A running notebook, separate from the laboratory's research news. Short essays on what a scientific career is actually made of — grouped into series. Read them in any order.
The research life seen through the eyes of ten philosophers, scientists, and teachers — from Jung to Confucius.
First-person reflections on the parts of an academic life that publications, citations, and the H-index cannot measure.
Metrics measure where research has been; frameworks shape where it goes next. On the transition from measuring impact to creating direction.
Publications, citations, and the H-index are not the destination but the foundation. On how a school of thought emerges from — not instead of — rigorous science.
Everyday laboratory phenomena — batteries, entropy, interfaces — read as quiet lessons for life.
Notes sent back to the researcher I was twenty years ago.
Practical, evergreen guidance on the day-to-day craft — hypotheses, peer review, writing, figures, reproducibility, and integrity.