Leadership in Public Science

Facilitated Citizen Science in Public Libraries as a Context for Science Socialization

Smith, H. E., Cooper, C. B., Larson, L. R., Busch, K. C., & Stevenson, K. (2026, March 6). Citizen Science Theory and Practice.

Heavy metals and eggshell coloration in House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) eggshells across the Eastern United States

Hartley, S., Cooper, C., Patton, M., Hawn, C., Jewell, K., Wiggins, A., … Hanley, D. (2026, February 25). PLoS ONE, Vol. 2.

Increasing density from population recovery does not explain elevated partial brood loss in a threatened cooperative breeder

Pharr, L. D., Moorman, C. E., Hostetter, N. J., Sorenson, C. E., Walters, J. R., & Cooper, C. B. (2026, January 30). Ornithological Applications.

Correction: Caslin et al. Tabonuco and Plantation Forests at Higher Elevations Are More Vulnerable to Hurricane Damage and Slower to Recover in Southeastern Puerto Rico. Land 2025, 14, 1324

Caslin, M. W., Katti, M., Nelson, S. A. C., & Vakil, T. (2026, January 15). Land, Vol. 1.

Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation

Sinotte, V. M., Ramos-Viana, V., Vásquez, D. P., Sirakova, S. M., Valerón, N. R., Cuesta-Maté, A., … Jahn, L. J. (2025, October 1). IScience.

Understanding and Improving Data Repurposing

Parsons, J., Lukyanenko, R., Greenwood, B. N., & Cooper, C. B. (2025, September 18). MIS Quarterly.

Does Fermentation Enhance Beverage Safety? Kombucha’s Resistance to Microbial Invasion Suggests a Protective Role

Alcaraz, G. M., Narayanan, S., Alcock, J., Ayers, J. D., Baciu, C., Berman, H. L., … Aktipis, A. (2025, December 24).

Two Metschnikowia nectar yeast species have similar volatile profiles, but elicit differential foraging in bee pollinators

Moore, M. E., Wilson, L., Brandt, N., Wada-Katsumata, A., Saveer, A. M., Schal, C., … Smukowski Heil, C. (2025, November 5). DRYAD.

The Role of Image Restoration Strategies in the Jesse Gelsinger Case

Zagacki, K., Binder, A., Zagacki, K., & Binder, A. (2025, December 9). Rhetoric of Health & Medicine.

Caixa de Ferramentas para Ética de Dados nas Ciências Participativas

Cooper, C., & Rasmussen, L. M. (2025, November 20). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Caixa de Ferramentas para Ética de Dados nas Ciências Participativas

Cooper, C., & Rasmussen, L. M. (2025, November 20). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Caja de Herramientas para la Ética de Datos

Cooper, C., & Rasmussen, L. M. (2025, November 20). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Caja de Herramientas para la Ética de Datos

Cooper, C., & Rasmussen, L. M. (2025, November 20). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

The bee bread of honey bees is characterized by a core microbiota despite the application of miticide treatments and variation across space and time

Lawrence, B. L., Custer, G. F., Underwood, R. M., Dunn, R. R., Dini-Andreote, F., & López-Uribe, M. M. (2025, November 20). PeerJ.

ParaRef: a decontaminated reference database for parasite detection in ancient and modern metagenomic datasets

Niemann, J., Huang, Y., Lanigan, L. T., Grijalba, A. L. W., Dunn, R. R., Sikora, M., & Schroeder, H. (2025, October 23). Genome Biology.

Predicting Drinking Water Quality Using Low-Cost Sensing: Water Aesthetics and Chemistry Strips

Berglund, E. Z., Hunter, D. L., & Cooper, C. (2025, November 13). Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

“Watching from Your Own Residence Makes It More Accessible”: Identifying Supports and Barriers to Participatory Science for Racially-Minoritized, Disabled, and Neurodivergent Participants

Langhans, K. E., Blume, C., Cooper, C., Dietsch, A. M., Greig, E., McGregor, F., … Dayer, A. A. (2025, January 1). Citizen Science Theory and Practice.

Fun Surveys? Developing an Innovative Approach to Assessing Learning Through Citizen Science

Allf, B., Larson, L., Goodwin, J., Dunn, R., & Cooper, C. (2025, September 18). Citizen Science Theory and Practice.

Ambient temperature, clutch size, and daylight are the main drivers of incubation behavior in two neotropical swallows breeding 8,000 km apart

Diez-Méndez, D., Liljeström, M., Cooper, C. B., Ardia, D. R., & Winkler, D. (2025, September 1).

Cooking-class style fermentation as a context for co-created science and engagement

Berman, H. L., McKenney, E. A., Roche, C. E., Michalski, S., Kwon, S. H., Weichel, E., … Dunn, R. R. (2025, August 15). Microbiology Spectrum, Vol. 8.

Social capital as a predictor of collective environmental action in high school students

Gibson, L., Stevenson, K., Busch, K. C., Cutts, B., Seekamp, E., & Krementz, S. (2025, July 29). The Journal of Environmental Education, Vol. 7.

Educating for psychological, community, and ecological resilience: a case study from North Carolina, USA

McCollum, A. R., Stevenson, K. T., Tayne, K., DeMattia, E., Jeffs, P., & Busch, K. C. (2025, July 11). Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Vol. 7.

Genomes of critically endangered saola are shaped by population structure and purging

Garcia-Erill, G., Liu, S., Le, M. D., Hurley, M. M., Nguyen, H. D., Nguyen, D. Q., … Heller, R. (2025, May 5). Cell, Vol. 188.

Tabonuco and Plantation Forests at Higher Elevations Are More Vulnerable to Hurricane Damage and Slower to Recover in Southeastern Puerto Rico

Caslin, M. W., Katti, M., Nelson, S. A. C., & Vakil, T. (2025, June 21). Land, Vol. 14.

Urban heat and latitude: contrasting effects on ant diversity across cities

Penick, C. A., Peagler, Z., Buttram, L., Dunn, R. R., Frank, S. D., & Youngsteadt, E. (2025, June 13). Urban Ecosystems, Vol. 28.