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the scientists

Eighty-one scientists have written 76 essays in response to the question What are you optimistic about?

They include engineer Julia King, structural biologist Michael Overduin, oncologists Philip Johnson, Nick James, and the haematologist Paul Moss, endocrinologist and novelist Chris McCabe, biomedical scientist Roslyn Bill, immunologist Janet Lord, Science of Discworld author and reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, pathobiologist Robin May, cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon, biomechanics and orangutan specialist Susannah Thorpe, enzyme chemist Tim Bugg, optometrist James Wolffsohn, urban ecologist Lucy Bastin, botanist Miriam Gifford, forensic linguistics expert Tim Grant, computer scientist Russell Beale . . .

The picture (above) is of Roslyn Bill and her research team at Aston University, reproduced here with her kind permission.