My writing spans neuroscience education, public science communication, and the questions people are already asking about their brains, bodies, and health.
I love telling stories about science, particularly ones that shine light on the process and people behind it.
I am the author of So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist? and two other forthcoming books with Princeton University Press. I am also a columnist at The Transmitter and a freelance writer elsewhere.
Selected writing
Bringing neuroscience to rural Mexico: In conversation with Mónica López-Hidalgo
The Transmitter
How to teach students about science funding
The Transmitter
On the Teaching Tenure Track
The Chronicle of Higher Education
How Neuroscientists Are Adapting to the Ongoing Pandemic
The Simons Global Brain
There might be some problems when we try to make babies in space
Massive Science
Six lifestyle tips from parasitic bees
Massive Science
Full list of articles
How To Teach This Paper (column)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)