Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

(Also, I know now that Mort in the Madagascar movies is a mouse lemur not a slow loris. But I didn't know that at the time!)

I watched all four Madagascar movies to prepare for my postdoc interview at the Bronx/Central Park Zoos. Today, I got to do journal club + talk stats while @shulirank.bsky.social and I looked at a baby pygmy slow loris. Just a reminder that dreams do come true. 🥰

Overview: The WCS Career Lattice supports young people using a three-pronged approach. Connect and recruit local youth for career opportunities through outreach and partnerships. Develop their knowledge and skills through hands-on work experiences, professional development, and mentorship. Advance their careers through leadership training and tiered professional opportunities. Image of supervisor training three interns on penguin feeding.

Excited to share the @wcs.org Career Lattice report for 2025. The WCS Career Lattice supported 1900+ youth in volunteer, internship, and early career experiences across our NYC zoos and aquarium. We're proud to launch hundreds of careers in STEM, conservation, and more wcs.education/Interim-Latt...

How climate change worsened the most destructive wildfires in L.A. history The California fires erupted amid extremely dry conditions. UCLA scientists say extreme heat linked to climate change was a factor in the fires' intensity.

Everyone asks me: Did climate change burn down your town? No, but climate change intensified the fire that did.

www.latimes.com/environment/...

The 10th Annual WCS Youth JIVE (Job, Internship & Volunteering Expo) will be held on Saturday, February 7, at the Bronx Zoo.

The event connects young people to meaningful opportunities across our five NYC zoos and aquarium.

✅ 🌎 Register today: bronxzoo.com/jive

“reflexive qualitative research is a distinctly human practice, undertaken by humans, with or about humans (e.g., through interviews, focus groups or textual data), and for the benefit of humans.”

Youth & Young Adults - Bronx Zoo

For more info on the WCS Career Lattice: bronxzoo.com/learn/youth

I love working in #AltAc, and so much of that is because of these collaborative partnerships. Informal conversations over lunch lead to research questions. Shared office spaces lead to collaborative data collection. We naturally collect mixed-methods data, and our work has impact in real time.

Integrating DBR into our practice helps us better evaluate programs, iterate and improve our work, and conduct high quality research. We've used this process with our Career Lattice programs, where we serve 1900+ youth every year while researching mentoring, conservation, and STEM identity.

Leveraging Internal Partnerships for Design-Based Research in Museum Education Design-based research (DBR) is a useful approach for answering research and evaluation questions on both ends of the theoretical-to-applied spectrum because it combines the study of educational pro...

New #open-access paper from our team @wcs.org Education. We talk about why cultural institutions are the ideal place to study informal learning and youth development, and how collaboration between internal research and practice teams sets us up for successful design-based research (DBR) practices.