See my research page for my academic publications. Everything that follows on this page is just for fun.
Personal Essays
Berkeley Science Review
The BSR is an outstanding magazine and website devoted to educating the public about the amazing science happening at Berkeley and beyond. It is written, edited and produced entirely by UC Berkeley students and postdocs. I was the founding editor of the BSR blog in 2010. A collection of my writing for the BSR is linked below for your enjoyment.
I switched research groups – and lived to tell the tale
Omar Yaghi’s scientific empire, and the growing trend of satellite labs
Teach graduate students to manage and lead
Rats learn to walk again after severe spinal cord injury
Do creative children become creative scientists?
Trusting your fellow scientist
Cleaning the air by cleaning the ocean
The power of olfactory associations, or why I can never drink peppermint tea again
How I learned to stop worrying and love WikiLeaks
News from the Kepler observatory: our galaxy is really, really big
You can’t spell “prescience” without “science”
Surprises found in the “Science Hall of Fame”
Letters to a pre-scientist, part 1
Mascheroni (Ph.D., ’68) indicted in conspiracy case
Gaming for good: human thought beats computer algorithms at solving protein structures
Funding science in a slow economy