My latest story for National Geographic explores why bonobo males, surprisingly, are more often aggressive to other males than chimpanzee males are, featuring MaudMouginot, Michael Wilson and Martin Surbeck (@kokolopori). nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

The camera of my Motorola Support G54 does not hold focus on zoom. Many other people have reported this issue (see link). I've sent it in for repair three times. Yet they refuse to repair, replace of refund it. Never again will I be buying from them. forums.lenovo.com/t5/moto-g54-5G…

Limbless amphibians begging their mother for milk? I couldn't have made it up myself. My latest story for Scientific American, featuring Marcel Kouete and others! scientificamerican.com/article/the-fi…

As fire regimes change, can animals adapt? My latest story for National Geographic, featuring gavin jones and Alex Potash. nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

Very happy to see the comic I made with makinaro.bsky.social republished by Scientific American today!

Shark finning regulations have not made a dent in shark deaths from fishing. My latest story for @natgeo, featuring Boris Worm, Laurenne Schiller, Nicholas Dulvy and Colin Simpfendorfer. #sharks #sharkfinning nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…

For my latest Knowable Magazine Q&A, I've talked to neurobiologist John F. Cryan @ucc about the link between the gut #microbiome and #brain #health . knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

My latest story for Knowable Magazine explains why #Neandertals are more knowable now than ever, and features Dr. April Nowell, Chris Stringer, Bence Viola and Laura Weyrich. knowablemagazine.org/article/societ…

My latest story for Mongabay, on how to handle herbivores in the early stages of #restoration projects, featuring Brian Silliman, Jens Svenning and Yuri Souza. news.mongabay.com/2023/11/keepin…

In my latest Q&A for Knowable Magazine, I explore the pros, cons and evidence in favor of or against payments for environmental services with Sven Wunder of the European Forest Institute (EFI) Institute.
Does it work to pay people not to cut the forest? knowablemagazine.org/article/food-e…

How do social animals divide the work without bosses or schedules? My latest for Knowable Magazine, featuring Raghavendra Gadagkar and Yuko Ulrich. knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

Finally online after years of tinkering: the comic I made for Knowable Magazine with makinaro.bsky.social and Rosie Mestel on the origin of the nervous system. knowablemagazine.org/article/living…

Some plants send out odor signals to attract their enemies’ enemies.

Could these stealthy survival tactics teach us how to curb the widespread use of chemical pesticides in agriculture?

tim vernimmen chats with chemical ecologist Ted Turlings #ecology
knowablemagazine.org/article/food-e…

For my latest Q&A Knowable Magazine, I've talked to BioNTech SE co-founder Özlem Türeci to learn more about how the same technology that gave us a Covid-19 vaccine may help us treat cancer as well. knowablemagazine.org/article/techno…

My latest story for National Geographic, exploring the fascinating idea that our ancestors interbred with an unknown population of a different hominin species in Africa, featuring Aaron Ragsdale, HennLab, Chris Stringer, Eleanor Scerri and Jess Thompson! nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl…

In my latest Q&A for Knowable Magazine, Stephen Simpson Prof David Raubenheimer & Prof Stephen Simpson explains how his and David Raubenheimer's work on migratory locusts led to a series of discoveries about the drivers of appetite that apply to humans as well. #healthyfood #healthyeating knowablemagazine.org/article/food-e…

My latest story for Mongabay, about the many ways in which climate change might make human-wildlife conflict worse, and what we can do about it, inspired by a paper in NatureClimate. #WorldWildlifeDay news.mongabay.com/2023/03/climat…

My latest story for Mongabay, about the South-American #H5N1 #BirdFlu outbreak that is killing vulnerable birds and mammals, featuring Víctor Gamarra Toledo, Carlos Zavalaga, Daniel Plazas Jiménez & Sergio Lambertucci. news.mongabay.com/2023/02/avian-…

New story for Mongabay explaining why many mammals do not occur in the places they prefer, and why we should not just protect areas we don't need for anything else, based on papers in PNASNews by Susanne Shultz et al. & nature by Gopal Murali et al. news.mongabay.com/2023/01/temper…

My first-ever story for Mongabay, explaining why those methane-emitting, vegetation-trampling, seedling-chomping large herbivores may in fact be very helpful in the fight against climate change, featuring Yadvinder Malhi and Jens Svenning. news.mongabay.com/2022/12/counte… #COP15