Press Coverage

Selected examples of media coverage of my research

CBC 'As it happens' Canada national radio interview on our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024). June 7, 2024: 'Going without the flow' (starts at 1:04:15).

CBC 'As it happens'

Canada national radio interview on our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024). June 7, 2024: 'Going without the flow' (starts at 1:04:15).

BBC News World Service Radio interview about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024). Interview starts at 26:30.

BBC News World Service

Radio interview about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024). Interview starts at 26:30.

'‘Greener’ Drugs Needed to Protect Wildlife, Biodiversity and Public Health From Exposure Damages, Study Says' Article about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024).

'‘Greener’ Drugs Needed to Protect Wildlife, Biodiversity and Public Health From Exposure Damages, Study Says'

Article about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024).

'Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study' Article about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024).

'Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study'

Article about our paper in Nature Sustainability advocating for developing greener pharmaceuticals (Brodin & Bertram et al. 2024).

'Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets' Article about our preprint, ‘Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology’ (Gould et al. E

'Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets'

Article about our preprint, ‘Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology’ (Gould et al. EcoEvoRxiv).

'Nature Podcast' Podcast episode with a discussion of our preprint, ‘Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology’ (Gould et al. EcoEvoRxiv). Starts at 18:25.

'Nature Podcast'

Podcast episode with a discussion of our preprint, ‘Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology’ (Gould et al. EcoEvoRxiv). Starts at 18:25.

'Moving towards an open science community' Blog post written for the Royal Society for International Open Access Week, building off of our recent paper in Current Biology (Bertram et al. 2022). We highlight the important role of grassroots communiti

'Moving towards an open science community'

Blog post written for the Royal Society for International Open Access Week, building off of our recent paper in Current Biology (Bertram et al. 2022). We highlight the important role of grassroots communities in driving open science.

Netflix documentary series ‘Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything’ (Season 1, Episode 2) Science reporter and host Latif Nasser investigates the fascinating and intricate ways that we are connected to each other, the world, and the universe

Netflix documentary series ‘Connected: The Hidden Science of Everything’ (Season 1, Episode 2)

Science reporter and host Latif Nasser investigates the fascinating and intricate ways that we are connected to each other, the world, and the universe at large. Our lab’s research is featured starting at 17:00.

'Open science' The Wikipedia entry for the term ‘Open science’ cites our paper published in Proceedings B, ‘Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices’ (Gomes et al. 2022).

'Open science'

The Wikipedia entry for the term ‘Open science’ cites our paper published in Proceedings B, ‘Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices’ (Gomes et al. 2022).

'Beyond climate: oil, gas and coal are destabilising all 9 planetary boundaries' Mongabay interview on the environmental risks of pollution stemming from fossil fuels.

'Beyond climate: oil, gas and coal are destabilising all 9 planetary boundaries'

Mongabay interview on the environmental risks of pollution stemming from fossil fuels.

'Big-data tracking technologies can uncover wildlife secrets and reduce their conflicts with humans' Article by EurekAlert! on our review paper in Science (Nathan et al. 2022), in which we review the current state-of-the-art and future research po

'Big-data tracking technologies can uncover wildlife secrets and reduce their conflicts with humans'

Article by EurekAlert! on our review paper in Science (Nathan et al. 2022), in which we review the current state-of-the-art and future research possibilities of high-throughput wildlife tracking systems.

'Fighting the impacts of human-induced environmental change' Blog post and interview by the Royal Society when I joined Proceedings B as an Associate Editor.

'Fighting the impacts of human-induced environmental change'

Blog post and interview by the Royal Society when I joined Proceedings B as an Associate Editor.

Prozac turns guppies into "zombies"' Write-up on our paper in Proceedings B (Polverino et al. 2021), showing that exposure to a widespread pharmaceutical pollutant erodes behavioural variation between but not within contaminated individuals.

Prozac turns guppies into "zombies"'

Write-up on our paper in Proceedings B (Polverino et al. 2021), showing that exposure to a widespread pharmaceutical pollutant erodes behavioural variation between but not within contaminated individuals.

'Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns' An article on the news site Mongabay outlining the threat posed by chemical pollution to tropical mammals, for which I was interviewed.

'Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns'

An article on the news site Mongabay outlining the threat posed by chemical pollution to tropical mammals, for which I was interviewed.

'Fish could be getting high and horny off our wastewater drugs' Vice News article on our paper in Environmental Pollution (Bertram et al. 2018), in which we showed that exposure to the common pharmaceutical contaminant fluoxetine (i.e. Prozac) alt

'Fish could be getting high and horny off our wastewater drugs'

Vice News article on our paper in Environmental Pollution (Bertram et al. 2018), in which we showed that exposure to the common pharmaceutical contaminant fluoxetine (i.e. Prozac) alters pre- and post-copulatory traits in male fish.

'Fish are swimming in happy pills. Here’s why that’s bad' An article by the news site BrainFacts about the threat posed by pharmaceutical pollution to environmental health, for which I was interviewed.

'Fish are swimming in happy pills. Here’s why that’s bad'

An article by the news site BrainFacts about the threat posed by pharmaceutical pollution to environmental health, for which I was interviewed.

'More depressing news about anti-depressants: research highlights impact on fish behaviour' Article in Cosmos Magazine about our paper in Biology Letters (Martin et al. 2019), in which we showed that exposure to environmentally realistic levels of

'More depressing news about anti-depressants: research highlights impact on fish behaviour'

Article in Cosmos Magazine about our paper in Biology Letters (Martin et al. 2019), in which we showed that exposure to environmentally realistic levels of antidepressant pollution alters group foraging behaviours in fish.

'What do we do with drugged salmon?' Article by the Baltic Salmon Foundation covering our ongoing partnership, in which we are investigating how contamination of waterways with pharmaceutical drugs impacts migratory behaviour and survival in Atlan

'What do we do with drugged salmon?'

Article by the Baltic Salmon Foundation covering our ongoing partnership, in which we are investigating how contamination of waterways with pharmaceutical drugs impacts migratory behaviour and survival in Atlantic salmon.

'Beef steroid causing guppy mating changes with wider implications for other species, research says' Article from ABC News (Australia) covering our paper (Bertram et al. 2015), in which we showed that a common hormone contaminant from beef agricul

'Beef steroid causing guppy mating changes with wider implications for other species, research says'

Article from ABC News (Australia) covering our paper (Bertram et al. 2015), in which we showed that a common hormone contaminant from beef agriculture alters the reproductive behaviour and morphology of exposed fish.