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I'm excited to share our new paper, led by @erleellis. By combining global maps of human populations and land use, we found that ~75% of terrestrial nature has been shaped

There are a lot of articles like this that are outlining the impacts of long-term stress and anxiety. I'm glad we're having these conversations, because it helps people realize they're

Okay, so: I was understandably incredulous to read this. 41,000 years is unheard of in terms of an organism surviving deep freeze, by orders of magnitude. So, I went to

Maybe it's all the love for fat bear week that's got me thinking about this. Maybe it's my ongoing struggle to find good tank tops to box in, or rain

I've been thinking a lot about this piece since I read it earlier in the summer. I read it for a nonprofit board I'm on (a local feminist healthcare provider),

We found this intact moth frozen in place in still-green grass in a permafrost tunnel in Siberia. We just got a radiocarbon date back on the grass it was found

Now that BethAnn has admitted to faking Sciencing_Bi, and I'm already seeing people trying to excuse her actions as mental illness, please remember: Everyone, including people with mental illness, deserves

Just a few, hopefully last, thoughts: 1) Please think about how you frame your discussion about BAM/SB. What’s a popcorn drama or a fun meme source to you is bringing

If I could go back to my grad student self and tell her one thing, it would be: have a system to organize your files, data, and project notes. You're

I opened Twitter and saw that one of the trending topics is a hashtag about Trump's obesity.If you're using someone's weight or disability to mock or criticize them, you're sending

There are now spreadsheets or wikis with academic job listings for most fields now. These can be a helpful resource for finding jobs, but the anonymous comments often reflect some

2. EOCENETitanoboa (40-foot-long snek)Dawn redwoods (once-widespread conifers, now native to China)Dawn horses (tiny adorable proto-horses)Ambulocetus ("walking whales," basically hoofed amphibious carnivores)Eophyllium (the earliest known