Joshua E. Brown

My latest story on fruit flies, #brains, and the nature of #thinking: uvm.edu/magazine/news/…

No Haudenosaunee, no Olympic lacrosse. Boycott @LAOlympics2028 if the @HAU_Nationals are not allowed to compete. nytimes.com/2025/05/13/mag…

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

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/opi… Great think piece in @undarkmag by @uvmvermont scientist Paul Bierman

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/sci…

This! How I'm feeling this morning about the @KamalaHarris pick of @GovTimWalz: youtube.com/watch?v=cKkrXQ…

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/hon…

The most important news story I've ever written.

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/d4158…

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/tal…

“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/20…

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

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?

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

1/5 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/sci…