Secrets of the clam tongue: a case study in opportunistic science outreach
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By , on July 16th, 2012 11 comments   Education, Scientist!   , , , , , ,  

Last week, a clam video went viral. (Get your mind out of the gutter, internet! I mean a bivalve! A mollusc! A lamellibranch!) For people who know how clams actually live, the misconceptions of this video are obvious. That’s not the clam’s tongue, that’s its foot. The clam is trying to use its foot to . . . → Read More: Secrets of the clam tongue: a case study in opportunistic science outreach

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Pacific plastic, sea skaters, and the media: behind the scenes of my recent paper
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By , on May 15th, 2012 10 comments   Scientist!   , , , , , ,  

You might have seen the headlines last week: Big rise in North Pacific plastic waste, Plastic in ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ increases 100-fold, Ocean Trash is a Lifesaver for Insects, and so forth. These were based on a paper that I wrote with two co-authors, which came out in Biology Letters last week. Because . . . → Read More: Pacific plastic, sea skaters, and the media: behind the scenes of my recent paper

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