Last week, I started the Coursera course Writing in the Sciences, and blogging about the course. The first week covered “decluttering” our writing:

Pay attention to vague words

To improve my scientific writing skills, I’ve enrolled in a Coursera course taught by Dr. Kristin Sainani.

I’ll be sharing my notes, thoughts and writing exercises in a series of blog posts.

My name is Michael Sieler and welcome to my blog! I’ll be sharing more posts in the near future. Some topics I’ll cover are:

My research - The gut microbiome - Using Zebrafish as a model organism