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Interdisciplinary researcher with over two decades of experience in public health and community organizing ☆ entangledecologies.net ☆
Working on watershed restoration, agroforestry and rural development.
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Working on watershed restoration, agroforestry and rural development.
☀ Join the conversation: backloop.substack.com
I know a lot of people think that the American president imposing 100% tariffs on Canada is a disaster — especially industry capitalists — but its not.
It’s an opportunity to retool Canada’s economy to be more internally robust and regional.
Short term pain, long term increase in resilience.
It’s an opportunity to retool Canada’s economy to be more internally robust and regional.
Short term pain, long term increase in resilience.
January 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
I know a lot of people think that the American president imposing 100% tariffs on Canada is a disaster — especially industry capitalists — but its not.
It’s an opportunity to retool Canada’s economy to be more internally robust and regional.
Short term pain, long term increase in resilience.
It’s an opportunity to retool Canada’s economy to be more internally robust and regional.
Short term pain, long term increase in resilience.
“The huge vortices of energy created by our media present us with possibilities of evasion or destruction. By studying the pattern of the effects of this huge vortex of energy in which we're involved, it may be possible to program a strategy of evasion and survival.”
— Marshall McLuhan, 1977
— Marshall McLuhan, 1977
January 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM
“The huge vortices of energy created by our media present us with possibilities of evasion or destruction. By studying the pattern of the effects of this huge vortex of energy in which we're involved, it may be possible to program a strategy of evasion and survival.”
— Marshall McLuhan, 1977
— Marshall McLuhan, 1977
Interesting data. Might we speculate about the sudden spike in creepo violence might have the result of what I will call the "Manson Effect"?
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Interesting data. Might we speculate about the sudden spike in creepo violence might have the result of what I will call the "Manson Effect"?
To think and speculate with intimations of earth, sea, and sky is to invite something approaching an open-ended ecological wisdom.
An intensely thought-provoking essay:
“To think philosophically about the sea… is to encounter a mode of being that resists the categories we have developed on land.”
An intensely thought-provoking essay:
“To think philosophically about the sea… is to encounter a mode of being that resists the categories we have developed on land.”
Abyssal Philosophy: Thinking at the Edge of the Unknowable
The Unground Beneath Us
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
To think and speculate with intimations of earth, sea, and sky is to invite something approaching an open-ended ecological wisdom.
An intensely thought-provoking essay:
“To think philosophically about the sea… is to encounter a mode of being that resists the categories we have developed on land.”
An intensely thought-provoking essay:
“To think philosophically about the sea… is to encounter a mode of being that resists the categories we have developed on land.”
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A book is a passport to countless worlds; each page is a journey waiting to be taken.
#BookLovers #ReadingJourney #BookWorm
#BookLovers #ReadingJourney #BookWorm
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 PM
A book is a passport to countless worlds; each page is a journey waiting to be taken.
#BookLovers #ReadingJourney #BookWorm
#BookLovers #ReadingJourney #BookWorm
"When enough of the world has been deterritorialized, when enough of the relational substrate has been converted into abstraction, the system begins eating its own foundation. The contradictions become too great to sustain. The machine, having consumed everything external, begins consuming itself."
A Regenerative Accelerationist Manifesto
Navigating the Technocapitalist Endgame
substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:25 AM
"When enough of the world has been deterritorialized, when enough of the relational substrate has been converted into abstraction, the system begins eating its own foundation. The contradictions become too great to sustain. The machine, having consumed everything external, begins consuming itself."
Never forget, the collapse of insurability is the canary in the coal mine that announces the collapse of private property-based finance.
Insured damages from extreme weather events in Canada were the 10th highest on record last year.
Between 2016 and 2025, insured losses from catastrophic weather events and wildfires totaled $37 billion—nearly triple the previous decade. www.newswire.ca/news-release...
Between 2016 and 2025, insured losses from catastrophic weather events and wildfires totaled $37 billion—nearly triple the previous decade. www.newswire.ca/news-release...
Severe weather-related insured losses in Canada exceed $2.4 billion in 2025
/CNW/ - Insured damage caused by severe weather events exceeded $2.4 billion in 2025, according to Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ). This...
www.newswire.ca
January 21, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Never forget, the collapse of insurability is the canary in the coal mine that announces the collapse of private property-based finance.
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This is a great video from Dami Lee exploring #solarpunk, as well as the real life history behind the genre.
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?
YouTube video by DamiLee
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January 21, 2026 at 5:42 PM
This is a great video from Dami Lee exploring #solarpunk, as well as the real life history behind the genre.
I listened to the speech and was absolutely blown away. Such bold honesty mixed with a historically nuanced vision for transforming the international order. Astounding.
My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Mark Carney just shook up the world
His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 AM
I listened to the speech and was absolutely blown away. Such bold honesty mixed with a historically nuanced vision for transforming the international order. Astounding.
It went exceptionally well!
I’m off to the Congo in a few months to give handful of public talks on *The Promise of Alternative Modernities* which will be based on the premise that “development” in the West/North should NOT be emulated in Africa.
A cautionary tale and suggestion for alternatives.
I’m off to the Congo in a few months to give handful of public talks on *The Promise of Alternative Modernities* which will be based on the premise that “development” in the West/North should NOT be emulated in Africa.
A cautionary tale and suggestion for alternatives.
Super stoked and nervous this evening.
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
January 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM
It went exceptionally well!
I’m off to the Congo in a few months to give handful of public talks on *The Promise of Alternative Modernities* which will be based on the premise that “development” in the West/North should NOT be emulated in Africa.
A cautionary tale and suggestion for alternatives.
I’m off to the Congo in a few months to give handful of public talks on *The Promise of Alternative Modernities* which will be based on the premise that “development” in the West/North should NOT be emulated in Africa.
A cautionary tale and suggestion for alternatives.
Havent read this, so cannot endorse, but I really like the idea of approaches to development that explicitly account of current and coming disasters while also framing it all as adaptation.
Lots of room there for alternative modernities via novel praxis for “development.”
Lots of room there for alternative modernities via novel praxis for “development.”
"The authors of this book provide concrete examples to help illustrate what it means to think and act simultaneously on development, disasters and climate."
@lisaschipper.bsky.social
Download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
@lisaschipper.bsky.social
Download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
January 20, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Havent read this, so cannot endorse, but I really like the idea of approaches to development that explicitly account of current and coming disasters while also framing it all as adaptation.
Lots of room there for alternative modernities via novel praxis for “development.”
Lots of room there for alternative modernities via novel praxis for “development.”
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"Revolution is not, ultimately, a political calculation. It is a moral one. It is grounded in a vision of another world, another way of being. It is driven, in the end, by a moral imperative, especially since many of those who begin a revolution do not survive to see its fulfillment." - Chris Hedges
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"Revolution is not, ultimately, a political calculation. It is a moral one. It is grounded in a vision of another world, another way of being. It is driven, in the end, by a moral imperative, especially since many of those who begin a revolution do not survive to see its fulfillment." - Chris Hedges
Super stoked and nervous this evening.
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
January 20, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Super stoked and nervous this evening.
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I have a meeting with a small Canada-Congo rural development NGO tomorrow, which might result in a side-gig consulting contract that will have me travelling to the Congo to coordinate the establishment of rural/village community-hub agroforestry farms.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
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#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
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👁️ “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” (Frank Herbert, Dune)
Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” (Frank Herbert, Dune)
January 19, 2026 at 12:22 PM
👁️ “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” (Frank Herbert, Dune)
Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.” (Frank Herbert, Dune)
Is the urban homestead a viable transition to whatever comes after the inevitable collapse of the consumer society?
Can a healing relationship with soil, food, and home bring us back to sanity in an increasingly troubled world?
Can a healing relationship with soil, food, and home bring us back to sanity in an increasingly troubled world?
Homegrown Revolution
The Urban Homestead
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Is the urban homestead a viable transition to whatever comes after the inevitable collapse of the consumer society?
Can a healing relationship with soil, food, and home bring us back to sanity in an increasingly troubled world?
Can a healing relationship with soil, food, and home bring us back to sanity in an increasingly troubled world?
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Silvopasture is a highly recommended climate solution and it’s slowly gaining momentum in South America.
Read the full article: news.mongabay.com/2026/01/silv...
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Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?
In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with Bolivia and Brazil, cattle ranchers are ditching grass monocultures, which have been shown to harm biodiver...
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January 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Silvopasture is a highly recommended climate solution and it’s slowly gaining momentum in South America.
Read the full article: news.mongabay.com/2026/01/silv...
Read the full article: news.mongabay.com/2026/01/silv...
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"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
March for Integrated Schools, April 18, 1959. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
March for Integrated Schools, April 18, 1959. Martin Luther King Jr.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe
in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi
You are the universe
in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi
a picture of a galaxy with a national geographic logo on the bottom
ALT: a picture of a galaxy with a national geographic logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe
in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi
You are the universe
in ecstatic motion.
~ Rumi
Rereading Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” (1993).
I first read this book in 2024 and it has a profound effect on me. It both broke my heart and then healed it.
“God is change.” “We are Earthseed.”
The whole of my vision of life given voice in one fell swoop. Butler left is a gift.
I first read this book in 2024 and it has a profound effect on me. It both broke my heart and then healed it.
“God is change.” “We are Earthseed.”
The whole of my vision of life given voice in one fell swoop. Butler left is a gift.
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Rereading Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” (1993).
I first read this book in 2024 and it has a profound effect on me. It both broke my heart and then healed it.
“God is change.” “We are Earthseed.”
The whole of my vision of life given voice in one fell swoop. Butler left is a gift.
I first read this book in 2024 and it has a profound effect on me. It both broke my heart and then healed it.
“God is change.” “We are Earthseed.”
The whole of my vision of life given voice in one fell swoop. Butler left is a gift.
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Forests planted on the edge of aridity are dying in plain sight.
The response? More mapping. More assessment. More planning.
This is the illusion of control at the moment it fails; treating collapse as a management problem instead of a biophysical limit.
apple.news/Ao-HhI3gAQNK...
The response? More mapping. More assessment. More planning.
This is the illusion of control at the moment it fails; treating collapse as a management problem instead of a biophysical limit.
apple.news/Ao-HhI3gAQNK...
Officials issue warning as worsening crisis pushes forests to brink of collapse: 'Unprecedented' — The Cool Down
apple.news
January 18, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Forests planted on the edge of aridity are dying in plain sight.
The response? More mapping. More assessment. More planning.
This is the illusion of control at the moment it fails; treating collapse as a management problem instead of a biophysical limit.
apple.news/Ao-HhI3gAQNK...
The response? More mapping. More assessment. More planning.
This is the illusion of control at the moment it fails; treating collapse as a management problem instead of a biophysical limit.
apple.news/Ao-HhI3gAQNK...
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Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
#neuroscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
#neuroscience
Opinion | What Are We Thinking?
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Neuroscience is moving away from a modular view of the brain because the brain is not modular. It is network of murmuring neurons. Great metaphor by @pessoabrain.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
#neuroscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/o...
#neuroscience
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Reintroduction...
I'm a neuroscientist interested in emotion-motivation-cognition interactions.
Interested in conceptual/foundational issues.
I also wrote a book for general audience readers called The Entangled Brain that is open access at MIT Press.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
#neuroscience
I'm a neuroscientist interested in emotion-motivation-cognition interactions.
Interested in conceptual/foundational issues.
I also wrote a book for general audience readers called The Entangled Brain that is open access at MIT Press.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
#neuroscience
The Entangled Brain
A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ.Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cog...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 10, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Reintroduction...
I'm a neuroscientist interested in emotion-motivation-cognition interactions.
Interested in conceptual/foundational issues.
I also wrote a book for general audience readers called The Entangled Brain that is open access at MIT Press.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
#neuroscience
I'm a neuroscientist interested in emotion-motivation-cognition interactions.
Interested in conceptual/foundational issues.
I also wrote a book for general audience readers called The Entangled Brain that is open access at MIT Press.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026254460...
#neuroscience
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings. Behaviors arise from interactions, not central control.”
Essay by Luis @pessoabrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience #ComplexityScience #CognitiveScience
Essay by Luis @pessoabrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience #ComplexityScience #CognitiveScience
How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
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January 18, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings. Behaviors arise from interactions, not central control.”
Essay by Luis @pessoabrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience #ComplexityScience #CognitiveScience
Essay by Luis @pessoabrain.bsky.social #Neuroscience #ComplexityScience #CognitiveScience
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