Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
Science deserves a story.
The way we do research and science is changing. Deliverables can no longer just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm curating The Distressed Scientists' Department, a science haus for researcher-creatives — scientists who believe research should be visible and communicative through a variety of mediums, not just a pipeline of papers. So far, I've done this through writing, exhibitions, and artifacts, with more on the way.
Discovery flourishes when science permeates art and culture. I'm inspired by the canon of the World's Fairs, Eames x IBM, and Bauhaus Labs. I take cues from the cultural imagination of Frieze, MIT Press's Leonardo, Scientific American, and Hans Obrist’s interview archives. I admire the rigour of Vannevar Bush, Richard Hamming, Sydney Brenner, and JCR Licklider. I find company in the textured curiosity of Ada Lovelace (poetry), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (literature), and Richard Feynman (bongos).
This is a question of how science can and should be published, funded, expressed, seen, and shared.
In just a few months, TDSD has published a print book, hosted the first researcher-creative exhibition in San Francisco (with editions forming in NYC and London, among others), and gathered a serious community of researchers, artists, patrons, and readers.
This is the room where it happens. Reach out if you'd like to help shape what comes next.
Science deserves a story.
The way we do research and science is changing. Deliverables can no longer just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm curating The Distressed Scientists' Department, a science haus for researcher-creatives — scientists who believe research should be visible and communicative through a variety of mediums, not just a pipeline of papers. So far, I've done this through writing, exhibitions, and artifacts, with more on the way.
Discovery flourishes when science permeates art and culture. I'm inspired by the canon of the World's Fairs, Eames x IBM, and Bauhaus Labs. I take cues from the cultural imagination of Frieze, MIT Press's Leonardo, Scientific American, and Hans Obrist’s interview archives. I admire the rigour of Vannevar Bush, Richard Hamming, Sydney Brenner, and JCR Licklider. I find company in the textured curiosity of Ada Lovelace (poetry), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (literature), and Richard Feynman (bongos).
This is a question of how science can and should be published, funded, expressed, seen, and shared.
In just a few months, TDSD has published a print book, hosted the first researcher-creative exhibition in San Francisco (with editions forming in NYC and London, among others), and gathered a serious community of researchers, artists, patrons, and readers.
This is the room where it happens. Reach out if you'd like to help shape what comes next.
Science deserves a story.
The way we do research and science is changing. Deliverables can no longer just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm curating The Distressed Scientists' Department, a science haus for researcher-creatives — scientists who believe research should be visible and communicative through a variety of mediums, not just a pipeline of papers. So far, I've done this through writing, exhibitions, and artifacts, with more on the way.
Discovery flourishes when science permeates art and culture. I'm inspired by the canon of the World's Fairs, Eames x IBM, and Bauhaus Labs. I take cues from the cultural imagination of Frieze, MIT Press's Leonardo, Scientific American, and Hans Obrist’s interview archives. I admire the rigour of Vannevar Bush, Richard Hamming, Sydney Brenner, and JCR Licklider. I find company in the textured curiosity of Ada Lovelace (poetry), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (literature), and Richard Feynman (bongos).
This is a question of how science can and should be published, funded, expressed, seen, and shared.
In just a few months, TDSD has published a print book, hosted the first researcher-creative exhibition in San Francisco (with editions forming in NYC and London, among others), and gathered a serious community of researchers, artists, patrons, and readers.
This is the room where it happens. Reach out if you'd like to help shape what comes next.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, working on media projects, and strategy-ing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats.
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting strategy and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy [at] gmail [dot] com. I love to read on park benches and go on walks.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, interviewing, and marketing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats.
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting strategy and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy [at] gmail [dot] com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, interviewing, and marketing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats.
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant distributions, strategy, and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy [at] gmail [dot] com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
Acknowledgements - I owe much to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let my Life Untangle.*
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*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time. My kids will never hear the end of it.
Acknowledgements - I owe everything and more to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let My Life Untangle.*
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*Letting my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.My kids will never hear the end of it.
Acknowledgements - I owe much to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let My Life Untangle.*
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*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time. My kids will never hear the end of it.