ESSAYS / PUBLIC SCIENTIFIC WRITING
I have been taught to write passively, watched people cite papers that do not support their claims, and seen how easily scientific recognition can become detached from the work itself. Outside the journal, I can write about those experiences in my own voice. I also write about illness, academic life and what institutions can overlook while everyone is busy measuring success.
SUBSTACK / CURRENT PUBLICATIONS
This selection reflects the articles currently visible in my public Substack archive, checked on 15 October 2026. Older links that no longer resolve are not included.
On being one in a million, losing medical school to an illness I barely understood, and spending fifteen years learning more about eosinophils than I ever intended.
A firsthand account of attacks, interrupted schooling, the medical-school path that was lost, and the uneasy distance between a laboratory count and what a patient experiences.
Read the essay on Substack ↗Film & story ↗A pointed essay about what recipients think they learn by accusing unfamiliar writers of using AI, and whose language is subjected to that scrutiny.
Why the standardized prose institutions taught us to produce now looks suspiciously like the output of the machines they condemn.
Notes on institutional expectations, ambition, and psychological wellbeing in a profession that prides itself on questioning assumptions.
A historical argument about how scientific discoveries accumulate through many hands while awards preserve a much shorter list of names.
A third-culture kid finding his place in academia.
BETWEEN CULTURES · BELONGING · ACADEMIC LIFE
Visit the book page ↗RELATED READING / ON THIS SITE
These are related reading routes, not supporting evidence for the essays. The original articles remain on Substack.
The essay about eosinophilic illness is a personal account. The separate patient-perspective page offers medical context and its own sources.
Patient perspective and evidence ↗One examines the ease of accusing someone of using a machine. The other looks at how institutional writing became so formulaic in the first place.
The first email ↗The institutional language ↗The Nobel essay raises a question of scientific credit. Explore the separate history and laboratory narratives on this site alongside it.
History of science and medicine ↗Laboratory stories ↗INVITED SCIENTIFIC COLUMNS
These drug-discovery columns belong to a separate publication record. I keep them distinct from the independently published Substack essays.
Explore the moving bibliography: documentary films behind the published work ↗
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