[5] Beginning in 1995 Judson worked for two years as a science writer for The Economist and she later joined Imperial College London, where she is now an honorary research fellow.
Written in the style of a sex-advice column to animals, the book details the variety of sexual practices in the natural world and provides the reader with an overview of the evolutionary biology of sex.
In 2007 she co-presented Animal Farm with Giles Coren; the series, which explored genetic modification and pharming, was produced by Lion Television for Channel 4.
For the first half of 2009, guest bloggers filled in for Judson while she worked on a new book project;[7] after returning to the job for a year, she then departed for a "sabbatical" from blogging beginning June 29, 2010.
[15] In an article she published in Nature Ecology and Evolution in 2017, Judson is listed as working at Freie Universität Berlin, Imperial College London and University of Glasgow.