Starting a research notebook

This is where I’ll write about the research I’m reading — mostly molecular and cell biology for now, with detours into whatever a paper drags me toward. The goal is simple: read closely, write down what I actually understood, and keep a record I can come back to.

How I’ll structure a post

Most posts will follow a loose shape:

1. The question the paper is trying to answer.
2. What they did — the method, in plain terms.
3. What surprised me, or what I had to look up to follow it.
4. Open threads I’d want to chase next.

A note to myself: a summary I can’t explain to a first-year isn’t a summary I understand yet.

Some posts will reference a specific paper — when they do, the title shows up in the post metadata above. Others will just be working notes.

More soon.