All Moving Parts

Writing on biology, nature, art, and the cultural life of science. Read ↗

Recent: After Alizarin
-> Can fading plant pigment be brought back to life?

Selected Writing

Seeing Through Circles
Thomasonian · upcoming
-> Through magnifying lenses to new scales of reality

She Rose Under My Heart The Ostrich-God
All Moving Parts · 2026
-> Rethinking flightless birds

Order Is Only Abstract
Maquette · 2026
-> On art, neuroscience, and ways of seeing through microscopes
see also: From lab notes to sketchbooks

Mutating The Medium
All Moving Parts · 2025
-> A blooming future for biodesign

On Being Cells
All Moving Parts · 2025
-> One day in the eighth grade you break into trillions of pieces

Clone 44 (print-only)
The Spectatorial · 2023

The mitochondrial gene therapy that could redefine parenthood
The Strand · 2020
-> 3-way IVF, heredity, ethics, and reproductive rights

The Trouble With CRISPR
The Strand · 2020
-> Scientific and social complications of revolutionary gene editing tech

Losing faith
The Strand · 2020
-> Wavering trust in science in COVID’s early days