Content

Give Me More Medium Form Content: Enter the Riff

On the benefits of blogging, how to write a riff, and why I think more academics could benefit from creating medium-form content online.

Beginning to Rust: My Experience As An R User

I talk about my first couple of months learning the coding language Rust, ostensibly for bioinformatics reasons 🦀

Long COVID’s Viral Persistence Hypothesis: Scientific Sticking Points

Here, I discuss some of the experimental roadblocks the viral persistence theory faces.

Viruses in the Brain - Part I: Complement

The basis for some of my Master’s thesis work. How viruses in the brain can affect memory and connectivity.

Automating Paper Screening For Systematic Reviews: A Game of 20 Questions (Part III)

Using AI to screen papers for inclusion in a systematic review.

Automating Literature Searches in R (Part II)

Creating an R workflow to curate scientific text corpuses for downstream AI shenanigans.

Virology Data Science with LangChain + ChatGPT (Part I)

Testing to see if LangChain could replicate a study on vector competence.