Robin Lloyd

Locum News Editor
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Robin Lloyd is a freelance writer, editor and educator, as well as a contributing editor for Scientific American and an adjunct professor at New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a B.A. from Smith College. She completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1998-1999 academic year.

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Sounding out ultrasounds; name game; geek gathering

By Robin Lloyd
9 September 2016 | 5 min read
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Calming remedies; labor lessons; women wanted

By Robin Lloyd
29 July 2016 | 5 min read
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Fake facilitation; third strike; Pokémon passion

By Robin Lloyd
22 July 2016 | 5 min read
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Brexit break-ups; little impact; micro medicine

By Robin Lloyd
15 July 2016 | 5 min read
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CRISPR medicine; inclusive experiments; autism in Egypt

By Robin Lloyd
24 June 2016 | 4 min read

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