Lab Girl

Lab Girl blends scientific inquiry with memoir, grounding knowledge in lived experience. Hope Jahren writes about plants, persistence, friendship, and the quiet labor of research, treating science as an embodied, emotional practice.

For American Cyborg, November re-centered craft. After months of abstraction—ethics, systems, perception—Lab Girlreturned attention to hands, time, and care. Jahren’s work insists that knowledge is grown slowly, through patience and relationship.

This month reaffirmed a core principle of the project: intelligence is not just something we build or study—it is something we tend.