Category: Urban Evolution in the Media
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The rise of Culex molestus: True Urban Evolution or a mere eco-type?
A number of years ago there was quite a lot of media attention regarding a possible case of in situ evolution of Culex pipiens…
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Science Meets Activism: Stream ecology in the wake of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
During the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2024 conference, I interviewed Andrea Beverly and Jamie Lau, from Radford University, who are studying…
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Student Media Highlight: Life in the City mini-documentary
[embedyt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obHtOIJrwh8[/embedyt] Our perceptions of wildlife and nature are shaped by the media which highlights. The mold has been set by great figures like David…
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Urban Wildlife in Albuquerque
Check out this video of Zoë Rossman discussing the vibrant and diverse wildlife in Albuquerque, New Mexico! The City Nature Challenge is an annual…
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How the GLUE Animation Came About
“How life adapts to cities around the world” is a 5 minute educational animated film created by Sherry An (myself), a science and medical…
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New Book Alert: Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities
A new urban ecology book by Dr. Cylita Guy is out that highlights the work of multiple urban ecologists and evolutionary biologists, including many…
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Urban Evolution in the Press!
Recently, our research has been center stage in a number of different platforms! There was a documentary, Darwin in Times Square- the Science of…
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Video Recommendation: The City Animal Tier List!
The YouTube channel TierZoo makes a ton of cool videos about animals, specifically viewed through the lens of gaming, where they rank different animal…
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What is the “Indoor Biome”?
The tropics of Trinidad… the gleaming ice of the Arctic… as urban scientists, these are field sites we typically forgo for the sake of…
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Media Summary: Planet Earth II – Cities
As someone studying animals in cities, I often feel need to justify why it is essential that we understand how organisms utilize and evolve…
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Urban Lizards on TV!
The Smithsonian Channel and Day’s Edge Productions have put together a fantastic mini-series and a full-length documentary on anole evolutionary research. Episode 7 of the miniseries and part…