Jake Young

I am an MD-PhD student focusing on Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Yes, my parents are quite proud, but I assure you that at present it qualifies me for very little other than arguing the finer points of tissue culture. Despite abject lack of qualifications, this blog will at least attempt to delve deeply into science and other things. Actually, I hope for that to someday be my epitaph: "Jake, he talked a lot about science and other things." At least that would be better than: "Jake, he passed out regularly in the bushes."

Guest Bloggers

Kara Contreary

I am an MRes/PhD student in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Nowadays I spend a significant amount of time wrestling with Matlab code and building street cred by waxing philosophical about Edgeworth boxes, but hopefully someday I will graduate to a higher level of thinking. Possibly Edgeworth cubes. Jake obviously has the goods on me, but I've known him since he had green hair. And yes, he did occasionally pass out in the bushes.

Kate Seip

I am a PhD student in Neuroscience at Rutgers University. When not complaining about the weather, I can typically be found climbing atop soap boxes, bragging about the relative cost of the PATH trains compared to the MTA subway system, and going on obscenely long runs around NYC to "work off lab stress," which I've convinced myself is adaptive but probably just means that I urgently need to graduate. I currently co-chair a large inter-institutional lecture series, the Science Communication Consortium, focused on stimulating discussion on how scientific research and theory can be communicated effectively to improve public scientific literacy. It also teaches scientists to speak good.