Popular Press

Last updated on Nov 7, 2021

I am very passionate about finding ways to make complex problems feel personal and approachable. I intend to shift a lot more of my energy toward writing for the broader public going forward.

Publications

Boosting Students’ Data Literacy
Here I talk about a couple strategies I developed to weave graphs into any lesson and make those graphs interesting to students by …
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Boosting Students’ Data Literacy
Why It Took So Long to Appreciate Female Birds’ Songs
I wrote this piece with Lauryn Benedict, PhD to draw attention to our 2020 study describing female barn swallow song for the first …
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Why It Took So Long to Appreciate Female Birds’ Songs
5 Reasons to Actually Encourage Students to Use Wikipedia
I wrote this piece to advocate for why we should encourage students to use and improve Wikipedia–an unmatched, free resource for …
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5 Reasons to Actually Encourage Students to Use Wikipedia
More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution
My article on the Scientific American Observations blog describing the scale of our plastic problem and how industrial lobbying and …
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More Recycling Won't Solve Plastic Pollution