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Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science comes out April 16th, 2024!

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Featured Pieces

Risking Life and Limb to Catalog the World’s Plants

in Narratively

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The Pandemic Has Reversed the Usual Gender Roles in My House and I Love It

in HuffPost

Coming to Terms With Everything My Daughter Won’t Remember

in The Cut’s
 The Science of Us

Can Better Photosynthesis Help Feed the World?

in Undark

The Identity Transformation of Becoming a Mom

in The Cut’s
The Science of Us

Becoming Alien: The Pioneering Vision of “Star Trek”

in The Los Angeles Review of Books

How a Love of Flowers Helped Charles Darwin Validate Natural Selection

in Smithsonian Magazine

The Unexpected Loneliness of Bringing My Fiance Back to My Hometown

in The Cut’s
It’s Complicated

Other Topics

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Collections and Natural History

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On Academia