“Eukaryote Skips Town - Why I’m leaving DC” by eukaryote

I’ve spent the past 7 years living in the DC area. I moved out there from the Pacific Northwest to go to grad school – I got my masters in Biodefense from George Mason University, and then I stuck around, trying to move into the political/governance sphere. That sort of happened. But I will now be sort of doing that from rural California rather than DC, and I’ll be looking for something else – maybe something more unusual – do to next.

A friend asked if this means I’m leaving biosecurity behind. No, I’m not, but only to the degree that I was ever actually in biosecurity in the first place. For the past few years I’ve been doing a variety of contracting and research and writing jobs, many of which were biosecurity related, many of which were not. Many of these projects, to be clear, were incredibly cool [...]

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First published:
March 26th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DdfXF72JfeumLHMhm/eukaryote-skips-town-why-i-m-leaving-dc

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