jen dyck-sprout

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How Studying Pests Changed My Life

What the world's most villainized creatures taught me about my own purpose

Jan 19, 2026
∙ Paid
Read time: 10 minutes.

Last week I wrote about how a mistaken identity in Tokyo sent me on a quest to better understand how we knew whether a creature’s hunger was helpful or harmful.

It was a funny coincidence that I sent that email about embarking on a new adventure on the same day that I set off on a different adventure (the Tour d’Afrique), fourteen y…

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