A digital
garden— growing slowly.

Thoughts, writing, art, and half finished ideas. Some things are seeds and others have bloomed, but it's all alive.

Est. 2026 · Tahreem Karim

A Computational Biologist With a Flair for the Creative

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🌱 Mother-son writing team

She would write, while I edit, post & manage. Substack? Feature on the garden? The potential goes all to writing a paper together. Probably a journal review.

March 2026

Sprout

🌿 The garden

I am in love with my garden. It is more or less exactly as I imagined it. It actually motivates me to become someone that can interest people in visiting my internet ecosystem. Ideas: edit the flower footer to get it just right - better positioning and more transparent. Would be cool to have them sway in the wind. Also want a watercolor image of Raja sleeping in the grass with animated Z's. Also, fix the seed-bloom system. Would also be nice if I could edit the cards without accessing the repo.

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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, she's the one who asks the right questions.

Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bloom

Why zoonotic disease maps lie — and what better ones look like

A deep dive into the epidemiological visualization problem, using the WAHIS dataset as a case study.

An idiomatic machine learning project for my portfolio 🌱

Comic book themed. Relevant source: Image segmentation, classification and recognition methods for comics: A decade systematic literature review

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Field note
On Digital Gardening — Reverb podcast
Feb 2026 listening

🌿 Activism

DO MORE for the world. If I don't, my conscious just isn't going to let it go, especially if I end up living the life I always dreamed of. It would be easier not to care but I guess I wasn't born with that capacity. I'm exhausted, but I'm still blessed.

Bloom

From pipette to Python

What I wish someone had told me when I made the transition. The mental models that actually transfer, and the ones that get in the way.

Portfolio

Visualizations, simulators, and presentations. Science, made visible.

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Seed

🌱 Coursera for fun

Johns Hopkins University Sustainable Cities Specialization

🌱 Learn HTML and CSS

Update (still mar) Johns Hopkins University HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers Specialization Probably will have to learn it myself. Unfortunately I am not sure it is relevant to my current curriculum or goals. March 2026

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Tilden Park · Mar 2026
First owl's clover of the season
wildflowers Berkeley Hills
Science communication as a design problem

Most scientific figures are made for other scientists. What changes when you design for someone who doesn't share your vocabulary?

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The Rising Tigers Initiative

A nonprofit I founded supporting South Asian and refugee immigrants — college essays, culture, networking.

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Ni et al. 2023
CRISPR screen hits across 18,053 genes — polyadenylation factors
pre-mRNA genomics
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To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Robert MacArthur
Free resources

Study guides, templates, and tools I've made or found useful. For anyone who needs them.

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