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Computational biologist, Active Inference researcher, cognitive security researcher, educator, and artist · California, USA, Earth
Multidisciplinary researcher and open-source builder working across social insect biology, Active Inference, cognitive security, computational frameworks, education, and art.
211curated works
147catalogued software rows
202 + 43public GitHub repositories by account
815Google Scholar citations (as of 2026-08-26)
Counts are generated from canonical exports. GitHub inventory generated 2026-08-26T18:56:16Z; Scholar metrics remain explicitly dated.
2019-2023
Co-mentors: Prof. Brian Johnson (UC Davis) and Prof. Tim Linksvayer (Arizona State University).
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology, award DBI-2010290; official award dates 2020-10-01 to 2023-09-30.
Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and behavior in eusocial insects, mainly ants and bees.
Science research, mentoring, participation, service, and organizing events and communities online.
2014-2019
Advisor: Professor Deborah M. Gordon, Biology.
Research, teaching, service, and coursework from Summer 2014 to Summer 2019.
Thesis topics: ant ecology, collective behavior, brain gene expression, and neurometabolism.
Stanford Graduate Fellow (Urbanek Family Fellowship), 2014-2017.
Co-organizer of the Stanford Complexity Group, 2016-2019.
Stanford Neuroscience NeuroChoice Grant for neurometabolism in ants, 2019, $25,000.
Stanford Systems Biology Seed Grant for gene expression and behavior in ants, 2018, $25,000.
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award, American Museum of Natural History, 2016, $2,500.
Lewis and Clark Fund grant, American Philosophical Society, 2016, $4,000.
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2015 and 2016.
2010-2014
BSc in Genetics, University of California, Davis.
Genetics Department Citation, Highest Honors, 2014; 3.74 GPA overall.
Campus Community Service Silver Award, 2014.
Stanley and Jacqueline Schilling Award for Service, 2014.
Completed the Population Biology Graduate Group one-year base PhD curriculum, 2013.
Co-founder of The Aggie Transcript, an undergraduate biology journal, 2014.
Victoria Finnerty Award for Research in Drosophila, 2013.
Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, UC Davis Chapter, 2014.
Co-organizer of the Chess Club at UC Davis, 2012-2014.
Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology, 2011-2014.
Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship for Drosophila research, 2011, $2,500.
2006-2010
Crystal Springs Uplands School.
2026-ongoing
Typographical editing for The Triplicate newspaper of Del Norte County and Crescent City.
Community Organization
2021-ongoing
Co-founded the Active Inference Institute; current President and Treasurer.
Community Organization
2019-2024
Organized activities and community around learning and applying complexity science.
Community Organization
2019-ongoing
Research facilitation and participation on initiatives related to cognitive security.
Community Organization
2014-2019
Organized the Stanford Complexity Group while it was active.
Community Organization
2025-2026
Systems modeling and related work to be public later.
Startup
2023-2024
Stealth Active Inference startup.
Startup
2019-2023
Education, online event planning, and consulting for remote teams.
Startup
2017-2019
Predictive analytics and dashboard visualizations with Prof. Glenn Magerman at KU Leuven.
Startup
2017-2019
Three-person cryptocurrency research group.
Startup
2019-2023
Postdoctoral position during NSF fellowship with Brian Johnson at UC Davis and Tim Linksvayer at Arizona State University.
Research
2014-2019
Graduate research, field work, wet lab, bioinformatics, and mentoring of high schoolers, undergraduates, graduate students, and non-academics.
Research
2010-2014
Undergraduate research assistant with Prof. Artyom Kopp in Ecology and Evolution at UC Davis, studying non-coding DNA elements in the evolution of the Drosophila foreleg sex comb.
Research
2014-2019
Operated a pedicab/rickshaw at events including music festivals in California and downtown areas in Davis and San Jose.
Pedicab
2015-2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses: General Biology: Cell and Molecular Biology (2015) and Ethics of Evolutionary Biology (2016).
Teaching
2014
Student teacher and developmental biology course co-developer with Prof. Susan Keen at UC Davis.
Teaching
2020
Award DBI-2010290; official award dates 2020-10-01 to 2023-09-30.
2014
Stanford University, 2014-2017.
2019
Neurometabolism in ants, $25,000.
2018
Gene expression and behavior in ants, $25,000.
2016
American Museum of Natural History, $2,500.
2016
American Philosophical Society, $4,000.
2015
Honorable Mention in 2015 and 2016.
2014
Highest Honors.
2014
Campus Community Service Silver Award and Stanley and Jacqueline Schilling Award for Service.
2013
UC Davis.
2014
Elected member, UC Davis Chapter.
2011
Drosophila research, $2,500.
Production-grade scaffold for reproducible computational research — 10-stage DAG pipelines, ≥90% test coverage, cryptographic provenance, multi-project workspace, and agent-ready documentation · Zenodo software v3.3.0 · Zenodo
Python
Minecraft variant built on tetrahedral geometry — voxels replaced by Quadray-coordinate tetrahedra, exploring Buckminster Fuller's synergetics in an interactive 3D world
JavaScript
Meta-framework integrating computational entomology, Active Inference, and information theory for modeling ant colony cognition and beyond
Python
AI-native modular coding workspace — 100+ modules, 500+ MCP tools, 21K+ zero-mock tests, multi-agent orchestration (Claude/Gemini/GPT), PAI integration · Zenodo
Python
Networked Life Encoding — interactive D3 knowledge graph of human intellectual history; 24 relationship types, Perplexity AI enrichment; seeded around R. Buckminster Fuller's network
TypeScript
Hybrid neuro-symbolic AI combining fractal symbolic representations with probabilistic neural models for enhanced reasoning; includes Unipixel fractal building blocks and PEFF ethical reasoning
Python
Comprehensive toolkit analyzing 250+ Palantir open-source repositories (6.2M+ lines of code) — automated discovery, multi-language analysis, dependency mapping, statistical profiling, and professional visualizations
Python
Analysis and tooling around FORMIS, the world's largest ant-literature database; bibliometric mining and structured index generation
Rich Text Format
Active Inference for ants — multi-language implementations (Python) for modeling ant-colony cognition as Bayesian agents minimizing free energy
Python
End-to-end pipeline for ingesting, parsing, and querying the Crescent City, CA municipal code; TypeScript-based legal-text processing
TypeScript
Python library for 3D and 4D Quadray/IVM (Isotropic Vector Matrix) geometry — coordinate conversion, volume calculations, and polyhedral operations
Python
Dynamic Markov Blanket Detection (DMBD) — PyTorch-accelerated framework for identifying causal relationships in complex systems; static and temporal modes with cognitive-structure labeling
Python
Mathematical exposition of Quadray coordinate systems (4-vector tetrahedral coordinates); LaTeX documentation and computation library
TeX
Literature collection and analysis tools for structured ingestion, annotation, and exploration of scientific publications
Python
Active Inference for, with, and by Generative AI — Python implementations of free-energy-minimizing agents integrated with modern AI tooling
Python
Active Inference & Agentic Mesh — modular Python infrastructure for building agentic systems using free-energy-minimizing Active Inference principles
Python
Curriculum development framework for interdisciplinary education in Active Inference, biology, and computational science
HTML
Lean/minimal niche-construction modeling — formal computational representations of ecological niche dynamics
Python
Automated Obsidian vault construction from unstructured text — NLP pipelines to generate bidirectionally-linked knowledge graphs
Python
QR code-based live protocol system for real-time data exchange and interactive session management
Python
Agentic Intelligence curriculum — modular educational scaffold for teaching bounded AI-agent support and synthetic analytic tradecraft · · Citation DOI
HTML
AutoScientists deterministic multi-agent scientific-discovery coordination harness · · Zenodo
Python
UltraLink document format tooling — linking, rendering, and transformation utilities for rich hyperlinked documents
HTML
High-performance Rust tool for embedding BLAKE3+Ed25519 cryptographic signatures and visible watermarks into live video/audio via LSB steganography; four Rust crates, 132 tests, GStreamer integration
Rust
The Triplicate data-driven large-format newspaper layout engine · · Zenodo
Python
Algebraic NTQR evaluation study recovering LLM-persona accuracies from unlabeled votes · · Zenodo
Python
Verification-first webcam eye-movement analysis toolkit for gaze, saccades, pupillometry, and diagnostic-quality exports · · Citation DOI
Python
Integration workspace aggregating and exercising the coasys (AD4M) agent-centric social-layer repositories
Python
Multiharness cognitive-security and analytic-tradecraft skill library — 100 defensive SAT/cogsec skills runnable under Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes · · Zenodo
Python
Deterministic token-injection exemplar for conditional IMRAD manuscripts — reproducible madlib-style variable substitution for scientific writing · · Citation DOI
Python
PyTorch-based Active Inference implementations — GPU-accelerated variational inference and free energy minimization
Python
Computational simulation of ant pheromone trail dynamics and stigmergic communication
Python
The Ant Stack — layered computational model of collective ant-colony intelligence
Python
Computational research on insect infrared sensing and olfaction modeling · · Zenodo · Zenodo
Python
Ento-Linguistics corpus pipeline — term extraction, terminology networks, semantic entropy, CACE scoring
Python
Compositional linguistic case for cognitive modeling — categorical case systems, DisCoCat/DisCoCirc diagrams, tests and figures for the Active Inference Journal manuscript
TeX
Active Inference-driven autonomous drone navigation in Microsoft AirSim simulation environment
Julia
BIOL-1: General Biology course materials — College of the Redwoods; lectures, labs, and interactive HTML content
HTML
BIOL-8: Human Biology course materials — College of the Redwoods; lectures, labs, and interactive HTML content
HTML
Open generative biology textbook — Markdown source, tested Python modules, programmatic figures; archived at Zenodo artifact · Citation DOI
Python
Cascadia bioregion modeling and data analysis tools
Python
Course materials framework for structured interdisciplinary learning modules
Python
Three-level hierarchical enactive inference model of mental action — focused-attention meditation with expert/novice profiles; reproducible simulations and figures
Python
Comprehensive Framework for Evolutionary Ontogenetic Analysis — modeling developmental trajectories and evolutionary dynamics
Python
Lightweight Python tooling for rapid data flicking and processing pipelines
Python
Obsidian vault dedicated to R. Buckminster Fuller's ideas — synergetics, geodesics, and design science
Unspecified
Gödel numbering meets the IVM (Isotropic Vector Matrix) — formal encoding of geometric objects as prime products
Python
Active Goference — production-ready Go framework for Active Inference autonomous agents; genuine variational inference, free energy minimization, POMDP policy planning via gonum
Go
Analysis of HHS (Department of Health and Human Services) open data — policy analytics and public-health data pipelines
Python
The Music Never Stopped citation-bound Grateful Dead data compendium · · Zenodo · Zenodo
Python
Infrastructure calculator for estimating resource requirements and costs in multi-agent and AI systems
JavaScript
Framework for Probabilistic Document Analysis — Markov Decision Process over Markdown artifacts for structured document reasoning
Python
MKV-like key-value format and methods for Markdown — structured metadata embedding in plain-text documents
Python
Properties, Processes, and Perspectives Inter-Framework (P3IF) — multiplexing interdisciplinary requirements frameworks to manage information risk and foster cognitive security
Python
Service-layer infrastructure and API tooling for Python-based research applications
Python
Classic snake game implemented in Python — used for testing multi-agent and reinforcement learning algorithms
Python
Golden-ratio OBS Studio broadcast console and FractiSynth transducer — Python reference engine, native `libobs` plugin, and `obspython` bridge driven by fail-closed solar telemetry
Python
Modular fillable scaffold for book-length technical works · · Zenodo
HTML
William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Architecture of Intelligence — AI-augmented scholarly response to Game Theory #24 with Blake, Jiang, and Active Inference framing
Python
Symbolic Synergetics — computer algebra and formal symbolic systems for Buckminster Fuller's synergetics mathematics
Python
Transformer architecture explorations — attention mechanisms and architectural variants for Active Inference research
Python
Cognitive Ecosystem Modeling Framework — Active Inference agents with Obsidian-compatible knowledge management, bidirectional graph validation, belief updating, and network visualization
Python
A source-anchored, reproducible field map of entomological law · Zenodo
TeX
Typed, deterministic multimodal illusion generator — visual, auditory, temporal, and audio-visual stimuli with scholarly evidence and publication outputs · Zenodo
Python
ENTO (ENcrypted, Typed, Omnitrack): a flat-ZIP authenticated container format for multimodal research data, with per-track AES-256-GCM, graded observability, and hash-chained proofs. Reference implementation. · Zenodo
Python
Source-faithful, fully reproducible software operationalizing the formalisms of There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation (Sandved-Smith, Fields, Doctor, Laukkonen & Hohwy, 2026). · Zenodo
Python
Sortition Upstream of NTQR: how panel formation and size shape ground-truth-free evaluation (deterministic synthetic instrument + single-model Gemma postdoctoral-review companion) · Zenodo
Python
AlphaCOGANT: Recursive Corporate Self-Improvement as Active Inference — GNN-via-COGANT model of the AlphaFund Economic World Model · Zenodo
Python
DemoCreate: declarative, deterministic audio-visual demo generation for software packages and research papers. · Zenodo
Python
William Blake · Zenodo
Python
The Physics Engine for AI Coding Agents.
Unspecified
Active Inference Pocket Lab — portable simulation and learning environment for Active Inference experiments
JavaScript
Correlating Github activity with Solar activity
Python
Active inference multi-track exemplar releases · Zenodo
Python
Reproducible, validated short/medium/long PDF+PPTX pitch-deck generation — a public exemplar extracted from docxology/template · Zenodo
Python
Autopoietic Project Generation: a combinatoric grammar for deterministic runnable project synthesis (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21227869) · Zenodo
TeX
Template autoresearch project exemplar releases · Zenodo
Python
Template code project exemplar releases · Zenodo
Python
Data Descriptor Template: schema, file inventory, provenance, and release-readiness contract for dataset papers. Exemplar from the docxology/template research monorepo.
HTML
Exploratory Data Analysis: A Reproducible Notebook Template — public exemplar from docxology/template · Zenodo
TeX
Illegal States, Mostly Unrepresentable: strongly typed multiagent colony exemplar (session-typed protocols, affine resource handles, Lean/TLA+ side-specs). From the docxology/template monorepo.
Python
Public standalone template exemplar: template_gold_refinement
Python
Public standalone template exemplar: template_literature_meta_analysis · Zenodo
Python
A Domain Language for Specifying Controlled Methods — public exemplar from docxology/template · Zenodo
TeX
Pools, Rules, and Tools: a template-integrated resource architecture exemplar (fonds/rules/tools resource pools). From the docxology/template research monorepo.
TeX
Template prose project exemplar releases · Zenodo
TeX
Redacted Report Template: disclosure control and release-audit exemplar (classification ceiling, redaction ledger, mosaic-risk checks). From the docxology/template monorepo.
Python
Registered Report Template: preregistration, deviations, and claim boundaries for confirmatory research. From the docxology/template research monorepo.
HTML
Private project mirror for archive/template_search_project in docxology/projects.
TeX
SIA self-improvement harness — deterministic Meta→Target→Feedback exemplar (template_sia) · Zenodo
Python
Standalone full-page illustrated storybook template from docxology/template · Zenodo
TeX
Template meta-research exemplar: self-documenting reproducible research repo · Zenodo
TeX
template_bioinformatics_project — Active Inference / research exemplar repository
Python
Top-level wrapper manuscript and reproducible 33-package special-agent operations compendium, with generated chapters, unified bibliography, deterministic regeneration, and tested release artifacts · · Zenodo
Markdown/Python
A thin reader that declares the line set and checks that no two lines share a spelling — holding-instruments research practice · · Zenodo
Python
A positive operating discipline for concise, inspectable, revisable work · · Zenodo
Python
A typed ledger for the edge of a claim: absence, restraint, and the unknowable · · Zenodo
Python
An aspirational thread and long-horizon direction for personal work · · Zenodo
Python
A personal security boundary and explicit No document for dual-use development · · Zenodo
Python
Co-registration without aggregation — the Witness Register holding instrument · · Zenodo
Python
DigiPPPiP — Digital Partner Pen Play in Parallel: a composable, fully-tested computational companion for remote, semisynchronous, and asynchronous dyadic drawing · · Zenodo
TeX
Evidence-typed scaffold for whole-colony honeybee simulation · · Zenodo
Python
Advanced multi-phase literature-review pipeline exemplar with iterative search refinement, multi-phrase querying, and deterministic synthesis
Python
Comprehensive local intelligence platform for Crescent City, CA — municipal code, real-time alerts, RAG chat, and analytics
TypeScript
THALIA: Typed Harness with Analytical Lexical-Integrated Architecture — a typed agentic harness for reproducible long-context memory experiments · · Zenodo
Python
Structured, read-only Math4Wisdom Superhuman Docs archive
TypeScript
docxplus — the Intelligent Document Container: format, tools, and formal specification · · Zenodo
Python
Multi-frequency time-series analysis toolkit built on sktime — validates irregular series, tests stationarity and Granger causality, and evaluates forecasting models
Python
Content hub for the Active Inference Journal — 500+ video transcripts, stream archives, and multimedia publishing infrastructure for the Institute's primary educational output
HTML
Active Inference agents in cadCAD block-based simulation — formal agent-based modeling using complex-systems simulation framework
Jupyter
Active Inference models for/of ants across 32+ programming languages — multi-language reference implementation of stigmergic Active Inference
Python
Unofficial repo for materials and code related to "Fundamentals of Active Inference" (Namjoshi 2026).
Python
GNN — formal notation standard for specifying Active Inference generative models; JSON/YAML schema, validators, and transpilers to Python, Julia, and MATLAB · Zenodo software
Python
Cognitive modeling and simulation tools — multi-agent Active Inference environments, benchmarks, and visualization
Python
Formal OWL/RDF ontology for Active Inference — defines classes, properties, and axioms for free energy principle concepts
Unspecified
Case-Enabled Reasoning Engine with Bayesian Representations for Unified Modeling — grammatical case framework for compositional cognitive models · Zenodo
Python
Transcription, processing, and publishing pipelines for the Active Inference Journal — Whisper-based download, transcription, RAG/knowledge-graph, and export utilities · Zenodo release
HTML
Applied Active Inference Symposium materials — talks, workshops, proceedings, and collaborative session artifacts from annual Applied AIF symposia
Python
Formal categorical foundations for Active Inference — string diagrams, functorial semantics, and compositional models using category theory
Unspecified
Geospatial Active Inference — applying free energy minimization to geographic systems, spatial planning, and bioregional intelligence
HTML
Active Entity Ontology for Science — OWL ontology for representing active entities, their actions, and causal relationships in scientific models
Unspecified
Structured Active Inference learning courses — cohort-based curriculum materials, exercises, and collaborative learning artifacts
HTML
AI-driven research synthesis and navigation — semantic search, citation graph analysis, and cross-domain connection discovery across the Active Inference literature
HTML
Active Inference Textbook Study Group — code, exercises, and reading notes accompanying Parr, Pezzulo & Friston (2022)
Julia
Bioregional Active Inference for organizational stewardship — applying free energy minimization to ecological and community governance systems
Python
Institute onboarding hub — getting-started guides, contributor pathways, project index, and orientation materials for new participants
Python
A computational meta-analysis of the Active Inference literature. An automated LLM pipeline extracts assertions from 849 papers across theory, tools, and domains, structuring them as nanopublications. By mapping these into a citation-weighted knowledge graph, this project provides a reproducible, living review of hypothesis-level consensus.
TeX
Knowledge engineering tools and workflows — ontology alignment, concept mapping, and structured knowledge-base construction for Active Inference
Jupyter
Lean 4 / Mathlib4 formalization of FEP-related mathematics — 155-topic sorry-free catalog, Hermes/OpenGauss LLM drafting, zero-mock verification, manuscript pipeline · · Zenodo artifact v1.1.0 · Citation DOI
Python
Active Inference with RxInfer.jl — Julia-based reactive message passing for efficient Bayesian inference in Active Inference models
Unspecified
PyMCP — Model Context Protocol bridge for PyMDP, enabling Active Inference agents to interoperate with MCP-compatible AI tooling
Python
Policy Entanglement in Active Inference v1.0.0 · Zenodo
Python
GEN-24 working project — collaborative generative systems research from the 2024 active inference cohort
Jupyter
NoOrg is a Real Org — experimental organizational infrastructure and governance frameworks for decentralized scientific institutions
HTML
Learning and exploring probabilistic inference — beginner-accessible Jupyter notebooks for Active Inference from first principles
Jupyter
Question-Oriented Pattern Languages for Knowledge Management — structured templates for navigating complex scientific knowledge spaces
Python
Deterministic Codebase-to-GNN Translation — evidence compiler converting repositories into Generalized Notation Notation Active Inference artifacts via a 22-rule fixpoint engine; dual Python/Rust · · Zenodo artifact v0.6.0 · Citation DOI
Python
On-Policy Distillation and Active Inference — finite variational-model correspondence with deterministic witnesses, reproducibility artifacts, and paired publication release · · Zenodo artifact v1.0.2 · Citation DOI
Python
Institute bot infrastructure — automation, notification, and community management bots for the Active Inference Institute's platforms
Unspecified
Interactive visualization garden — generative art and data-visualization experiments exploring Active Inference dynamics
Python
GEN-25 working project — generative systems and collaborative research from the 2025 active inference cohort
Unspecified
International Society for the Systems Sciences collaboration — joint research and educational materials bridging Active Inference and systems science
Python
Active Inference for FractalRabbit · Zenodo
Python
Robust belief sharing in federated Active Inference — recovery-tested generalized-variational consensus · · Citation DOI
Python
Validated prerequisite graph, computational claim registry, and SkillTree delivery contract for Active Inference · · Zenodo
Python
Conditional statistical power under controlled generative settings for Active Inference · · Zenodo
Python
Public repository with no description, language, or committed contents at the 2026-08-26 review
Unspecified
2025
Queens College, CUNY, Biology
Talk
2025
Enduring Patterns, Emerging Futures: Celebrating Dr. Len Troncale
Talk
2024
ISSS 2024
Workshop
2024
Funding the Commons
Panel
2024
European Identity and Cloud Conference 2024
Panel
2022
Entomology Society of America, Pacific Branch
Talk
2021
Cognitio 2021
Talk
Avel Guenin-Carlut, Daniel Friedman, and Virginia Bleu Knight.
2021
ACM-CI 2021
Talk
Avel Guenin-Carlut and Daniel Friedman.
2020
IIBM, Chile
Talk
Invited online seminar.
2019
Essig Brunch Seminar Series
Talk
2018
Stanford University Mass Spectrometry Research Symposium
Talk
2018
Essig Entomology Brunch
Talk
2017
Entomology 2017
Poster
2017
ASMS 2017
Poster
KM Krasinska, DA Friedman, DM Gordon, AS Chien.
2015
Biology and Genetics of Social Insects, CSHL 2015
Poster
DA Friedman, A Pilko, DM Gordon.
2014
Drosophila Research Conference 2014
Poster
DA Friedman, T Orenic, C McCullough, E Eksi, OY Barmina, A Kopp.
2012
UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference
Talk
DA Friedman.
2026
Video conversation on another channel
2025
Video conversation on another channel
2024
Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott
Video conversation on another channel
2024
Video conversation on another channel
Bagaev, de Vries, Friedman, Pashea.
2024
Math4Wisdom
Video conversation on another channel
2023
No Way Out podcast
Video conversation on another channel
2023
Denise Holt
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Jake Gallen
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Making Sense of Complexity
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Inner Sense
Video conversation on another channel
2022
ZeroG
Video conversation on another channel
2022
World Crypto Network
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Nicholas Pacheco
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Kernel
Video conversation on another channel
2022
Active Inference Lab
Video conversation on another channel
2021
World Crypto Network
Video conversation on another channel
2020
Video conversation on another channel
2021
Blurb
2021
Blurb
2020
Blurb
2016
Blurb
2013
Blurb
2017
Lecture
2016
Lecture
2021
Quote
2025
Profile or Interview
2022
Curio DAO
Profile or Interview
2021
Profile or Interview
2019
Radio
2022-2024
Board of Directors
Vice-President for Communication and Systems Education on the International Society for the Systems Sciences Board.
2021-2023
Academia
Co-editor, Field and Laboratory Methods for Modern Entomology.
2021
Membership
Member (MCybS), Cybernetics Society.
2020-ongoing
Membership
Information Professional Association.
2020-ongoing
Community
Active Inference Institute co-founder.
2020-2023
Community
Davis Complexity Group.
2019-2024
Community
Complexity Adventures co-founder.
2018-2021
Membership
ALIUS Research Group contributor, editor, and co-organizer.
2018-2019
Community
Wonderfest Science Envoy; science outreach and community training.
2017-2021
Membership
Entomological Society of America.
2017-2019
Academia
NeuroChoice group, Stanford Neurosciences Institute.
2017-2018
Membership
Graduate student member of Arts Committee for Stanford Biology department.
2016-2019
Community
Stanford Complexity Group.
2016
Community
Science Teaching Through Art (STAR) outreach program; poster presentations and conversations about ants at local middle and high schools.
2015
Workshop
Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, one-month residential program.
2014-2018
Field work
Five summers of ant fieldwork during PhD under Prof. Deborah Gordon at Southwestern Research Station, Arizona.
2014
Field work
Summer field ecology class with Stanford Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo at Las Tuxtlas tropical research station, Mexico.
2014
Workshop
Summer workshop on Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics at NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2014
Field work
Drosophila work with Dr. Michael Lang in Arizona.
2014-ongoing
Academia
Invited peer reviewer for 1-10 articles per year across different journals.
2014-2023
Membership
International Union for the Study of Social Insects.
2014-2017
Community
Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics outreach programs, including teaching genetics in local middle schools and hosting high school students at Stanford.
2014-2017
Community
Stanford Bio Core Explorations hands-on lecture/workshop for undergraduates: Art and Biology.
2013
Community
Science mentoring at Woodland High School.
2012
Community
Drums and percussion for UC Davis production of RENT.
2012-2013
Community
Volunteer in emergency room at hospital in Sacramento, four hours per week for six months.
2011-2014
Community
Chess Club at UC Davis President (2012-2014), organizing free outdoor chess at the farmer's market twice weekly for two years.
All
Posting drawings to an online portfolio since 2009.
2021
A full Curio Cards set sold at Christie's New York on September 30, 2021 for 393 ETH ($1,202,108).
2021
Curio Cards collection stored in the Arctic World Archive with art and provenance data intended for long-duration preservation.
2021
Public auction and market history for Curio Cards includes major 2021 sales; verify venue-specific claims before reusing exact auction-house wording.
2019
Art used in the eBook Rebelling with Care: Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare.
2019
Art used in Slate.fr blog.
2019
Art used in degrowth blog.
2018
Art used in Medium post by Lorena Cabeza, August 23, 2018.
2018
Cover image of Probe magazine.
2017
Early Ethereum art NFT collection that debuted May 9, 2017; Daniel Friedman created Curio Cards 24, 25, and 26.
2017
Art used in Bas Haring blog.
2017
Art used in Vice Motherboard blog.
2016
Featured in Genetics Society of America art blog.
2016
Art featured by Stanford Art of Neuroscience competition.