Reframing "disappointing" data at Life Science Alliance
Tackling the bias against negative results [2026]
Read at Life Science AllianceEditorial
Message from the new Executive Editor
Introducing myself to the readers of Life Science Alliance [2025]
Read at Life Science AllianceYou are the most valuable reagent in the lab
Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic [2021]
Read at MBoCThe surprising importance of informal seminars
[2019]
Read at ASCBHow to enjoy feeling stupid after you switch fields
[2019]
Read at ASCBPersonal Writing
Decay and the Metabolism of Campout
Contribution to the Honcho Campout Zine [2026]
ReadA Sequence of Letters
Learning object-oriented ontology from the Human Genome Project [2024]
ReadReading Donna Haraway during Lockdown
The flow of bodies inside other bodies [2020]
ReadGenome Cartography
Our genomes are both a code and a landscape [2018]
ReadWhat does your genome look like?
A signpost at the intersection of data visualization and biology [2017]
ReadMicroscopy & Research
MDCK cells during branching morphogenesis
MDCK cells during branching morphogenesis
Collagen gel
T cell in a microwell
T cells in a microwell
Human mammary epithelial cells
Red-blue stereoimage of epithelial cells in collagen
Time-lapse image of a crawling cell
About
I am a scientist, writer, and editor thinking about how we investigate and relate to the living world. I spent 15 years in academic research at UCSF, the University of Chicago (where I did my PhD), and MIT. My research focused on the cell biology of cancer, cellular biophysics, and the immune system. Since 2021 I have been a Scientific Editor at the Rockefeller University Press, starting at the Journal of Cell Biology, and now leading the affiliated journal Life Science Alliance.
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