A graphic with a dark blue background, featuring a photo of author Matthew Cobb and the cover of his book Crick: A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain. The text on the graphic reads, 'Monday 4th May, Cidermill Theatre, 2pm. Literature Festival Chipping Campden 2026.' In the bottom left-hand corner is the following author bio: 'Matthew Cobb reveals the man who changed our view of life forever. Crick is the first major biography of one of the twentieth century's most exciting minds'. The Borzoi Bookshop logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.

Discover the man behind the double-helix...

Join author of #Crick @matthewcobb.bsky.social at @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social festival next month. Details below!

📍 Cidermill Theatre, Chipping Campden
📅 Monday 4th May
🕑️ 2pm
🎟️ Via link: tinyurl.com/mwtd63yh

With us in the #Cotswolds in May @matthewcobb.bsky.social #Crick #🧪 @profilebooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky and @timcoulson.bsky.social
Tickets and more info here: www.campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/e...

The Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize awards The Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize awards £2,500 to the judges’ choice of the best first biography published each year.

Congratulations to @matthewcobb.bsky.social and #Crick on winning 1st prize in the Hatchards & Biographers' Club First Biography Awards!

It was a great annual #Crick #Rare Disease Conference 2026. Learned so much new, made novel contacts, and of course, discussed #precision #therapies for #vascular, and more specifically, #lymphatic anomalies. Organised by @Veronica K. #VASCERN #vascapa #hevas #eurordis #CMTC

Plakkaat Rosalind Franklin palvelion met erboven de foto van het difractie patroon van DNA wat tot de opheldering van de stuktuur heeft geleid

Francis Crick auditorium Nobelprijswinnaar voor ontrafelen van de stuktuur van DNA

Ik was in Engeland, op wetenschappelijk heilige grond, bij het centrum waar begin jaren 90 het genoom van de mens werd gesequenced. Rond 2003 was het af. DNA helden werden geëerd 🧬👩‍🔬(ik was 🧬👩‍🔬 voor ik 🍆👩‍🔬 werd) #hinxton #sanger #crick #franklin

Hi @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social with us in May #Crick @matthewcobb.bsky.social General bookings from1st Feb
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In Off Topic Podcast Season 3 with Ufone 4G, we discuss talented Pakistani cricketer Ali Raza, a skilled right-arm medium fast bowler representing the Sialkot cricket team. #Crick

At 485 pages ex notes etc #CRICK by @matthewcobb.bsky.social is an amazing biography and he'll be with us in May
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Matthew on his short books 👇 #Blueskybooks

4 May @matthewcobb.bsky.social discusses #Crick with @timcoulson.bsky.social General booking opens 1st Feb
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If we ever get a chance to refactor the #humangenome ,I vote for putting all of the genes on the top strand. #genomics #bioinformatics

The Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize awards The Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize awards £2,500 to the judges’ choice of the best first biography published each year.

We are incredibly proud that #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @hatchards.bsky.social and Biographers' Club First Biography Prize!

Take a look at the full shortlist below ⬇️

Getting to live on the Hungry Run Creek for thirty years was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. #life #lifechoices #hungryruncreek #creeklife #crick #creeks #cricks #pennsylvaniacreeks #pennsylvania #centralpennsylvania #freedomavenue #burnham #woodland #nature

I was privileged to live along the Hungry Run Creek in Burnham for thirty years. It was a nature preserve in the backyard. 1995. #creek #creeks #crick #cricks #pennsylvania #outdoors #nature #naturepreserve #outofdoors #winter #snow #cold #hill #ridge #burnham #1990s

The best science and nature books of 2025 From the threat of superintelligent AI to the dangers of overdiagnosis; plus the evolution of language and the restless genius of Francis Crick

'No Christmas book list is complete, of course, without a doorstopper biography – and, in Crick, Matthew Cobb gives us the definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science'

#Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social is on @theguardian.com's best science books of 2026 list.

Book gift ideas this Christmas A round-up of newly published titles this festive season

Are you looking for Christmas present ideas? Check out @churchtimes.bsky.social's bookish recommendations, including the biography of the great scientist #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Chris Newens' gastronomic journey around Parisian cuisine #MoveableFeasts 📚🎁

Crick: A Mind in Motion by Matthew Cobb review – the charismatic philanderer who changed science Genius and arrogance play leading roles in a new biography of the man who helped uncover the structure of DNA

'An impressive work of research and scholarship'

A brilliant @theguardian.com review for #Crick, @matthewcobb.bsky.social's biography of the man who helped to discover the structure of DNA 🧬

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Genes and hands: mapping character and health Alison Bashford, Matthew Cobb and Charlotte Houldcroft with Adam Rutherford.

Start the week with #Crick author @matthewcobb.bsky.social as he discusses the history and future of genetic science 🧬

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One of our 2026 authors 👇@matthewcobb.bsky.social #Crick

My review of #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social has been published online by @science.org. The book is lucid, beautifully crafted, and compelling. It will instantly become the definitive guide to this extraordinary individual’s life and work.

Surprising new biography of Francis Crick unravels the story of DNA Francis Crick's biography is full of surprises as author Matthew Cobb reveals the life and work of the co-discoverer of DNA's structure, finds Michael Le Page

'If you are interested in how DNA’s structure was discovered and what happened next, this is the book to read … Gripping'

A brilliant @newscientist.com review for #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social 🧬

Everyone knows the story of Photo 51, but who remembers Florence Bell? #DNA #Franklin #Watson #Crick

X-ray diffraction photograph of DNA fibres taken by Florence Bell in 1938

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About 30 years ago, I read an autobiography of #Crick and later The Double Helix from #Watson. They left me with very different impressions of the characters.

Crick was a genius and somewhat pompously seemed to agree with that. May have been the translation, may have been dry humour.

Genetische Wissenschaft: James Watson, Entschlüsseler der DNA, ist tot Gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen Francis Crick entschlüsselte James Watson die DNA und legte den Grundstein für die Gentechnik. Später sorgte er mit rassistischen Aussagen für Empörung. Jetzt ist der Wis...

#DoppelHelix #Watson und #Crick - Diese #Entdeckung
wird zu den #bedeutendsten in der #Geschichte
der #Wissenschaft gezählt und legte auch
die #Grundlage für die #Gentechnik
#DNA #Genetik #Nobelpreis

A rectangular graphic with a yellow background. In the centre is the hardback book Crick by Matthew Cobb. In the bottom left-hand corner is the Profile Books logo.

🧬Discover the story of the man behind the double helix 🧬

#Crick – @matthewcobb.bsky.social's electrifying biography of revered 20th century scientist Francis Crick – publishes in hardback today.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/CrickBiography

🍀💖🍀A dried crick bed in autumn at the cemetery. The cemetery is nestled between 2 hills so it gets a lot of water when it rains. #cemetery #autumn #crick #art #photos #photography #PhotographersofBluesky #photosbywildthing

Sex, drugs and the conscious brain: Francis Crick beyond the double helix A thoroughly researched account of the history and relationships that shaped the scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA.

'Gripping and accessible'

A brilliant @nature.com review for #Crick, @matthewcobb.bsky.social's biography of the man beyond the double helix, publishing this Thursday 🧬

🍀💖🍀A happy discovery, this wagon bridge over another crick. #bridge #crick #fog #mist #autumn #art #photos #photography #PhotographersofBluesky #photosbywildthing