marginalia

Notes in the margins — the occasional long-form thought I write down when something is worth keeping. No schedule, no feed. Just thinking, set in type.

July 2026

nih rfi & my eight opinions.

My response to NIH's request for information on how it should measure and reward scientific impact — read: everything wrong with judging science by paper count.

July 2026

my omb proposed rule burnbook

A public comment on proposed changes to 2 CFR Part 200 — the unglamorous rulebook that quietly runs federal science funding.

July 2026

how not to be reviewer 2

A field guide for anxious peer reviewers, borrowed shamelessly from people who've actually thought about this.

June 2026

read it like an open book

I paid almost $10,000 to make my paper open access, and I couldn't stop thinking about the irony.

June 2026

margins in the marginalia

The patients at the edges of the distribution are carrying information about the system that the system doesn't know how to receive.

June 2026

Maybe Journals Are Just Record Labels

A throwaway text to a musician friend...

June 2026

Telescoping Time

An exercise in Legacy from my OpEd Project Public Voices Fellowship — looking at one life through four widening lenses, from one hundred years down to one year from now.