PinnedOn organizing a national March for Science, a reflection 5 years laterReliving the moment Five years ago to this day, I was standing backstage watching 100k people united at one of the largest, if not THE largest rally to support science as a common good and advocate for evidence-based policy making. …Science4 min readScience4 min read
Dec 15, 2022Revamped Blog, powered by SvelteFirst off, congrats to the Svelte team on getting Sveltekit to 1.0! 🎉 I wanted to write a quick piece about my blog migration. I’m currently writing a longer, broader piece about my digital migration. tl;dr, data sovereignty and data preservation are very important and I don’t want to be locked into a platform. I’ll put into practice a concept from the IndieWeb community: POSSE — Publish Own Site Syndicate Elsewhere. I will first post my content on here then I’ll likely take a snippet of it and post it on a bigger platform (e.g. my Medium page) to point it back to my own blog.Tech1 min readTech1 min read
Feb 22, 2022Brainstorming VieThis year, I’ve been thinking about how I could fulfill one of my resolutions to write more and the year is already off to a stumbling start: One plan was to write about my runs, which is another goal of mine, but I realized that daily debriefs were good for…Web Development5 min readWeb Development5 min read
Jan 6, 20192018 Travel in Review2018 was a very busy year for me: I bounced between coasts a far bit, moved back to NYC in April, and spent a good chunk of time in Europe. …Travel6 min readTravel6 min read
Sep 21, 2018The exercise of writingI initially started this blog with one goal in mind: get better at writing. Writing has never been a strong suit of mine, and I’ve always felt dread when I had to do it. For me, I tend to get in my head about these things: Will people judge me…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Jan 18, 2018Speaking engagements following the March for Science eventThe March actually happened! We managed pulled it off 🎉, which was no small feat. Things operated at a frenetic pace from late January til the summer, supported wholly on volunteers. With respect to the DC march, we had around 50 people who really dropped pretty much everything they were…Science7 min readScience7 min read
Dec 26, 2017Museums + MemoriesA year ago yesterday, Christmas Day 2016, while waiting to see Hidden Figures, I went to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and had the opportunity of seeing an exploratory exhibition on how we document, preserve, and pass on memories generationally. As a scientist, I have always been fascinated…Museums3 min readMuseums3 min read
May 30, 2017GOSH @ Santiago de ChileIn March, researchers, technologists, hackers, citizen scientists, and just plain curious folk came together in Santiago Chile for the…Travel3 min readTravel3 min read
May 11, 2017A Brief Share on my Mozilla Science FellowshipThe Mozilla Science Fellowship applications are open until May 14th! I wanted to share a few of my experiences as a Fellow so far. Also, look out #TeonMozAMA on Twitter Thursday, May 11th (tbd). …Mozilla2 min readMozilla2 min read
Apr 8, 2017MozFellows at OpenCon SFOriginally published at science.mozilla.org. Cross-posted with permission. Bruno, Danielle, Kirstie and Teon, fellows of Mozilla Science Lab, are now over halfway through their Mozilla Science Fellowship so we all came together for a workweek in San Francisco in February to share skills, give and get feedback on our projects, and…Science4 min readScience4 min read
