Before I figured out that I wanted to be a writer, I studied biology at Columbia University and worked as a cell biology researcher at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

I was lucky enough to land a job covering the science beat for a big daily newspaper – when most of them still hired science writers – and spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow during the 2012-13 academic year. I freelanced for a while, blogged for the Association of Health Care Journalists, and produced an online curriculum for AHCJ on the social determinants of health. I’ve also worked as a science writer for the University of Utah and Oregon Health & Science University.

This blog is a sort of research notebook, a place to record data and observations about science and medicine, the journalism business, and sometimes other interests (rock climbing, growing food, building stuff).