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Why Scientists in Solidarity Exists — and How You Can Join

October 23, 2025

The Moment We’re In Science—and democracy—are under attack. Authoritarian power is consolidating, reshaping universities, defunding research, and putting...

Science Communication Won't Save Us. Collective Action Will.

As authoritarianism grows in the U.S., many scientists feel the impulse to respond with more science communication. We start podcasts, give public talks, and...

Thank You Letter to My Past Self

Dear Nic, Yeah. That's your name. Or at least it is now. I know when you first heard it, it sparked something in you. Ale says it first, and something in you...

Imagining Otherwise for My Scientific Community

December 16, 2024

As a science communication researcher and community organizer, I’ve been concerned about the potential defunding of social justice efforts in science in 2025.

Pretending we don't see race in science communication maintains inequity

Findings from a study of race-evasive ideology in science communication fellowship directors

Working for Racial Justice and Coming Back to my Southern Roots

How Shared Interest Storytelling has Helped Me Embrace All of Who I Am

New Comic: Art-Science Collaborations, Explained by Bunnies

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science has just published a new comic of mine in The Link. You can check it out here. In the comic, bunnies present...

Pleasure Activism and Science Communication

Photo by Sergey N on Unsplash Science graduate students–disenchanted with their careers–often ask me for coffee. These are usually students with one or more...

I’ve been taking a creative nonfiction writing class. Below is a piece I wrote for our memoir assignment on dropping out of science academia. Not This I...

How art-science collaborations help us confront social crises

Hi all! I’m working on a book chapter about how collisions between art and science can help us confront society’s most pressing issues. Are there ways you...

From The Link: A Comic about My Research

February 28, 2024

Reposting a comic I made for The Link about my research

Dissertation Poem

January 23, 2024

A poem written from data from my dissertation.

Joining the SciComm Identities Project

January 11, 2024

I’m pleased to announce I’m joining the SciComm Identities Project as a postdoctoral researcher. Not only do I get to work with some of my favorite...

December 7, 2023

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