[Problem]
Quorum sensing research is scattered across decades of papers, and the interesting part, that bacteria coordinate behavior through chemical signaling, never reaches anyone outside the field. Popular writing flattens it into metaphor, and the primary literature is closed to most readers.
[Approach]
- 01Built a reading surface organized around six themes rather than a paper list, so a reader can follow an idea instead of a bibliography.
- 02Modeled the evidence explicitly: 20 source papers, 12 stated claims, and 10 named gaps, each claim tied back to what supports it and what it does not.
- 03Kept every gap visible rather than smoothing it over, so the site reads as an honest map of what is known and what is still open.
- 04Wrote in plain language with the citation always one tap away, so a curious reader and a researcher can both use the same page.
[Outcome]
A public, citable science site at smalltalkscience.org that turns bacterial communication research into something readable without softening the evidence.
