My research considers the neuropsychological and network effects of social media. I have an MSc in Cognition, Brain and Behavior, for which I ran an original study on the cognitive and behavioral effects of TikTok. I conducted this work as a doctoral researcher in the Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience of Psychopathology (CANoPy) Lab at the University of New Mexico. I have received scholarships from the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology and the Santa Fe Institute, where I attended the Complex Systems Summer School.
On the journalism side, my work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Banff Centre for Arts, Johns Hopkins, Forecast Forum and the New England Foundation for the Arts. I have held residencies at MASS MoCA, Forecast Festival in Berlin and SALT in Istanbul. I’ve spoken at the World Conference of Science Journalists about storytelling and at the Society of Environmental Journalists on the award-winning series I launched at The Guardian covering threats to America’s public lands. I have also been a lecturer on story craft in Northeastern University‘s journalism department.
My writing and research came together during a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, where I studied the online spread of misinformation and how technology interacts with the brain.
Before that, I could be found at The Guardian (US), Outside magazine, Here & Now, Gawker (RIP), the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary, 北大 and Northwestern University.