Mindy Weisberger (she/her)<p>It's a cicada sex party! Wait, who invited the zombies?</p><p>Periodical cicadas in Brood XIV are starting to appear, and so is the fungus Massospora cicadina, which infects and zombifies the cicadas. I wrote about what scientists hope to learn from Brood XIV cicada zombies, for Scientific American.</p><p><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brood-xiv-zombie-cicadas-are-coming/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/the-brood-xiv-zombie-cicadas-are-coming/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zombie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zombie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheLastOfUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheLastOfUs</span></a></p>