Joshua E. Brown

Science writer & photographer @UVMVermont @uvmfnprogram @BrownUniversity No longer reading @Twitter. #cesspool

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My latest story on fruit flies, #brains, and the nature of #thinking:
https://t.co/ElDWx649JZ

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No Haudenosaunee, no Olympic lacrosse. Boycott @LAOlympics2028 if the @HAU_Nationals are not allowed to compete.
https://t.co/Erfd6ecuzn

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newspaper writing: the birthing center where metaphors go to die.

[Aastha JS @aasthajs]

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

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We Need Greenland. But Not in the Way Trump Thinks. https://t.co/gmqWmOx98N Great think piece in @undarkmag by @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman

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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. https://t.co/2hodOpwQMN

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Zoinks! Two of my photos published in the @nytimes today, part of an excellent interview with @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman.
https://t.co/Tr6CqWaWJW

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This! How I'm feeling this morning about the @KamalaHarris pick of @GovTimWalz:
https://t.co/XN6mj8OdXa

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Got complexity? I spoke with @LHDnets about the difference between complicated and #complex--and the launch of the new journal #npjComplexity. https://t.co/igyyZMgoSl

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The most important news story I've ever written.

[University of Vermont @uvmvermont]

BREAKING DISCOVERY: A UVM team of physicists found that the solar eclipse path and date were miscalculated. ☀️🌑
#SolarEclipse
https://t.co/ZkLP100HYm

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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?" https://t.co/01tA4spiCS

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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:
https://t.co/dD9KXlD7qU

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“People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.”

— Wendell Berry

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https://t.co/W1hZwxXfLq
Zoinks

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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.
https://t.co/YYCCYFfURJ

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Zoinks. Two of my photos, published in @WIRED:

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NEW: Sixty years later, researchers have analyzed the sediment of an abandoned arctic military base and made a major scientific discovery. https://t.co/hIY5QyYrn5

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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?

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1/5
Got #Greenland (photos)? Bad day for the #ClimateEmergency. Great day for me. On 7/21 my #landscapephotography was published in the @nytimes:
https://t.co/U3yq64MPy9

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4/5 and the @washingtonpost ran a big version in the print edition: