The essence of Quintessence of Dust: welcome to Blaugust 2024

Today begins Blaugust 2024, an annual blogging festival that is fun and challenging. Last year I made it halfway through August with a post every day—this year I'm aiming for 20 posts for the month.

The festival aims to create and maintain a community, and so the main theme this year is for everyone to write an "introduction to me and my blog" post. (Actual quote from the organizer: "While I am not going to make you wear nametags to orientation, it would be lovely if you spent some time with that very first blog post to introduce yourself and the kind of content that you create.")

About me:

Professionally, I'm a biologist and a writer, with deep experience as an editor (the curating kind). I like to work in intense scientific environments, alongside people doing the kind of research that intends to change the world. I haven't worked in a lab for more than 10 years but I sometimes daydream about going back somehow.

I like to write and think about all aspects of biology, especially about evolution, genetics, and neuroscience.

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