Scientific curiosity
The questions that keep me at the terminal.
The RNA hiding inside your DNA
A million RNA letters sit inside every human genome. They are not scattered, and they are not just damage.
Read postBuilding FeatureCorr: lessons from a small R package
A script became a published package. The statistics were the easy part.
Read postWhat a strand bias actually tells you about replication
Leading and lagging strands leave different fingerprints. Reading them takes more care than it looks.
Reading a pan-cancer correlation without fooling yourself
Thirty-three cancer types will hand you a significant result whether or not one is there.
Self improvement
Getting better on purpose, at the bench and away from it.
Bench to terminal: what pipetting taught me about data
Four years at the bench before my first pipeline. It changed how I read every dataset since.
Read postTraining for a half marathon while writing a thesis
Two things that both demand every morning, and what happened when I stopped treating that as a conflict.
What mentoring five students taught me about my own gaps
You find out how well you understand something the first time you have to hand it to someone else.
Diving into my own mind
Attention, stillness, and what turns up when the noise drops.
Sitting still with seven hundred people
A campus-wide meditation, and the strange arithmetic of a room that large going quiet at once.
Two years running a well-being society
What it actually takes to make stillness available to a thousand students who did not ask for it.
What meditation changed about how I do science
Mostly it changed how long I can stay with a problem before reaching for a distraction.
Life as observation
A travel diary. Treating your own life as the field site.
Four cities, one decade: Mumbai to Albuquerque
Every move rearranged what I thought was fixed about how people live.
Notes from the high desert
New Mexico is the emptiest place I have lived, and the loudest at sunset.
A field guide to moving countries
The paperwork is the easy part. Nobody warns you about the rest.