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Ramsey Affifi
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Ecologising thinking, feeling, interacting, and teaching
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Did you know that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology?

Now you do. Amazing!

#ComplexSystems 🦠🧪🌐💡

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
Bacterial Route Finding and Collective Escape in Mazes and Fractals
Experiments show that E. coli bacteria employ a number of strategies to explore complex environments, navigating mazes and fractals much more efficiently than would be expected for a random walk.
journals.aps.org
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
@dalianassar.bsky.social hi, I am interested in the idea of educating perception that came out in your book. Do you have a shorter piece that would be appropriate for students on this?
January 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Superb. (And full marks to @nature.com for publishing a commentary critical of a paper it is also publishing - though of course that raises questions in itself...)
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
Slime Mould and Philosophy
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy
doi.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Temperature change perception (even without actual temp change) leads to inherited epigenetic modifications:
Whaaaa!??? Epigenetics keeps surprising!
Scared to share this after 10 freaking years of waiting, but here we go: We found that temperature *perception* can change the biology of the next generations, even when “it’s just in the parents' head”. Read how C. elegans neurons control epigenetic inheritance!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 6, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
December 5, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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Just one week until our workshop on plants in history, philosophy and society!🌷 You can still register to participate - it is completely free and open to everyone interested! Just send a message through our contact form: rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora/contac....
#PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
November 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Hi! I am a philosopher working in education interested in environmental, ecological and biology education, and aesthetic and alternative pedagogies. Based at university of Edinburgh
November 17, 2024 at 2:38 PM