This was the same guy that engineered the land swap near 'Cop City' that led to the dismantling of Intrenchment Creek Park's multi-use trail and recreational facilities and its unlawful closure!

(Courtesy Reid Davis alexandra edwards, phd for The Xylom @[email protected])

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NEW: In rural Western Uganda, an ambitious collaboration between Ecosia, Jane Goodall Institute Uganda, and residents to grow 200,000 trees in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor is reaping the rewards for people and wildlife.

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Super excited to be one of this stellar cohort of AAAS Mass Media Fellows this year
Thanks to Caitlin Looby, PhD for encouraging my first attempts and all the editors I've learned from esp VM
I'm looking forward to writing for the Journal Sentinel

As America's only AAPI science newsroom, we welcomed Siddhant Pusdekar' reported essay deconstructing the caste system within an Indian-American STEM context, under the backdrop of the murder of George Floyd where he lived.
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Congratulations to our own Siddhant Pusdekar!

The Xylom has sent contributors to the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship for four straight years. We are committed to helping early-career science writers take the next step.

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NEW: In rural Western Uganda, an ambitious collaboration between Ecosia, Jane Goodall Institute Uganda, and residents to grow 200,000 trees in the Budongo-Bugoma Corridor is reaping the rewards for people and wildlife.

A photo feature by KC: thexylom.com/post/in-rural-…

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Congratulations to our 2024 Awards of Excellence Finalists: Photo Essay 🎉

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andrea & i came to uchicago physics through a bridge program, which i wrote about for The Xylom @[email protected]: thexylom.com/post/two-black…

i shared more about our experiences in this essay for wired a year later: wired.com/story/the-unwr…

We've made Pragathi Ravi's feature “Cheetahs Arriving by Plane Does Not Make It a Restoration Project” available in Kannada!

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Looking to dive into investigative reporting but don't know where to start? Look at what’s happening in your beat and ask yourself “who’s getting harmed?” and “who needs to be held accountable?” said The Xylom @[email protected]'s newsroom fellow Shreya Agrawal. nationalpress.org/topic/shreya-a…

Excited to announce that The Xylom @[email protected] is a *two-time* finalist for the Atlanta Press Club Awards:

1. Rising Star: (myself!)
2. Photo Essay ('A Walk through Weelaunee Forest' by alexandra edwards, phd, which challenges the City of Atlanta's lies about 'Cop City')

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Thanks to The Xylom @[email protected] for recognising the work I do to beam light on the disproportionate impact of climate change on rural women in Nigeria.

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I made an appearance in The Xylom @[email protected]’s 2023 Impact Report—thanks for including me!!

It's here! Celebrating five years of growing science with words, check out The Xylom's 2023 Impact Report:

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NEW: in her new book, 'Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South,' Ayurella Horn-Muller detangles the complicated story of the South's fickle relationship with kudzu, and hers with the South.

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