Language got me into academia, and I never quite found my way back out. I have a PhD in linguistics from UW–Madison — my dissertation was about idiomatic phrases, which is a technical way of saying I spent years trying to understand why certain phrases make perfect sense to everyone even though they shouldn’t. That question hasn’t entirely left me, and it turns out it travels well into data science, pottery, and aikido, all of which are also about learning to read signals you were never explicitly taught.

This site is home base. From here I write about my work as a Research Data Science Consultant at UW–Madison, where I help researchers make their work more reproducible and run BRUG, a community of R users on campus. I also write about what happens at the wheel, on the mat, and in the spaces between — the stuff that doesn’t fit a job title but shapes how I think about everything else.

Day Job

Research Data Science Consultant at UW-Madison. I work with researchers on the tools and strategies that make their work more reproducible, shareable, and visible.

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las rubieras pottery

las rubieras pottery is functional stoneware made to be held. The name comes from a lush corner of a Venezuelan farm — green against the dry season sun, almost like a mirage.

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Capital Aikikai of Wisconsin

CAoW is a dojo dedicated to the practice and promotion of the Japanese Martial Art of Aikido.

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BRUG

The Badger R User Group — a community of practice for researchers who code in R at UW-Madison.

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