Published Work
All Articles
Worrying — Unnecessarily — About Vaccinating Your Child
Arctic Researchers Race to Uncover Effects of Global Warming on Songbirds
Ornithologists are in a race against time to document shifts at the top of the world that could foreshadow what’s to come in lower latitudes.
Non-Ultralight Field Reporting with Baby in Tow
Growing Up with Pesticides
Long-term studies of the effects of pesticides and other environmental chemicals on the very young brain are coming up with worrisome results.
You Won’t Get Pregnant if You Use the Pill, Right? Wrong.
Respecting the Body’s Clocks
Daily rhythms affect everything from the time we wake to how well we perform in sports.
Making Peace with the Changing Career Arc
The truth is that all science writers have to figure out the equation that allows them to meet career goals and deal with financial and family obligations.
Infectious Animals
Critters spread many germs that can sicken each other — and even kill people.
Parenting Survival by Haiku
About Me
I am spending the 2020-2021 academic year as a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. From 2015 until August 2020, I was the founding managing editor of SAPIENS, an editorially independent online publication devoted to making anthropology accessible and relevant to the general public. Before that, I spent a decade as a freelance journalist covering health, neuroscience, energy, the environment, and everything in between. My work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nature, Science, New Scientist, Audubon, and elsewhere.