Searched Her Home. Then, She Won a Pulitzer.
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Martin Wolf really does not like cruises - comment here from under a column by @anjahuja.bsky.social on the suspected outbreak of hantavirus on one ship www.ft.com/content/9e2d...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 03/05/2026
Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for @financialtimes.com: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Or, as I would have headlined it if I hadn’t been overruled: How Trump Went to War with Bush Over US Science Spoiler: not *that* Bush
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It’s just a piece of ice, right? Errr, no. Ice has memory, as I write in the Financial Times this week. With thanks to Dr Amy King from British Antarctic Survey, for explaining the secrets locked inside ice that can be millions of years old. www.ft.com/content/b60a...
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Ancient ice’s secrets can give us a look into the future
The frozen areas of our planet act as a historical record of changes in the atmosphere and climate
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
NEW: A robot hand that can detach, crawl and grasp multiple objects - and could be an industrial boon. One researcher compares it to the helpful disembodied hand Thing T Thing from The Addams Family, rather than the scary spider-like enforcers of Minority Report. www.ft.com/content/39d6...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Anti-obesity drugs are great for losing weight. But new research finds that when users stop taking them, they tend to regain the weight and lose other health benefits - and it happens fast. How do health authorities deal with this as millions come off the medicines? www.ft.com/content/10f8...
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Obesity drug users will regain weight two years after ending medication, review finds
Experts say health authorities need plans to deal with people coming off medicines such as Ozempic and Wegovy
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy new year, folks! My take on Greenland for the FT: a slippery showman, the Napoleonic wars and why, contrary to belief, the island is no minerals Nirvana. www.ft.com/content/355e...
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Greenland is not the mining gem some think it is
The island is geologically analogous to Canada and countries in northern Europe
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 16/12/2025
UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme ft.trib.al/cknsETr
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UK set to rejoin EU’s flagship student exchange programme
Britain expected to return to Erasmus+ scheme as part of reset of relations with the bloc
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
NEW: Our three-part podcast Defying Death follows the quest to live longer from ancient times to today's frontier technologies. Great to work with the wonderful @hannahkuchler.bsky.social, @flophillips.bsky.social, @joshgd100.bsky.social & the rest of the FT pod team. www.ft.com/content/a33d...
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Defying death: The origins of ageing
Why do we age? Can it be stopped?
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My FT column today on the @harva.edu ‘super-elite’ taking on the world’s greatest unsolved scientific problems. Harvard is betting on their cohort of the curious, rather than the merely clever, to be winning Nobels 10-15 years from now. www.ft.com/content/b5cc...
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For scientists, the right questions are often the hardest
The most difficult problems can nurture the most talented researchers
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NEW: A sign of the scientific times as the UK scales back collaboration with China. Science minister Lord Vallance says the two countries have agreed to work together in the “uncontroversial” areas of health, climate, planetary sciences and agriculture. www.ft.com/content/edc0...
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UK scales back scientific collaboration with China
Science minister says countries have agreed to work together in ‘uncontroversial’ areas such as health and climate
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
NEW: Companies selling products that claim to boost health and longevity see a historic opportunity under the Trump administration. Senior officials have ties to those industries - and health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is a fan of “wellness” supplements and therapies. www.ft.com/content/ed42...
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US ‘wellness’ industry scents opportunity to go mainstream
Supplement manufacturers position themselves to exploit the Trump administration’s openness to fringe science
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? @chrischirp.bsky.social & have have written a new blog for LSE on our report blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? - Impact of Social Sciences
New research finds the arm's length bodies that underpin UK research run the risk of politicisation unless they are put on a firmer footing.
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is fascinating stuff
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
NEW: The extraordinary story of an eye implant to help people blinded by age-related retinal damage read again. One person improved by almost 12 lines of a standard eye test chart. Register here to read some FT articles free: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/c2e8...
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Scientists invent eye implant to help blind patients see again
Device improves vision of people suffering from advanced macular degeneration
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18/10/2025
Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump on.ft.com/3JlrmQR
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Massive crowds gather across US for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump
Republicans decry demonstrations as ‘anti-American’ as people voice opposition to administration’s hardline policies
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The nutrient spermidine is at the heart of a growing battle about health products touted as having anti-ageing effects. Its promoters cite evidence that it helps extend lifespan in animals - but sceptics point to the lack of research in humans. www.ft.com/content/7282...
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How one supplement sums up the uneasy science of selling youth
The potential anti-ageing effects of molecule spermidine have attracted longevity researchers and the wellness industry
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 07/10/2025
OpenAI is spending at a scale that even Silicon Valley can't quite believe, buying up 20 nuclear reactors' worth of computing power this year. But there are big questions around whether it can turn that power into profit. An #FTEdit 🧵on the ChatGPT maker’s $1tn bet on artificial intelligence 👇
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Zania Stamataki @zania-stamataki.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Freshers' Flu, the seasonal viruses that pray on vulnerable students. Great to work with @joshelgin.bsky.social and @sheencr.bsky.social on this piece for BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Freshers' flu: Why is it so hard for students to dodge?
It's not the actual flu, and it's rarely serious, but when thousands of students arrive on campus they bring a cocktail of viruses.
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is a beautiful tribute to an amazing person who truly revolutionised our understanding of non-human animals.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
On 15th Sept, billionaire & Royal Society fellow Elon Musk called for political & interethnic violence, to pre-empt (ie, begin) a civil war. ("Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."). A fortnight later, the Society expresses its disapproval
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Mark Miodownik @markmiodownik.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The winner of the Royal Society book prize 2025 is ... Masud Husain
Prize ceremony
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A lovely thread on my FT piece today! So many mentions of Soundgarden, who knew about this before the astronomers 👏🏽
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My take on #Tylenol for the FT: The White House is drifting ever farther from scientific reality. Autism has no easy answers. www.ft.com/content/72fa...
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Autism has no easy answers
Donald Trump’s promotion of an unproven link between Tylenol and neurological disorders does not help pregnant women
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Huge thanks to @mja-uk.bsky.social for last night's awards for my brilliant columnist colleague @anjahuja.bsky.social and the @financialtimes.com project on the race against time to defeat mosquito-borne diseases. Congratulations to @ian-bott.bsky.social, @sdbernard.bsky.social and Charlie Bibby!
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Honoured to be in the mix here, and congrats to all the finalists! 🙌🏽
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
@anjahuja.bsky.social here on the phenomenon called “emergent misalignment” where AI models can end up optimising for malice even when not explicitly trained to do so. www.ft.com/content/7f14...
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Big thanks to the @mja-uk.bsky.social ‬for the double shortlisting, including for this piece on mosquitoes with @ian-bott.bsky.social, Steve Bernard and Charlie Bibby. www.ft.com/content/816c... Congrats also to my wonderful columnist colleague @anjahuja.bsky.social. mjauk.org/2025/08/15/f...
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The race against time to defeat mosquito-borne diseases
Researchers are trying to tackle the threat before nature’s ‘flying needles’ become more prevalent and resistant to prevention
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Janet Yellen in FT oped - Trump’s attack on the Fed threatens US credibility. History teaches us that chaos follows when leaders undermine the independence of central banks www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The science of starvation - timely column here from @anjahuja.bsky.social on seminal 1940s study that remains hauntingly relevant today www.ft.com/content/fb0a...
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The science of starvation
A seminal 1940s study remains hauntingly relevant today
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/07/2025
The book that explains the billionaire doomers on.ft.com/3H4sp6x | opinion
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The book that explains the billionaire doomers
A niche investment text from the 1990s may explain why powerful tech leaders fixate on the apocalypse
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets Genetic shift driven by over-exploitation risks undermining populations beyond repair, according to research Register here to read some @financialtimes.com articles free: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/5bf6...
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The incredible shrinking fish: Baltic cod evolve to dodge nets
Genetic shift driven by over-exploitation risks undermining populations beyond repair, according to research
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Top chemist gives back Royal Society medal, in deepening Musk fallout. @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Exclusive @ft by @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social and me. www.ft.com/content/8778...
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Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire
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Margaret Harris @drmlharris.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I also skeeted about this conference while it was happening: bsky.app/profile/drml...
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...
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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.
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Anjana Ahuja @anjahuja.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is on everyone who voted to confirm him, despite his track record. People fail to acknowledge the obvious when their privilege depends on being blind.
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Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com · 21/05/2025
If an animal could speak, would we listen? Fascinating column by @anjahuja.bsky.social on.ft.com/4kwGAzC
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If an animal could speak, would we listen?
[FREE TO READ] A prize aimed at cracking interspecies communication could make humans think differently about the welfare of other creatures
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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
NEW: EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs Europe’s 133mn swine could become ‘dangerous virus laboratory', mixing bird and human influenzas to create pathogens transmissible between people. Register with @financialtimes.com here: www.ft.com/register www.ft.com/content/9c16...
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EU food safety chief warns of bird flu threat to pigs
Europe’s swine herds could become a ‘dangerous virus laboratory’, Bernhard Url says
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