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Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

Psychology

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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Microbiology

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Jessica G. Riskin is a historian of science and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is the author of Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

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Bob Grant is the deputy editor at Nautilus.

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Elena Kazamia is a science writer from Greece. She has a master’s degree in conservation from University College London and a Ph.D. in plant sciences from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

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