Courtney Humphries is a freelance writer whose bylines can be found in Boston Globe, Nautilus, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, Nature, Science, Wired, Harvard Magazine, Architect, and other publications. She is also a PhD candidate in environmental sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the author of Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan…And the World, a natural history of pigeons published by Smithsonian Books. She returned to MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow for 2015-2016.

Thesis: Side Effects: The New Age of AIDS in America

Recent Publications Include:

• Those COVID Tracking Charts Start Here, With Biobot Sewage Analysis That Knows We’re Sick Before We Do
• To Survive Rising Seas, Boston May Need To ‘Make’ Land Again
• A DNA Mystery: A Woman Was Supposed to Get Alzheimer’s By 50. Why Didn’t She?
• The “mind-boggling” task of protecting New York City from rising seas