My research on social media and the brain takes place in the Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience of Psychopathology (CANoPy ) Lab at the University of New Mexico, where I’m pursuing a PhD in Cognition, Brain and Behavior. On the journalism side, I’m currently the recipient of a 2024 Johns Hopkins Good Science Writing Fellowship. In 2024 and 2023 I received grants from UNM to study social media and the addictive aspects of its design. In 2022, a series I helped develop for the Guardian on America’s Water Crisis was recognized for excellence in data journalism and as one of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas. From 2020-2021, I received grants from Forecast in Berlin and the New England Foundation for the Arts, as well as residencies at MASS MoCA and SALT in Istanbul. In the 2018-19 academic year, I taught story craft in the journalism department at Northeastern University. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 2017-2018, I looked at the online spread of misinformation and how technology interacts with the brain. 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 covering threats to America’s public lands. Before that, I could be found at The Guardian (US), Outside magazine, Here & Now, Gawker, the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary, 北大 and Northwestern University.