Here I intend to post a mix of writings and any relevant updates on my scientific career.

Latest Posts

• Interview with Victor Ortega-Jiménez: SICB Student Journalism article published!

  My funding mode for attending the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology’s 2025 meeting was through their student journalism program. I chose to interview Victor Ortega-Jiménez, now a professor at UC Berkeley. The piece below, about his research on the mechanics of jumping water striders, is the result. I am quite happy with how it came out! Click the image below to read.

• Cool coverage of spinning dragonflies + quotes from yours truly!

  I wanted to share some lovely coverage from Elizabeth Pennisi, reporter at Science, of two awesome talks I attended at SICB 2025 (Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology). Partially because I was quoted in the body and the title! But it’s also just quite a cool phenomenon that I definitely was not aware of prior, and I would love it if more people were aware because it’s yet another reason to love dragonflies! The TL;DR is that dragonflies occasionally dunk in the water and then spin super quickly to dry themselves off. But you should really read the whole article below, and watch the amazing videos by Huai-Ti Lin and his lab!

• My New Favorite Organism: The ogre-faced, net-casting spider

  NOTE: This article, in a shorter form, originally appeared as a Halloween special-edition “Creature Feature” for The Ethogram. I expanded it for a fellowship application and decided to toss it up here.

• Creature Feature: Aggregating Anemone

  Read my first real science writing piece, a “creature feature” on the aggregating anemone, Anthopleura elegantissima! Published by The Ethogram, the official blog of UC Davis’ Animal Behavior Graduate Group.