Colonizing Mars Could Speed up Human Evolution Discover By Joshua Rapp Learn Oct 2, 2021 https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/colonizing-mars-could-speed-up-human-evolution...Read More
I am excited to announce that I will be speaking at Web Summit, an enormous science and technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal from November 4-7, 2019! https://websummit.com/ ...Read More
I’ve been quoted in several recent articles and news stories… In a recent opinion piece for Medium, Neil Theise and Maureen Seaberg ask whether, when it comes to developing off-earth colon...Read More
I’m one of several scientists featured in this episode of “Crowd Science” by the BBC World Service. My segment begins at 18:00 but I recommend listening to the whole episode as it is...Read More
Today I gave two guest presentations at Kountze High School, in the heart of the Big Thicket region of east Texas, about our research on local ants. The students enjoyed hearing about the ways in whic...Read More
I am very excited to announce that my latest project, a complete digital course on the modern science of evolution, is now available through The Great Courses! It consists of 24 videos, each 30 minute...Read More
I recently returned from a field research trip to Costa Rica where I worked with a fantastic team of collaborators (including both physicists and biologists) at the University of Costa Rica to underst...Read More
I had a great time visiting Texas State University in San Marcos last week, where I spoke as part of the Common Experience program. Despite the wet weather, there was a great turnout, with more than 2...Read More
I wrote a piece for NBC News MACH about how climate change could affect human evolution. One of the possible ways this could happen is by driving large scale migrations that would result in population...Read More
There was a lot of coverage this week of the research Tom Miller, Sarah Bengston, and I are doing this year to investigate how severe flooding from Hurricane Harvey affected native and non-native ant ...Read More