Look who’s talking now: the fishes

A new book, “Data Are Made, Not Found,” from danah boyd, professor of communication, is an insider’s account of the 2020 census and how the pandemic and political forces from left, right and center threatened to take it down like a Jenga tower.

Academic focus: Insect physiology, microbiology, midgut biology and vector–pathogen interactions Research summary: I study the female mosquito midgut – the first organ a blood meal, and any pathogen it carries, must pass through in the...