Me 
You can call me ‘Raven’. I am a Ph.D. student major in life sciences. I enjoy digital painting, birdwatching, and listening to music.
3 Fun Facts About Me
I like rainy days.
Uchiha Itachi from Naruto has crows as his messengers and incarnation - that’s the major reason I chose ‘Raven’ as my online nickname at 16 yo. From then on I keep encountering more loveable corvids in literature and reality…
During primary and school my online nickname was ‘Nyan-Nyan Elisa’, which was somehow related to Axis Powers Hetalia for some reason I can’t quite remember.
Why Blogging
This blog started as a class project to build a professional profile. Over time, I decided to make it more personal. Blogging offers a peaceful online experience without big company manipulation - no ads, no infinite scrolling, no censorship. So, what you’ll see here would be a mix of life science-related and more fun/personal posts. You can filter them by tags.
个人生活/兴趣内容主要用中文写作。
Why ‘Raven’s Nest’
Corvids like shiny trinkets. I think blogging is like collecting and displaying trinkets online - maybe there are some inherent resemblance? When I lived in Baltimore, I used to see flocks of crows gathering on trees, especially during colder times at dusk and dawn. Sometimes what you think that are leaves would actually be a flock of birds. I tried to re-create that effect in the homepage XD