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Confessions of a Reluctant Sales Scientist
I used to think “sales strategy” was a mysterious dark art practiced by people in blazers who can smile on command and say things like “circling back” without flinching. Meanwhile, I’d like to think myself as a scientist. An artist. A person who thinks a perfect afternoon is spending 40…
Keep readingMy Superpower Is Turning Conversations into Background Noise
It’s 2025 now. The last time I went back to China was 2014. That sentence feels fake when I say it out loud. Like it belongs to someone else’s timeline. I don’t even remember how long that trip was — I just know it wasn’t more than two months. 2014:…
Keep readingSix Years, One Tick-Borne Bacterium, and a PhD Later
I didn’t start my PhD in 2019 with a grand dream or a childhood passion for biomedical sciences. I started with a central question that immediately made it clear how little I knew: How do Ehrlichiae cause disease? At the time, I knew nothing. Not a little nothing. Like full…
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