Thanks to everyone both near and far who gave me the unswerving courage to continue spinning on the long, dusty road to discovery.

🚲 Persist.

"There would be no comfortable houses for the mass of the people, no railway, no wireless, no protection against epidemics, no cheap books, no culture and no enjoyment of art for all...” -Einstein

“The growth of knowledge depends entirely on disagreement.”
-Karl Popper

"and what we owe to that freedom which our ancestors have won for us after hard struggles. Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur and no Lister..."

Today, the ghosts of the past have the present to give. To invoke the words of Einstein:

“If we want to resist the powers which threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom we must keep clearly before us what is at stake ..."

🇩🇰 TAK Danmark, for at fremme friheden til at (ud)forske med åbne øjne, sind og hjerter. Det er jeg ekstremt taknemmlig for 🇩🇰

🚴‍♂️ From first hosting me as a wobbly-wheeled Cornell University exchange student in 2010, a US-Fulbright Denmark fellow in 2012, a new PhD student at the University of Copenhagen in 2018, to now welcoming me back as a more steady-wheeled Associate Professor in 2025 🚲....

🇺🇸 As an American, I’m also grateful to give back to 🇩🇰 Denmark’s innovative research environment, which has been equally formative for my scientific development as it has my ability to ride a bike!

It is both a privilege and the beating heart of science to be able to ask hard, open-ended questions on the uncertain road to answers without fear, favor or censorship. We all have much to learn from toddlers in that regard 🐥

🌐 My research program aims to monitor and support humanity’s adaptation to growing planetary stressors on the one spaceship we all share 🌍

Thanks Ari 😢

Thanks Colin, gut punch of a week.

Appreciate the support Esteban. Looking forward to catching up soon on the other side of this!

Thanks Scott. Mostly just looking forward to getting back to doing science wherever and whenever that may be, hopefully soon 🙏