My actual day job involves figuring out how germs (ok, "bacteria") that live inside soybean plants manage to swim through the soil. Personally, I think this is incredibly fascinating and really important work! But let's be honest, the only people who care about this are other microbiologists/biophysicists.
But I do care very much about getting science to the people, about understanding the interactions between science and society, and generally just think the natural world is crazy awesome.
Public Health
An interactive infographic and effective giving calculator for some of the most effective life-saving interventions ever deployed.
Published Writings
Essays and such.
Interactive Models
Bret Victor asks people to stop drawing dead fish. Applied to biology, James Somers complains how we teach it all wrong; with lots of facts and names instead of as dynamic technologies of mind-blowing capabilities. Thanks to the marvels of generative AI, we can do a lot better than teaching biology with dead fish; we can even do better than showing videos of swimming fish. I made a few simple examples to show what science education could look like in the era of LLMs. Until then, every science teacher should be using NetLogo.
Stuff I Like
I love me a good popular science. Since I haven't done much of it myself, I might as well share some of my favorites (at least among living content producers; my favorite book list will be another project).