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A Birthday Story: Practicing Self-Compassion

As I mark a new age, I imagine what I’d tell myself thirteen years ago at my college graduation. Here goes – today’s a momentous day. She’s beaming, proud, and ready to…

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Scrubbing Climate Change from Existence Won’t Save Us

Roughly eight years ago, I received a strange call from a national lab where I had just secured ‘in kind’ support—instrument time—to analyze shells, tiny foraminifera, I grew in a lab. My…

Performing complicity

I was reading Navalny’s new memoir “Patriot” while flying to New York to see the world premiere of Erika Sheffer’s “Vladimir,” directed by Daniel Sullivan for the Manhattan Theatre Club. Killed in…

Latino voters deserve respect

Access to science education and safe living environments for all are my goals. Ted Cruz came for me.

It was just before 10 p.m. as I fumbled for my car key in the university parking garage after teaching a late evening class. Out of the corner of my eye I…