Introduction

I figured it’d be good to contextualize my blog a bit. My background is in math and physics, but my current research interests have called for learning a ton of ecology/evolution/paleobiology recently, so many of my posts might touch on those fields. I am hoping to also use this as a way to stay in touch with the mathematical side of life, though. And I always welcome comments (via email until I change platforms or figure out how to add blog comments in Jekyll) if anything I say is inaccurate or could be clarified—learning is a huge reason why I write, after all.

Latest Posts

• 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 as an instance of a series I might call “my new favorite organism”, highlighting the wonder of learning about an organism you’ve never even heard of before.

• 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.

• Welcome!

  This is mostly here as a placeholder until I write my first actual blog post, but since you’re here, here’s a Yellow-Rumped Warbler (a.k.a. Butterbutt)! Stay tuned ;)