Articles
Federal Law Makes Weed Research Complicated. Can A Van Help? 2024. Illustration: Sahra Denner
How Utah Scientists Rang The Alarm About The Great Salt Lake, 2023. Photo Credit: D. Peterschmidt
Science Friday
Federal Law Makes Weed Research Complicated. Can A Van Help?
What Did Seeing An Eclipse Do For America?
How Ham Radio Operators Do Eclipse Science
Your Tick Bite Can Help Scientists Map The Spread Of Disease
How Hawaiian Voices Add To The Conversation On Deep Sea Mining
How Utah Scientists Rang The Alarm About The Great Salt Lake
‘Bengal Water Machine’ Data Offers Potential For Increasing Food Security
Advances In Understanding Depression Offer Potential New Treatments
Expert Q&A: How To Manage COVID Risk As New Variants Emerge
The Open Notebook
Key Questions for Journalists to Consider Before Using Generative AI
Weaving Indigenous Science into Reported Stories
Jessica Hamzelou Charts the Path to Legitimizing Longevity Medicine
Teen Vogue
This Hannukah, How Do I Talk To My Grandparents About Israel?
Sapient Journal
The Stories Hamadryas Baboons Tell, Or The Ones We Tell Them
It’s A Gorilla Baby Boom!
The Columbia Spectator
Radio/Podcast
How the Cherokee Nation Is Saving Culturally Significant Seeds, 2023. Illustration by Kindra Swafford for Science Friday.
Science Friday
These are segments that I produced or co-produced for Science Friday’s radio show.
Meet 3 Leaders Addressing Local Conservation Problems
Inside The ‘Creepy’ Procedure That Taps Into Young Blood
‘Slingshot’ Imagines A Yearslong Space Mission Gone Wrong
The Tornado Science To Know Before Seeing ‘Twisters’
Using A Lab On Wheels To Study Weed From Dispensaries*
Should The Aliens In “65” Have Known About Earth’s Dinos?*
Flame Retardant Could Be Made From Discarded Cocoa Husks
Keeping Tabs On Tick Bites*
Why This Scientist Shares Vulnerable Career Moments*
How The Cherokee Nation Is Saving Culturally Significant Seeds
Can Utah’s Great Salt Lake Be Saved Before It’s Too Late?*
A Fish By Any Other Name: Inside The Effort To Bring ‘Copi’ To Dinner
*I’m a guest or host on this segment!
“Is It Serious?”
I was a research assistant on this show from Offscrip Media for their first season.
What’s the difference between sadness and depression?
What do medical TV shows get wrong?
What is personalized medicine?
How much Ambien is too much Ambien?
Newsletter Projects
Moon Mail
“Moon Mail” is a limited run newsletter series designed to help subscribers make a meaningful experience from the April 2024 total solar eclipse. It was a collaboration with freelance writer Marisa Charpentier delving into the science that makes eclipses special, culminating in an observation activity for the event.
“Science Goes to the Movies” is a reported newsletter that covers the science that influences movies and TV shows—whether they’re about science or not.
Recent installments:
The Academy Award For Science You’ve Never Heard Of
‘Common Side Effects’ And The Race To Save Invisible Fungi
‘Y2K’ Fictionalizes The Past Cyber Threat—But More Are Coming
‘Salem’s Lot’ And The Bloody Fountain Of Youth
“The Substance” And The Search For Human Regeneration
‘Slingshot’ And The Mental Battle Of Long Space Missions
‘Twisters’ Highlights The Turbulent Language Of Twin Tornadoes
Should The Aliens In “65” Have Known About Earth’s Dinos?
Was The Nostalgic Music In ‘Argylle’ Crucial To The Plot?
Sincerely, Science
Science Goes To The Movies
“Sincerely, Science” is a limited run reported newsletter series profiling scientists on their career journeys and highlighting the human element of the scientific process.
Xiaodong Lin-Siegler On Failing Upward
Rachel Lupien On Talking It Out
Matt Covington On Facing Fears
Murry Burgess On Inclusive Field Safety
Marisa Tellez On The Croc Within
Kevin Perry On Doing The Right Thing
Digital Cephalopod Coloring Book
Cephalopod of the day is a limited-run newsletter automation that I originated to bring together Science Friday’s Cephalopod Week programming. This year, our newsletter featured a daily digital coloring page of a cephalopod, paired with a story about the science of the creature.
Check out the intro to the series and download the coloring pages.