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Zia Mehrabi
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Aug 12, 2022

Overcoming bias in peer review

We need to make peer review more transparent. Like any academic I get asked to review papers as part of a service to the academic community. I often have to turn these invitations down: I just get asked to do too many reviews — if I took all the invitations…

Academic

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Overcoming bias in peer review
Overcoming bias in peer review
Academic

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Jun 13, 2021

The digital war on biodiversity

There is a war going on outside, and biodiversity is losing by every metric available. Our humanity, and that of future generations, depends on us taking up arms today and fighting on the losing side, click for click, until the balance of the planet is restored. — The UN Secretary General’s address on the urgency needed to protect nature was revolutionary given the founding role of the UN as a peace-forming organization (1). When it comes to biodiversity, the casualties keep building, day-by-day, month-by-month, and year-by-year. Individuals, species, communities, whole ecosystems are identified, targeted, eliminated (2). The…

Digital Marketing

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The digital war on biodiversity
The digital war on biodiversity
Digital Marketing

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Published in the nature of food

·May 5, 2021

Geeking out on farming

There are many big claims in agricultural research. That GMOs are higher yielding than non-GMOs, that biochar is the next best thing, or that intercropping is the way to go. …

Technology

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Geeking out on farming
Geeking out on farming
Technology

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Published in the nature of food

·Jan 28, 2021

Media coverage of climate change during COVID-19

In the years leading up to the pandemic, the coverage of climate change in the media increased year on year — accompanied by a rise in widespread public protests and climate action. Then, like many other aspects of our lives over the past year, media coverage of climate change was…

Climate Change

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Media coverage of climate change during COVID-19
Media coverage of climate change during COVID-19
Climate Change

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Published in the nature of food

·Jun 4, 2019

Synchronizing food production can have disastrous effects

Crop failures are an important cause of food price spikes, conflict and food insecurity. The likelihood of local crop failures being catastrophic at the global level is exacerbated when they happen at the same time — that is, when our agricultural systems become more synchronized. In a paper in Nature…

Agriculture

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Synchronizing food production can have disastrous effects
Synchronizing food production can have disastrous effects
Agriculture

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Published in the nature of food

·Oct 31, 2018

The Colours of Food Security

The food system is failing. And we are on a mission to fix it. Feel like joining us? Taking part might mean changing the way you see the world. Solving big problems needs people. But it also needs a common vision. …

Food

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The Colours of Food Security
The Colours of Food Security
Food

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Published in the nature of food

·Aug 15, 2018

How to conserve half the planet without going hungry

Every day there are roughly 386,000 new mouths to feed, and in that same 24 hours, scientists estimate between one and 100 species will go extinct. That’s it. Lost forever. To deal with the biodiversity crisis we need to find a way to give nature more space — habitat loss…

Environment

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How to conserve half the planet without going hungry
How to conserve half the planet without going hungry
Environment

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Zia Mehrabi

Zia Mehrabi

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Assist Prof, University of Colorado Boulder

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