Sana Whitfield

I started a science blog in 2005, back when that was a slightly embarrassing thing to admit at parties, mostly to complain about how badly sleep studies got summarized in the papers. It turned into a job. I have been writing about culture and the science of everyday life ever since, through the arrival of social media, the smartphone, the wellness boom, and roughly four hundred viral productivity hacks.

My method has not changed much. I start with something small and specific, a stranger comparing sleep scores at a party or a habit everyone seems to pick up in the same week, and then I go looking for the study underneath it. Usually there is one. Usually it is smaller than you would guess.

Bristol-born, biology degree from the University of Bristol, science journalism at Columbia. Brooklyn for a long time now.