last year's #CurrentBiology feature on #plasticPollution is now in the #OpenArchives https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/04/stop-plastic-pollution.html #science #environment #pollution #microplastics
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 8: #Amphibians feel the heat of the #ClimateCatastrophe
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/04/amphibians-feel-heat.html #science #scienceJournalism #ecology #environment #frogs
as a #tardigrade species has been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear , #CurrentBiology have plugged my recent feature about them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIQmslDMwJT/ #science #ecology #invertebrates
this week's feature in #CurrentBiology is about #oases in the #desert https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/04/culturally-connected-oases.html #science #ecology #environment
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 7: #oases in the #desert are not only curious hotspots of #biodiversity but also important stepping points on historic trade routes like the #SilkRoad.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/04/culturally-connected-oases.html
#science #ecology
#freshwater #WaterSecurity #environment
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 6: With 1.5 degrees warming and counting, #glaciers are doomed to disappear. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-global-meltdown.html #science #ClimateCatastrophe #cryosphere #freshwater #WaterSecurity #tippingPoints #environment
repeat for the (non-existent) followers of the bluesky bridge:
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #trumpocalypse 2 - how the #disruption in the US will cost lives around the world and accelerate the #ClimateCatastrophe
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/03/moving-backwards-and-breaking-things.html
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #trumpocalypse 2 - how the #disruption in the US will cost lives around the world and accelerate the #ClimateCatastrophe
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/03/moving-backwards-and-breaking-things.html
new #Introduction for the bsky bridge : I’m a #BioChemist turned #ScienceWriter, write a feature for every issue of #CurrentBiology, 2/month, mostly about #ecology #evolution #environment also #human, #cultural things seen thru #biology prism. Plus #ScienceBooks, most recently: #Intertwined: From insects to icebergs Also writing a #musical #FamilyHistory #memoir around #biography of our old #cello. #PirateLuthier fixing unloved #violins #NoCars #cycling, #trains, #liveable #cities #townmouse
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry #PlanetaryBoundaries
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 3: Humans have always migrated, it's in our genes. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/homo-migrans.html
#science #genome #migration #ancientDNA #archaeology #history #RomanEmpire #MiddleAges #MigrationPeriod #ProseAndPassion
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 2: Reconstructing ancient #OlfactorySensors may help solve the #structures of the modern ones
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-origins-of-smell.html #science #smell #structuralBiology #proteins #nanoworld #alphaFold
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 1: As part of my informal new year series #FantasticSpecies, #tardigrades get their place in the spotlight: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/01/tiny-survivors.html #science #ecology #evolution #astrobiology #LifeOnTheEdge
The (slow) thread collecting all my features published in #CurrentBiology in 2025 starts here. #ProseAndPassion #Science #ScienceWriter #ScienceJournalism #biology #ecology The old thread for 2024 is here:
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 20: the challenge to understand the #biomechanics of #flying, swimming, crawling in long-extinct species such as #pterosaurs. part of a special issue on #physics and #biology
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/10/flapping-pterosaurs.html #evolution #science
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 19: #Whales came to dominate the oceans in only 50 million years. Humans nearly wiped them out within a century. The story of their #RiseAndFall: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-whale-of-tale.html #science #ecology #evolution #MarineBiology #Cetaceans
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 18: As I live half-way between a #Dodo pub and the #Oxford University Museum, I obviously had to write a dodo feature, with the more general theme of #conservation lessons to be learned from #extinction: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/09/dodo-and-company.html #science #ecology #birds #LewisCarroll #AliceInWonderland
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 17: We had absolutely no #wasps in our #Oxford #garden this summer, so I took this as an excuse to look into their #ecology and #EcosystemServices. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-silent-summer.html #science #insects
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 16: As it's still summer travel season, here's my bit about how #pathogens travel - from the stone age to #Covid, but the main new research I discuss is about intercontinental travel by sail and steam ships.
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/08/travelling-pathogens.html #science #ecology #disease #travel #history #SailShips #SteamShips
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 15: I hate the whole #AI hype but when it comes to its #ClimateImpact, there's a topic for me ... https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-ai-tipping-point-is-nigh.html #science #technology #ClimateCatastrophe #ChatGPT #LLM #hype #google #microsoft
