Newspaper articles and & TV Programs
Ants, acacias and shameless bribery
Coverage of our paper entitled “Short-term plasticity and variation in acacia ant-rewards under different conditions of ant occupancy and herbivory”, was highlighted in The Economist.
Featuring: Finote Gijsman, Maikol Guevara, Yorlenis González and Sabrina Amador
Language: English
¿Cómo las carreteras afectan a la vida silvestre?
Coverage in the local media about roadkills trend published in Biotropica.
Featuring: Dumas Gálvez
Language: Spanish
Araña de seda de oro
Coverage in the local TVN about natural history of the spider Triconephila clavipes.
Featuring: Dumas Gálvez
Language: Spanish
Ant Queens Boost Their Immune System With Sex
Coverage in National Geographic about my research on immune priming in ant queen during PhD.
Featuring: Dumas Gálvez
Language: English
Científico panameño se lleva las hormigas a su casa por el COVID-19
Coverage in local and international media about our research with ants at the beginning of the pandemic. Some examples include the panamanian TV channel Telemetro, Swiss journal 20 minutes, AFP in spanish, Infobae, among many others.
Featuring: Dumas Gálvez
Language: Spanish
Scientists get creative to carry on research during pandemic
Recent coverage in Phys.org, Yahoo News about my research with ants during the pandemics.
Featuring: Dumas Gálvez
Language: English
“La danta que trató de cruzar la Interamericana norte” (The tapir that tried to cross the road).
Opinion piece for the Costa Rican newspaper La Nación and CRHoy to raise awareness towards wildlife. Specifically, these articles comment on the need to have wildlife-friendly road design.
Featuring: Sabrina Amador
Language: Spanish
Podcasts
La madriguera podcast episode “Tan chiquitito pero tan enorme” (“So little, yet so big”)
Production: Hernán Jiménez. We were invited by this renowned Costa Rica filmmaker based in Miami, to participate in a podcast series he created for people to listed during the quarantine period, along with Dr. Franklin Chang. This episode was about perspective, so I discussed how it is to be an acacia ant.
Featuring: Sabrina Amador
Language: Spanish