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Science writer & photographer @UVMVermont @uvmfnprogram @BrownUniversity No longer reading @Twitter. #cesspool
Burlington, VT
Joined February 2015
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No Haudenosaunee, no Olympic lacrosse. Boycott @LAOlympics2028 if the @HAU_Nationals are not allowed to compete.
nytimes.com/2025/05/13/magaz…
Joshua E. Brown retweeted
New podcast w/ @drmichaellevin & Pamela Lyon!
Do our cells have cognition and memory which changes how we view medicine?
We rethink cognition & discuss:
- Cognition and creativity is not merely associated with the brain and nervous system
- Implications of this view of cognition for regenerative medicine and longevity
- Is stress response the source of our creativity?
Links below. Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Our view of cognition is incorrect
7:50 What does biology have to say about cognition?
11:12 Cognition in xenobots
13:20 Cognition and cooperation in microbes
29:03 Bioelectricity and cognition
32:58 Is stress response the source of our creativity?
42:27 Mike’s paper: Stress-sharing as a cognitive glue
46:31 Implications of cognition not only being associated with brain
55:55 Cognition in AI
1:01:33 View of cognition in the East
We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks. undark.org/2025/01/23/opinio… Great think piece in @undarkmag by @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman
Joshua E. Brown retweeted
In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past. nyti.ms/3At0gT0
Zoinks! Two of my photos published in the @nytimes today, part of an excellent interview with @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman.
nytimes.com/2024/08/21/scien…
This! How I'm feeling this morning about the @KamalaHarris pick of @GovTimWalz:
youtube.com/watch?v=cKkrXQo1…
Got complexity? I spoke with @LHDnets about the difference between complicated and #complex--and the launch of the new journal #npjComplexity. uvm.edu/news/story/honeybees…
The most important news story I've ever written.
BREAKING DISCOVERY: A UVM team of physicists found that the solar eclipse path and date were miscalculated. ☀️🌑
#SolarEclipse
uvm.edu/news/story/eclipse-p…
Are we all doomed? "Doom is a state of mind," @adamsobel writes in @Nature. Made me think of Zadie Smith's 2014 @nybooks essay: "I found my mind finally beginning to turn from the elegiac what have we done to the practical what can we do?" nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
I interviewed @zeynep about the morality of #AI, social media, #climate change, capitalism & nuclear weapons. What's the glue? She says: valuing the short-term interest of powerful people, rather than the long-term interest of people in general. Read more:
uvm.edu/news/story/talking-z…
“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.”
— Wendell Berry
arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566
Zoinks
Got (enough) trees? @uvmvermont research in the @guardian today shows threat to #climate change efforts via #tree planting: not enough seedlings. Not even close to enough.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Zoinks. Two of my photos, published in @WIRED:
NEW: Sixty years later, researchers have analyzed the sediment of an abandoned arctic military base and made a major scientific discovery. wired.trib.al/NoAsh3D
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Got #Greenland (photos)? Bad day for the #ClimateEmergency. Great day for me. On 7/21 my #landscapephotography was published in the @nytimes:
nytimes.com/2023/07/21/scien…
4/5 and the @washingtonpost ran a big version in the print edition:
5/5 plus a placement in @USATODAY. How many ways can I spell "cognitive dissonance" considering how delighted and worried I am while looking at the same photo?
