Hi, I'm Joel.

I write and edit science for a living — moving between the precise, citation-heavy register of a journal manuscript and the plain, story-driven register a general reader will actually finish.

Over the course of my career I've published more than a million words across academic and lay outlets, and I've spent as much time on the editing side of the desk as the writing side — preparing other researchers' manuscripts for submission, tightening arguments, and getting papers past peer review.

My particular interest is the gap between what researchers know and what everyone else understands. Most scientific writing is built to survive peer review, not to be read by a general audience — and most science communication drifts far enough from the source material that it stops being accurate. I work in the space between the two: rigorous enough for the researcher, readable enough for the reader.

If you need a manuscript that will hold up under review, a grant proposal that makes a clear case, or an article that explains real research to people outside the field, that's the work I do.