An academic talk about the various aspects of manuscript writing: from keeping an audience-centric mindset to telling a compelling story.

A research talk about my dissertation research in Dr. Richard Lenski's lab at Michigan State University.

It All Begins Here

Scientific research is sometimes non-reproducible, but this fact does not always point to misconduct or deceit. On the contrary, our tendency toward confirmation bias and unintended practice of researcher "degrees of freedom" are commonplace; and so too is the likelihood of plucking out spurious correlations in the age of Big Data. We must therefore take great care to not mislead ourselves.