About

This blog is the humble beginning of an aspiring science communicator. (That’d be me.) The fields I’ll mainly cover are life science, neuroscience and linguistics, but I am interested in lots more. Here’s why I’m doing this.

Science is awesome. I find science so incredibly awesome that it would be silly to go do it for a living, however contradicting that sounds. To me, ‘being a scientist’ means doing research, which in life science means standing in a lab coat all day. Looking at one little process in one particular cell type in many little petri dishes, waiting for cells to grow / Western blots to form / samples to shake / etc. just doesn’t appeal to me.

Basically, I am too interested in too many things and too impatient to do research. But I am also incredibly curious – annoyingly so, when you get to know me personally – and I want to know all about what’s happening in the exciting world of science. When I found out that I do want to work in science, I started looking for other ways to do it. That’s when I found out I want to be a science communicator.

Science is continuously advancing in its quest for enlightenment about this universe, our planet, its inhabitants, down to ‘things’ (sorry, I’m not a physicist) tinier even than atoms, and I think everyone should be able to know about it. People as curious as myself who haven’t got access to the weird jargon us scientists use to sound smart at cocktail parties should also be allowed to understand the marvels of the world around us. And on a more science-evangelistic and semantically confusing note: people who don’t yet know that and what they want to know should be able to know so that they can decide if they want to know more.

So that’s what I want to do: I want to bring science to the people, and invite people to the world of science. The plan is to advance this mission far beyond this site some day, but to borrow from Lao-Tzu, a Chinese philosopher: every writer’s career begins with a single blog.