Memoir

Obstacles in Guyland

A modified excerpt from my memoir-in-progress

Oct 23 •

Negative Pressure

A memoir-y meditation on the push and pull of laboratory spaces

Oct 25, 2024 •

The risky business of tool development in biological research

A cautionary tale

Sep 16, 2024 •

I like big risks and I cannot lie

First in a series of posts inspired by "Rationalizing Risk Aversion in Science"

Sep 2, 2024 •

Zooming to Sonder

How online teaching helped me see my students

Jul 31, 2024 •

How the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to my departure from academia, part 1

It helped me quit in all the ways you think it did . . . but in other ways as well

Jul 8, 2024 •

Fact-checking my scientific origin story

My contribution to the 2024 Atheneum Fellows Reading

Jun 3, 2024 •

Performing a Post-Academic Career

It’s not about how it looks, it’s about how it feels. But what if I can't stop feeling bad about how it looks?

Apr 22, 2024 •

There's no such thing as a stupid question

Sometimes it's more of a comment

Feb 26, 2024 •

The hero at the end of the book

On the Stories Scientists Tell, Ursula Le Guin, and the Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Jan 14, 2024 •

A call out of vocation

Leaving on a jet plane 🎵

Oct 16, 2023 •

The Structure of my Scientific Revolution, pt. 2

How three of Kuhn's more controversial points relate to living under, and leaving, the academic paradigm

Oct 2, 2023 •

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