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What keeps the red queen running?

Aug 6, 2025 3 min read

AI-generated definition based on 'Quantitative and analytical tools to analyze the spatiotemporal population dynamics of microbial consortia’, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, August 2022: The R…

The WHA coronavirus resolution is not great for science

May 22, 2020 4 min read

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On May 19, member states of the WHO moved a vote in the World Health Assembly (WHA), asking for an independent investigation into the sources of the novel coronavirus. Their exact demands were spelle…

Who is a science writer?

Aug 30, 2014 2 min read

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August 28 was Orientation Day at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University, where I've enrolled with the Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) for the…