Editorials
I’ve contributed to various written platforms, engaging audiences through a diverse array of topics and perspectives. My work spans free-form and structured dialogues, short-form articles, and in-depth features, all centered around how science intersects with health, wellness, and culture. This diverse approach to content creation allows me to delve into the complex relationship between scientific knowledge and daily life, shedding light on how science shapes and enriches our understanding of the world. Whether offering expert insights or weaving engaging narratives, I consistently strive to make science both accessible and relevant to a wide audience, fostering a greater appreciation and understanding of its vital role in society.
DEEM Journal
My article ‘The Practice of Equitable Science and the Neurodiversity Paradigm’ is featured in Issue Three, ‘Envisioning Equity’.
Scientific Portals to When, How and Why we Dream
An essay I wrote for Lunya on the science of sleep.
“SCIENTISTS BELIEVE DREAMING IS NOTHING MORE THAN A HAPPY ACCIDENT OF REM SLEEP WITH NO ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OR MEANING – AN EPIPHENOMENON.”
Storytelling & Interviews
Massive Science
I was a long-standing contributor to Massive Science. I’ve written a number of articles on a range of topics, from psychedelic drugs to gut bacteria, and authored a science game and learning tool called the ‘Women of Science Tarot Deck’. Massive is a content and media company delivering cutting-edge scientific research and expertise on climate change, genetics, and more. Their science news, opinion, translated research, and long-form content are unrivaled in digital news media.
Klotho originates in the brain but the hype has spread worldwide. Interview with Senior editor Dan Samorodnitsky.
Grow Magazine
Write up I did with Latasha Wright on BioBus, tapping untapped potential, and improving scientific literacy in the age of COVID-19.
Women of Science Tarot Deck
I’m a contributing author of The Women of Science Tarot Deck, published by MIT Press. Brought to you by Massive Science, this unique card game helps us tell stories about our future based on principles of science. The major arcana cards feature a fundamental scientific concept, like extinction, diversity, or gravity. The 56 minor arcana cards feature inspirational women who have changed the course of STEM. We're proud to have made a feminist tarot deck that values diversity and representation.
Articles
Massive Science provides trustworthy, entertaining, and shareable science content authored by a growing community of over 2,000 knowledgeable scientists. As one of those scientists, I’ve written a number of articles on a range of topics, including genetics, gene editing, and aging, and reported on some of the most striking stories from TEDMED 2018.
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We can use genes to find serial killers, but how much more can they really tell us?
Using genetic data from over 100,000 individuals, it is now possible to do everything from finding genetic predictors of disease to tracking murderers
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When your gut bacteria talk, your brain listens and replies
It’s a conversation, one that may alter immune response and disease progression
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A protein in your brain behaves like a virus, infecting your cells with memories
Forming a protective shell, Arc moves from neuron to neuron
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Why scientists are transplanting artificially grown “brains” into living brains
Scientists are making major strides in growing fully functional “mini brains” -- but what are the ethics of such science?
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Meet Barbara McClintock, who used corn to decipher ‘jumping genes’
Through meticulous crossbreeding, she showed that DNA is far more complicated than scientists originally thought
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Can exercise counteract the effects of aging on our muscles?
New research is making it seem increasingly likely – to a point
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Meet Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astrophysicist who first noticed pulsars
Through sheer tenacity she has forged a career in a male-dominated field
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A rare disease offers clues to how genes affect social behavior
Williams syndrome is helping scientists understand the roots of sociality
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One great way to study brain diseases? ‘Mini-brains’ grown in dishes
The more complex tissue structure offers new possibilities
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Advances in gene therapy could help cure a cruel childhood illness
Most viruses make people sick. But we’re learning to use them to deliver cures to complex diseases
Science Report
Opening Our Minds
In the 1940s, the possibility that drugs like LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA could unlock and treat complex mental health disorders seemed near, but it took decades before work resumed on the study of the psychology, neuroscience, biochemistry, and impact of these drugs. I worked with a team of neuroscientists, biochemists, clinicians, and behavioral scientists to help you understand what we know today about the possibilities and risks of mental health treatment with psychedelic drugs.
Hallucinations were long thought of as diseases themselves. Though today they are often considered as one of many symptoms of disease, hallucinations themselves are not harmful and can be beneficial under the right circumstances.
Yewande Pearse, Neuroscience, The Lundquist Institute
