Celia Ford
Former Future Perfect Fellow
Celia Ford was a Future Perfect Fellow focusing on the intersection of emerging technology, culture, and the mind. She is also fascinated by the process of science, the institutions that fund it, and the people who make it happen.
Before joining Vox, Celia was a freelance contributor and American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellow at Wired, where she wrote about neuroscience, biotech, and public health. Previously, she covered the craft of science writing as an Early Career Fellow at The Open Notebook.
Celia received a bachelor’s degree in cognitive neuroscience from Brown University and a PhD in neuroscience from the University of California Berkeley. She is based in the California Bay Area, where she loves to play music, dance, and kiss her cat on the forehead.
You can send questions, story ideas, and tips to celia.ford@voxmedia.com. She’s sporadically on Twitter at @cogcelia.
Latest articles by Celia Ford
Science depends on animal testing. But the work comes at a steep, hidden cost.
Academia runs on underpaid, overworked PhD students. It doesn’t have to.
Digital dependence is reshaping our brains. But we can fight it.
Why we should start caring about the right to brain privacy now.
Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
We have two vaccines now. What’s the hold up?
Cuts to science spending may save lab animals — at a cost.
It’s not cocaine, but it can be just about anything else — except a good idea.
We can invest in men’s well-being without undermining women.
Whatever you do, don’t call the Black in Neuro founder “resilient.”