Thread by @AdamRutherford

Crikey. I am extremely thrilled to be awarded the @royalsociety David Attenborough Prize. Like so many of us, he was my first inspiration in science, and triggered a lifelong love of evolution and genetics which continues to burn royalsociety.org/grants-schemes…

Such fine company too, with @sophiescott Jocelyn Bell Burnell, @genemodeller, @SerenaNikZainal and loads of others. Congratulations!

Thanks to all the people who gave me opportunities, in science and in talking about science. There are too many to name, but Georgina Henry at the Guardian, Deborah Cohen in the BBC Radio Science Unit, my editor @jennyjennylord, my supervisors Jane Sowden and Hazel Smith…

… and all of the millions of scientists who did amazing work that I could talk and write about. @matthewcobb @ewanbirney @theAliceRoberts @FryRsquared. Thank you all.

Now to finish my next book. These damn things don’t write themselves. ‘Control: the dark history and the troubling present of eugenics’ will be out in the Spring.