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October 20, 2026

I am so excited to announce that I have launched Vertex Research Partners to house my writing and editing work as the practice expands! I am finally moving out of my sole proprietor comfort zone and into the world of LLCs. Save my new site: vertexresearchpartners.com. See you there!!

July 24, 2026

In the summer of 2021, I signed up to take the JHU summer residency course “In the Field: Writing about How Science Can Save Our Wild Lands” in Acadia National Park. Due to the pandemic restrictions, we instead visited our local parks and met as a class over Zoom. This summer, five years later, I finally had the chance to visit Acadia National Park in person. It was beautiful!

August 15, 2025

Today was the last day of my contract supporting the marcomms department at Rice Engineering and Computing. Obligatory photo under the awesome psychedelic ceiling in Duncan Hall!

August 6, 2025

Watercolor and ink illustration by Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

June 29, 2025

Radiation from the Fukushima accident started appearing off the West Coast of North America in 2012. Art by Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer, based on a photograph of the Seattle skyline by Jeffery Hayes (CC BY-SA 3.0)

December 8, 2024

“Once we start thinking about them, lice infest our minds even more effectively than our hair follicles.” Image credit: Watercolor and ink by Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

December 8, 2024

Head lice, which are about the size and shape of a sesame seed, suck human blood but are not known to transmit any diseases. Image credit: Watercolor and ink by Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

November 9, 2024

For parents, the physical separation from their baby can be one of the most distressing aspects of a NICU stay. Image credit: Watercolor by Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

May 1, 2024

The People’s CO2 cofounders Tanya Rogers, Slade Ham, and Rawand Rasheed spoke to me for this profile in Rice Engineering, the annual magazine of the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. They put powdered green stones in their paint to sequester CO2 straight out of the air!

January 30, 2024

A watercolor rendering of a submersible in the darkened depths of the Mediterranean, approximately 300 meters down, surveying the sea floor. Image credit: Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

January 30, 2024

Little light reaches depths of 300 meters and pressures around 30 bars (435 psi). These extremes require plant and animal life on the sea floor to adapt in fascinating ways. Image credit: Veronica Tremblay for The Science Writer

September 17, 2022

As Inside Science goes offline, my article “Jeweled Orb-Web Spiders Mimic Flowers to Catch Pollinating Insects” (published on September 17, 2020) is no longer available. If you would like to read it, I still have a PDF of the original web publication and my original submitted text.

March 19, 2021

Here, there be dragons… I mean, gators. We are now settled in Houston, Texas!

September 8, 2020

So happy to finally see this hard work in print! Read about my travel to the Dja, Cameroon, with Johns Hopkins University and learn about risks to the Congo Basin Rainforest in the current issue of Travel Africa magazine. This issue can be purchased at https://travelafricamag.com/product/issue-90/

March 27, 2020

COVID-19 is causing changes to the way people live all around the world. We’ve been practicing our social distancing when we exercise outside — before curfew, of course, after which we have to be inside our home.

January 19, 2020

I made it back! Here is evidence of the trip: me on an insulberg — “rocher” in French — in the Dja Faunal Reserve in Cameroon. The rock is metamorphic schist with quartz. As we kept walking around the rocher, we spooked a family of forest buffalo grazing on the grass.

January 2, 2020

Waiting for my taxi to the airport. See you when I get back from Cameroon on January 19!

December 8, 2019

End of semester deadlines, US immigration interviews in Moscow, upcoming travel to Cameroon, and the winter holidays — OH MY! Sprinting to the finish line. Is it 2020 yet?

October 28, 2019

My local library was having a book giveaway. I found my Halloween week reading!

July 3, 2019

New article coming soon! Excerpt: Connections among the input data, processing functions, and output predictions make up the artificial neural network: the mathematical model by which the AI will make decisions.

January 9, 2018

The Ruppell’s weaver is a cheerful yellow (male) or dark beige (female) bird. They build a woven nest that hangs from trees like a large Christmas ornament. We have a family of weavers that lives in our backyard here in Saudi Arabia.