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IUWC 2019: Community Science
This session included three very different community science projects–from otters in Singapore to cats around the world! Otters! Philip Johns, of Yale-NUS College, studies…
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The Human Side of Urban Evolution: Integrating Identity and Community with Research
As life scientists that choose to study species within a city – habitats that are dominated by stochasticity, ecological traps, and, well, humans –…
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How to Talk to Passersby About Urban Evolution… Without Sounding Crazy
Posted by Ruth Rivkin (PhD candidate at University of Toronto Mississauga) We’ve all been there: You’re hard at work sampling on someone’s lawn, in…
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iNaturalist: Track Life in the City Near You!
Many people don’t think about cities as great places to observe wildlife, and most people have no idea what plants and animals live in…