Essays and field notes on nature, culture, science, and art. Read on Substack
Selected Writing
Seeing Through Circles
-> Through magnifying lenses to new scales of reality
Thomasonian
She Rose Under My Heart The Ostrich-God
-> Rethinking flightless birds
All Moving Parts
Order Is Only Abstract
-> Art, neuroscience, ways of seeing through microscopes
Maquette
-> see also: From lab notes to sketchbooks
Mutating The Medium
-> A blooming future for biodesign
All Moving Parts
-> in collaboration with Nick Desnoyer
On Being Cells
-> One day in the eighth grade you break into pieces
All Moving Parts
Clone 44 (print)
The Spectatorial
The mitochondrial gene therapy that could redefine parenthood
-> 3-way IVF, heredity, ethics, and reproductive rights
The Strand
The Trouble With CRISPR
-> Revolutionary gene editing tech and its complications
The Strand
Losing faith
-> Wavering trust in science in COVID’s early days
The Strand