Thoughts from San Francisco about science and being a scientist
As long as Trump is in the White House it seems that every week is a new low. With ICE killing people in Minnesota, Trump trying to run Venezuela and Putin on the Peace Board for Gaza? The good news is that people are protesting! If you need a sign for your protest, for your [ ]
Hello readers, I got big updates! Some of you already know this, but it’s getting more real and more official every month: my family and I have left the US and moved to France! A few months ago I quit my job and a few weeks ago we sold our house in San Francisco. Last [ ]
When I was seventeen I had the incredible opportunity to visit my aunt who ran a small rural clinic in Zimbabwe. I loved the savanna landscapes and the local food (like sadza). However, a few weeks into my stay, I got sick. My aunt took a small blood sample and with a simple microscope, she [ ]
After having lived in San Francisco for 9 years (and in the US for 15), we decided to move back to Europe and landed in France. More about that in a future post! For now, I wanted to share that our wonderful house is for sale.I loved living in this house in the Excelsior. Let [ ]
I am so happy to share a new paper and a new video (see below). The paper describes a simple mathematical model that describes levels of drug resistance. I called the model the Resistance-Acquisition-Purifying-Selection model (RAPS). While the model is simple, it wasn t easy to write the paper or to get it published. Before submitting [ ]
Depressed about the state of the world? Print a poster for your window or to go to a protest! I am sharing two new designs below! Here s a list of cities with protests on July 4th 2025: https://www.newsweek.com/map-lists-cities-trump-protests-2092556. Here is information about the July 17th protests (the day that John Lewis died 5 years ago) [ ]
To change minds, we need to reach people with our message. A group of graduate students came up with the idea to encourage scientists to publish letters in local newspapers in towns where they have a connection. The goal was to reach people outside of our academic bubbles. If you work at a university or [ ]
How it started Around 2018, undergraduate students in the Biology and Chemistry departments of San Francisco State University had the option to participate in the PINC computing minor, and it wasn’t long before graduate students began asking for similar opportunities. At the time, several of us computational scientists were already collaborating on initiatives like a [ ]
Update April 18th. I am horrified by what is happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported to a prison in El Salvador while not being accused or convicted of a crime. BringKilmarHome_2pages.pdf BringKilmarHome_4pages.pdf BringKilmarHomeLessInk_2pages.pdf BringKilmarHomeLessInk_4pages.pdf HandsOffFreeSpeech_2pages.pdf HandsOffFreeSpeech_4pages.pdf Update April 12: A judge has ruled that…
Hi everyone, I am not in the US at the moment and I am sad to miss the Stand Up for Science demonstration on March 7th! I hope you will go, and it make it easier for you, I made some easy-to-print signs! I made 7 different poster designs, with for each of the designs [ ]