MEDIA

2020. Important discussions were raised in association with our BioScience publication on the role of natural history museums in preventing future pandemics:The Conversation.

2019. The new mammal tree of life being published got press from Cosmos, ScienceDaily, and Phys.org, as well as Attention on Twitter.

2018. The publication of our paper on "How many species of mammals are there?" got press from IFLscience, International Business Times, Phys.org, EurekAlert!, and Teinteresa (Madrid).

2017. The publication of our Annual Review on Caribbean mammal extinctions got press from: Newsweek, New Scientist, LiveScience, Lab Manager, and Phys.org.

2017. The publication of our vizcacha rat study "Evolution of the largest mammalian genome" garners press attention from ScienceDaily, CBC Radio, and a blog post from The Molecular Ecologist.

2017. The journal Evolution wrote a news article about our analyses of the timing and rates of species diversification in sigmodontine mice.

2015. Chilean newspaper Diario Austral wrote an article on our description of a new mouse, Abrothrix manni, from Valdivian rainforests.

2015. YouTube show The Brain Scoop features our work on the evolutionary distinctiveness of naked mole-rats (now with 118,000+ views!!!).

2014. News story on my work with Bruce Patterson: "Naked mole-rats: Not a mole, not a rat, and not an African mole-rat".

2014. Upham, N. S. At the edge of what we know. The Human Geographic, issue 1 (online multi-media magazine; this is a popular article I wrote on vizcacha rat fieldwork in Argentina).

2014. My postdoc advisor, Ben Evans, and I made a short animated video explaining aspects of our research on genome expansion in vizcacha rats.

2013. News story about my research on Committee on Evolutionary Biology website: "DNA suggests two-way street between the Andes and Amazon for spiny rats...and birds, butterflies, frogs...".

2013. News story on my moonlight research on UChicago website: Do Small Rodents in the Desert Really Avoid Moonlight?