Work at the intersection of science, policy and philosophy. Originals are linked; everything is archived here so it outlasts the platforms that first hosted it.
Essay
28 February 2026
b-scientists
The material debt hidden inside your phone: thirty to forty elements, the human and ecological cost of mining lithium and cobalt, and the chemistry of sodium batteries and urban mining that could begin to pay it back.
Podcast
22 January 2026
Spotify · episode 3 of 3
The reflective breakdown: how the module was designed to communicate the science of protein misfolding and neurodegenerative disease, and what actually landed.
Sci-comm D&D arc
Podcast
15 January 2026
Spotify · episode 2 of 3
The party advances the misfolding storyline. Tabletop roleplay as the vehicle; I play in the campaign.
Sci-comm D&D arc
Podcast
31 October 2025
Spotify · episode 1 of 3
A Dungeons & Dragons module built around a neurodegenerative-disease storyline — the science smuggled in through the adventure rather than explained at the reader.
Sci-comm D&D arc
Video
7 August 2025
SCOPE Policy · NMC 2025 final project
A short documentary on Puerto Rico's failing fossil-fuel grid and the grassroots cooperatives building reliable renewable microgrids themselves.
Essay
3 January 2024
Penn Science Policy & Diplomacy Group
How industry and politics shaped modern medicine — from Purdue's OxyContin machine and the benzodiazepine surge to the psychedelic renaissance and the cultural debt owed to healers like María Sabina.
Essay
29 August 2023
Penn Science Policy & Diplomacy Group
Three centuries of the scientist on screen — from Frankenstein's mad scientist to Shuri and Oppenheimer — and what those portrayals do to public trust.
Essay
5 August 2017
Ciencia Puerto Rico
A first-year's plain-language tour through his own research title — self-assembly of magnetic colloids with shifted dipoles — and what it was like to meet science as a stranger.
Essay
3 July 2017
Ciencia Puerto Rico
How the UPR student strike detoured a Puerto Rican undergrad into an improvised New York summer — a short, wry travel story.