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🧬 Landmark or footnote? Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene turns 50. Has evolutionary biology moved on, or are we still trapped by its seductive metaphor? Time to challenge a scientific classic. Read more 👇niche.org.uk/selfish-gene

Who will replace the scientists we lose to retirement? As experience walks out the door, AI reshapes research and scientific discoveries become harder to understand, are we risking a future where we can create science we cannot explain? niche.org.uk/tomorrow-scienc…

Medical writers should be writing, not wrestling with Word! Poor data formatting wastes time and creates avoidable errors. Let’s spend less time fixing documents and more time getting the science right. niche.org.uk/data-formatting

The Lancet maps 17 threats to humanity’s health. But what if those with the power to act refuse to look? 🌍 A little science, a little Don’t Look Up, and an uncomfortable question: who gets to escape when the world goes wrong? niche.org.uk/dont-look

AI can generate fluent prose in seconds. But can it think independently, challenge assumptions or find a distinctive voice? Medical writers need to do more than write other people’s science. Time to find your voice! ✍️ niche.org.uk/writers-voice

Big words sound impressive. But when it really matters, we reach for tiny ones: YES. NO. STOP. GO. LOVE. Why do these little words pack such a punch? 🧠💥 The science is fascinating: niche.org.uk/word-power

The global race to first patient is changing. 🏁 The FDA is speeding up the front door, but Australia 🇦🇺, China 🇨🇳, Europe 🇪🇺 and the UK 🇬🇧 are redesigning the road behind it. Who gets the 🏆? niche.org.uk/fda-race

AI can make us faster, but are we becoming less capable? We say critical thinking needs practice, mistakes and effort. In the AI age, our most valuable currency is the ability to think for ourselves: niche.org.uk/critical-thinki…

Europe is creating 'fast tracks' for clinical trials. Great news? Perhaps. But if there’s a fast lane, what happens to everyone else? And does faster approval really mean faster first patient in? Find out: niche.org.uk/fast-track

Clinical trials are conservative. But a revolution is brewing—and it's NOT AI. Organoids, real-time regulation & the death of "one-size-fits-all" phases. The methodology must fit the medicine. 🧬 niche.org.uk/clinical-shakeu…

Your next reader might not be human. AI is increasingly standing between scientists and the literature, deciding what gets found, summarised and believed. So what happens when AI becomes the reader? And what does that mean for scientific writing? niche.org.uk/ai-audience

Europe spent years harmonising away its diversity. But what if that "fragmentation" was actually offering choice—and choice has value? New piece on CTIS, clinical trials & Europe's lost advantage. Read: niche.org.uk/europes-problem

AI watermarks promise to tell us who used AI. But can they actually tell us who is responsible? 🤔 Detection isn't provenance. Provenance isn't accountability. And a probability score isn't proof. So where do we stand with AI watermarking? niche.org.uk/ai-watermarks

Why does some science spread like wildfire — while brilliant science disappears? Psychology. Emotion. Novelty. Storytelling. Algorithms. Luck. So what can you learn from the science of virality? The answer may surprise you: niche.org.uk/viral

Publish-and-forget is dead. 🪦 In an age of information overload and AI-generated content, getting science published is the easy bit. The real challenge? Making sure the right people find it. Read on: niche.org.uk/dissemination

What if Phase 1 is becoming obsolete? AI, digital twins, organoids and in silico modelling are changing how we predict drug behaviour before exposing people to experimental medicines. Is clinical pharmacology being redefined—or replaced? 👇niche.org.uk/redefining-clin…

The irony: 40+ years learning to write clearly, precisely and objectively, I’m now told I write “like AI”. Here’s the rub: AI didn’t teach me to write. I helped teach it. When did good writing become evidence of a machine? niche.org.uk/irony-clarity #ScientificWriting #Authorship

Evidence isn’t optional. The MMR vaccine has been scrutinised across decades—and the evidence is consistent. So why are we still debating what science has repeatedly rejected? When politics starts rewriting evidence, public health pays the price. 👇 niche.org.uk/nero

Clinical Trial Registries: The Bit Everyone Thinks Is Someone Else’s Job! Our latest Insider’s Insight is relevant to everyone involved in clinical research. Do you know just what you need to do? Read on: niche.org.uk/signup-clinical…