Year five of Halloween science is on! Join me for a spooktacularly safe virtual talk about the haunting of Pacific Science Center, sensory illusions, and how your brain can get tricked by your senses. RSVP here at PacSci's website.
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Science outreach at home
About 1/3 of the world's population, including me, are under various levels of stay at home orders. This is a difficult time for everyone, and I know there's a special challenge for teachers and parents looking for some level of continuity in their children's educations. A couple of things from me that are available right …
Science on Tap: February 24
I'll be at the comedy edition of Ravenna Third Place Book's Science on Tap next Monday, February 24! The theme is "the humorous side of research" - you might be able to guess what my take on that will entail. Doors open at 5:30 and seats are expected to fill. No advance ticket sales or …
Featured around the internet, fall 2019
Thanks for featuring me, everyone! This article (in which I am quoted) describes a project I worked on as a graduate student. I was featured in Pomona College's Alumni Career Stories talking about my life after college. To promote my Halloween science talk, I was on Pacific Science Center's podcast. Amazingly, they already had that …
Double, double, toil and trouble
Double, double, toil and trouble,Fire burn and science bubble!Start it with a trick or treat,Then at Seattle Center we will meet.Macbeth... ish Join me for the fourth science Halloween at Pacific Science Center for the neuroscience of Macbeth's witches! I'll be dissecting Macbeth's decisions from his first encounter with the witches to its tragic conclusion. …
Halloween 2018 – Neuroscience of Werewolves
Better late than never, it's Halloween 2018! I am delighted to present Halloween 2018 Science in the City at Pacific Science Center: Welcome New Werewolves. Enjoy fun learning about senses, motor control, comparative anatomy, and selections from the variety of tough, hilarious questions from the audience. https://youtu.be/kYmuB_QcVTY If you're an author, and you use some …
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Science Halloween #3: Bad Moon Rising
I'll be returning to Pacific Science Center's Halloween programming for the third year running, this time with more howling. Come see me on October 30 at 7pm for an orientation session for new werewolves. Those bitten on the October 23 full moon, their friends and family, and all others are welcome! Appropriate for all ages, …
the doctor is in
I defended! I still can't believe the big day has come and gone. I thought about writing a lengthy narrative reflection of my time in graduate school, the best and hardest experiences, and everything I've learned that wasn't about brains. But you don't want to read that and I don't want to write it. One …
Introduction to Neural Engineering
Through my involvement with the CSNE at UW, I was able to teach a six-week course on neural engineering for high school students in summer 2016 and again in 2017. I've now turned that live course into an online version, which includes six hours of video lectures, instructions for three hands-on demos, homework assignments, and …
Proof: in retrospect
In summary: I'm so glad I took a chance on this project, it was a hell of a learning curve but I got through it, and I can't wait to do it again. From my initial offhand comment as an audience member at the Pocket Theater - "oh hey, I could finally do this wacky …
