Writing

Opinions & Notes

Shorter pieces — reactions to new papers, things I've changed my mind about, questions I can't stop thinking about. Click any post to read it in full.

Dec 12, 2024
Opinion
On the reproducibility crisis in sleep and memory research
A lot of the canonical findings don't replicate cleanly. Here's what I think we're getting wrong in experimental design.
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Nov 28, 2024
Paper Reaction
What a new sleep-cognition paper gets right (and wrong)
A close read of the November 2024 Nature Neuroscience paper on theta oscillations and working memory during NREM.
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Oct 15, 2024
Opinion
Sleep tracking apps: useful tool or noise machine?
Consumer wearables are being used in research now. The signal quality has a lot of implications we should be talking about openly.
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Sep 3, 2024
Opinion
Why I changed my mind about Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep
Two years ago I recommended it to everyone. Now I hand them a list of corrections. What changed, and why it matters for public science communication.
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Jul 20, 2024
Field Notes
Notes on doing literature reviews as an undergrad
Workflow, tools, and the mental models I use to stop drowning in PDFs and start building actual frameworks.
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