I love telling stories about science, particularly ones that shine light on the process and people behind it.

I recently wrote a book, titled So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? The goal is to give aspiring neuroscientists honest, informative insight about our field, as well as education and careers through it. You can find it on Amazon (Amazon Affiliates Link, #ad) or on the Columbia University Press Store!

You can get a glimpse of what the book contains by watching my book talk for Harvard Brain Initiative or reading some of my articles for The Spike: including, “Why you should (or shouldn’t) get a PhD in neuroscience,” “There’s no such thing as a computational person“,and “Preparing for a neuroscience PhD.”

There is also a review of my book in the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education.

If you’re curious about the process of writing a book, or thinking of pitching your own, check out this interview I did with the Signals blog.

I’ve also written for a few other outlets:

Simons Foundation

• How Neuroscientists Are Adapting to the Ongoing Pandemic
• In Foraging Tasks, New Opportunities to Study the Brain’s Complexity
• The Self-Organized Movement to Create an Inclusive Online Neuroscience School
• Discoveries of Rotational Dynamics Add to Puzzle of Neural Computation

Massive Science

• People ask about my experiments on mice. The answers are… complicated.
• Want to learn how brains go awry? First, we must learn how they work
• Five facts about Mary Putnam Jacobi, medical pioneer and suffragette
• Why designer drugs continue to be elusive

(a complete list of my posts for Massive can be found here)

NeuWrite San Diego

• They’re Right In Front of You: The story of the neuroscientist that almost wasn’t and the role of advocacy within neuroscience
• Truly Blissful Brains
• Birds, Brains, and Boats: The Harvey Karten Story

(a complete list of my posts for NeuWrite SD can be found here)

Other

• There is no such thing as a computational person
• Why you should (or shouldn’t) get a PhD in Neuroscience
• The PhD picnic guidelines, rewritten
• The challenge to define cortex published on PLOS Neuro Blogs
• Gratitude

      (a complete list of my posts on Medium can be found here)

Proteintech

• Can a bacterial ‘brain’ control a robot?
• Investigating Kidney Development with Proteintech’s Six2 Antibody
• Don’t Sweat It: EDA Signaling in Eccrine Gland Development
• The Neurochemistry of Parkinson’s Disease