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Kat Arney
Born
Katharine Luisa Arney

Italy
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Known forScience blogging
Science podcasts
Scientific career
FieldsCancer research
Institutions
ThesisEpigenetic modification in the mouse zygote and regulation of imprinted genes (2002)
Doctoral advisorAzim Surani[1]
Other academic advisorsAmanda Fisher[1]
Websitekatarney.wordpress.com

Katharine Luisa Arney is a British

BBC and others.[9][10]

Education

Arney was educated at the

postdoctoral research at Imperial College London working in the laboratory of Amanda Fisher.[1][14][15]

Career

Arney is a strong advocate for involvement of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but "hates pink" - she considers attempts to make science look more "girlie" to be patronising and unnecessary.[16]

From 2004 to 2016 she was science communications manager for Cancer Research UK.[17] One notable success in this role was the "#NoMakeupSelfie" hashtag as it trended in August 2014; this was noted by CRUK's social media team who used a photograph of Arney – one of the charity's main media spokespeople – to publicise the SMS number for donations. After more than 5 million views, the hashtag raised in excess of £8 million for Cancer Research UK.[18]

Her first book, Herding Hemingway’s Cats, which was published in January 2016 by Bloomsbury Publishing, covers the state of knowledge of the human genome, the advances made since the 1950s and what remains unknown. It also addresses misconceptions about epigenetics and non-DNA inheritance.[19][20]

In 2020 she published the book Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution, and the New Science of Life's Oldest Betrayal.[21]

Her sister Helen Arney is a musician with whom she sometimes collaborates.[22]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Arney, Kat (2010). "Ada Lovelace day – Professor Amanda Fisher". katarney.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 16 November 2013.
  2. ^ Telling tales about science , Women in Science and Engineering Campaign.
  3. ^ "First Create the Media".
  4. CSICOP
    . 22 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Did the Victorians Ruin the World". BBC.
  6. ^ "Articles by Kat Arney at Science magazine". sciencemag.org. AAAS. 4 December 2012.
  7. ^ "Articles by Kat Arney at The Guardian". The Guardian. London.
  8. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(15)31765-6
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  9. ^ "Articles by Kat Arney at Cancer Research UK". cancerresearchuk.org.
  10. ^ "Kat Arney". Education in Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  11. OCLC 894595629
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  12. PMID 11417896
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  13. PMID 12493244
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  14. PMID 15331660
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  15. ^ Kat Arney's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  16. Times Educational Supplement
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  17. ^ speaker profile, NCRI conference
  18. ^ The lessons that CRUK learned from nomakeupselfies, Third Sector.
  19. ^ Anon (2016). "Nonfiction Book Review: Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work by Kat Arney". Publishers Weekly.
  20. ISBN 978-1-4729-1004-2
  21. ISBN 978-1-950665-51-8
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  22. ^ "Kat Arney | Author | Education in Chemistry".
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