I have published multiple science news articles (see here) with Scientific American as a freelancer, and one opinion article as an expert on exoplanet imaging.
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I've been a weekly contributing writer for Popular Science since late 2022, publishing articles on all things astronomy and space. My PopSci publications can be found here.
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I've been writing for SPACE.com as a freelancer since 2022, covering breaking news in astronomy and spaceflight, guides to common space questions, and more. All my articles for SPACE.com can be found here.
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I've been writing for Live Science as a freelancer since January 2023, mostly writing quick hits on breaking news in astronomy and space exploration. All my articles can be found here.
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How Amateur Astronomy Has Evolved — A deep dive into the history of amateur astronomy, and how it became a separate (but deeply intertwined!) endeavor from professional science. Featuring expertise from historians and the lived experiences of many current amateur astronomers, and published in ASP Mercury.
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Oceans and Exoplanets — An essay meditating on the connections between our own ocean and possible water on planets around other stars, part of artist Shana Mabari's collection of essays to accompany one of her exhibits inspired by a residency at sea. Published by Montabonel for Alaska Press as a limited printing.
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Striving to see the high-energy sky with STROBE-X -- A feature-length article for the May/June 2022 Issue of SPIE Photonics Focus, telling the story of STROBE-X, a proposed probe-class mission to observe the Universe in X-rays. |
An Unusual Orbit: The Life and Discoveries of Carolyn Shoemaker — An essay about the life and science of astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker, published in APS News The Back Page as the winner of the 2021 APS History of Physics Essay Contest. |
Andrea Ghez and the Mysteries of the Galactic Center — The feature article for the 2020-2021 UCLA Physics & Astronomy "Reflections" Year in Review, my department's annual report. Featuring the Nobel-winning work by Andrea Ghez and collaborators, as well as information on the exciting, groundbreaking science her group is working on now!
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How to Mine an Asteroid -- A feature-length article diving into the cultural, moral, economic, and other implications of asteroid mining and the start-ups leading the race to make it a reality.
Book Review: The Milky Way — A review of astronomer and folklore-expert Moiya McTier's witty, anthropomorphic Milky Way memoir. |
Where are the moons that orbit exoplanets? — A fun explainer all about EXOMOONS: why they're cool, how we find them, and what we've found so far. |
Dark horses in the cosmos: Could primordial black holes from the beginning of time explain ‘dark matter’, the mysterious missing mass in the Universe? — A longer deep dive into the history and current prospects of primordial black holes, the underdog candidate for dark matter. |
Home is Wherever I Am — A personal essay with my thoughts on moving in academia, the changes of working-from-home during the pandemic, and how we define what "home" is, published on The Xylom.
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Where is Everyone? — some musings on the Fermi Paradox and our technological adolescence for The Orbiter Mag (originally written at ComSciCon Flagship 2019!) |
My article Life in the Universe (Within Our Lifetimes) won 3rd place in the 8th annual Joan and Arthur Seidel Griffith Observer Writing Contest in 2020. It was published in the July 2021 issue of the Griffith Observer magazine. You can read it here. |
Stellar impostors could be revealed by LIGO — Written for the NASW Student Newsroom, this piece explores bizarre "zombie"-like stars and how we may be able to learn more about them with gravitational waves.
Historical records reveal major space weather events — Coverage of the 2022 AAAS meeting for the NASW Student Newsroom, highlighting work from the session on space weather. Edited and mentored by Alex Witze. How (and why) to pitch a story that happened 100 years ago — Coverage of the ScienceWriters2021 meeting for the NASW Student Newsroom. Also published in the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of NASW ScienceWriters magazine! |
I was a regular author and consortium member with Massive Science in 2021, and all my articles can be found here.
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I have been a member of the Astrobites collaboration (with various leadership roles) since 2019. You can see all of my articles here.
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