I will give a hopefully accessible introduction to some work on
tropical moduli spaces of curves and abelian varieties. I will report
on joint work with Madeline Brandt, Juliette Bruce, Margarida Melo,
Gwyneth Moreland, and Corey Wolfe, in which we find new rational
cohomology classes in the moduli space A_g of abelian varieties using
tropical techniques. And I will try to touch on a new point of view on
this topic, namely that of differential forms on tropical moduli
spaces, following the work of Francis Brown.