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How to Survive a STEM PhD

Posted on July 18, 2018 by almostlikescience

I recently wrote a short eBook, which is now available on Amazon! It was a fun project and primarily a way to collect lots of advice I’ve received over the years. I’m including a short excerpt here—for the full book, … Continue reading →

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Plantation Peril

Posted on July 4, 2018 by almostlikescience

Replacing rainforests with farms has many obvious consequences, but a recent paper from Nature Communications suggests that the ecological effect of deforestation is even greater than previously imagined. In this study, researchers, including several from UC Berkeley, showed that species … Continue reading →

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