MEDIA
Check out some fun media and outreach I have been involved with.
news And media covering or referencing my work
Article mentioning “Braddy et al. 2023. Not the first leech: an unusual worm from the early Silurian of Wisconsin”
Article mentioning “Tessler & Little. 2025. On herbarium specimen images and artificial intelligence”
Articles and podcast relating to “Fahmy & Tessler. 2024. A jumping terrestrial leech from Madagascar”
New York Times, New York Times reading contest, Scientific American, NPR Short Wave, Science, BBC Discover Wildlife, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Spain, USA Today, Newsweek, Gizmodo, AMNH, Natural History Museum, Le Monde, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Science News, New Scientist, Science Times, CBC
Article interviewing me in 2023 about sea lamprey.
Reference and newsletter relating to “Tessler et al. 2023. Rewilding in miniature: suburban meadows can improve soil microbial biodiversity and soil health.”
New York Times (see reference to “new research”), Virginia Working Landscapes (program at the Smithsonian)
Articles relating to “Tessler et al. 2022. Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum.”
Articles relating to “Moore et al. 2020. Paleo-metagenomics of North American fossil packrat middens: past biodiversity revealed by ancient DNA.”
Article relating to “Harbert et al. 2020. Spatial modeling could not differentiate early SARS-CoV-2 cases from the distribution of humans on the basis of climate in the United States.”
Articles relating to “Tessler et al. 2020. A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla.”
Articles relating to “Tessler et al. 2020. The impact of an ultra-gentle soft robot on jellyfish transcriptomic response during handling.”
Article relating to ongoing research on an invasive plant in 2019.
Video on the microbes living in mosses.
Articles relating to paper, “Tessler et al. 2018. Bloodlines: mammals, leeches, and conservation in southern Asia.”
New York Times, National Public Radio, National Resource Defense Council, The Scientist, Science News for Students, Mongabay, Genomeweb, AMNH, The Seattle Times, Science Daily, DNA Barcoding
Article relating to paper, “Tessler et al. 2018. Marine leech anticoagulant diversity and evolution.”
Articles relating to paper, “Brugler et al. 2018. The transcriptome of the Bermuda fireworm Odontosyllis enopla (Annelida: Syllidae): A unique luciferase gene family and putative epitoky-related genes.”
Articles and podcast relating to paper, “Tessler et al. 2017. Large-scale differences in microbial biodiversity discovery between 16S amplicon and shotgun sequencing.”
Articles relating to paper, “Tessler and Clark. 2016. The impact of bouldering on rock-associated vegetation.”
Articles relating to paper, “Rosenfeld, J., Reeves, D., Brugler, M. et al. 2016. Genome assembly and geospatial phylogenomics of the bed bug Cimex lectularius.”
Articles relating to paper, “Tessler et al. 2016. Description of an extant species with microcomputed tomography and phylogenetic revision of duognathous terrestrial leeches (Hirudinida: Arhynchobdellida: Haemadipsidae: Chtonobdella).”
Video video on my leech research and trip to Cambodia, 2016
Videos
American Museum of Natural History. 2019. Educational video on mosses and the microbes that live in them.
American Museum of Natural History. 2016. A video documenting a trip to Cambodia and some of our research.