Writing

Field notes

I keep this corner mostly to think out loud — but also because the process of doing science looks nothing like its highlight reel, where every grant is single-digit-percentiled and every paper arrives fully formed from thin air. These are notes on the messier, more honest reality: the science I'm excited about, and the parts of the academic pipeline nobody hands you a manual for.

• December 2023 Science

  MAPping to build a better lookup table

  Procrastinating on the manuscript by writing about it: what WaveMAP is actually doing when it sorts spikes into cell types, and why that lookup table is worth the trouble.

• 2019 The pipeline

  Interviewing for grad school

  What interview weekends are really like on the other side of the table — and how to show up as yourself instead of the version you think they want.

• August 2019 The pipeline

  Applying to grad school

  An honest, start-to-finish account of my application process — the choices that paid off, the ones that didn't, and what I'd tell someone starting now.

More on the way as I dig out from the dissertation.