Science Communication
Here is a selection of a few of my favorite scicomm pieces – you can find more of my writing on my personal blog.
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why labs should take more coffee breaks
I woke up one morning in the aftermath of one of those four-hour group lab dinners and knew I had to write this post. So, I rode my bike out in the drizzling rain to the only cafe open at 5:30a.m., set up camp with my croissant and mocha and pounded out this piece in…
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bridging interfaces
We need to do a better job of intentionally putting ourselves at interfaces. A simple example from this past weekend. I’m in Boston with my sister, partly to celebrate her 23rd birthday with her (tomorrow!) and partly to be her moral support as she speaks at a medical conference. We’re staying with Chang, one of…
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loneliness, community & the church
This post has been a long time coming – a result of thoughts that have been mulling around in my brain for a while now. I wrote it in fits and starts, still struggling to squeeze time in to write in the crevasses of the eat-play-sleep schedule. Motherhood can make you feel like you simultaneously have…
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if you bake brownies [on STEM, women and the daily grind of lab work]
I was over at the Pike’s last Saturday night, the missionary family from Florida that moved here a couple months ago. The husband and teenage son were out for soccer and it was just the wife and daughter who would be home, so of course we planned some classic girl hangout time: dinner, a baking…