Richard Fisher
@richardfisher.bsky.social
Senior Editor, Aeon | Author of non-fiction book The Long View | Honorary professor in science communication, UCL | Formerly: BBC Future, MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow, New Scientist | https://richardfisher.carrd.co
that's me in the picture, enjoying my mid-40s
September 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
that's me in the picture, enjoying my mid-40s
...whereas Eadweard Muybridge - another brain injury survivor who was a contemporary of Gage's, but a different class - has been lauded. I had seen Muybridge's photography (it's displayed in my local cinema in Kingston where he was born, for instance). What I never realised: he murdered a guy.
June 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
...whereas Eadweard Muybridge - another brain injury survivor who was a contemporary of Gage's, but a different class - has been lauded. I had seen Muybridge's photography (it's displayed in my local cinema in Kingston where he was born, for instance). What I never realised: he murdered a guy.
The macabre book covers alone are great! You can browse more at Fleur's instagram www.instagram.com/merveilleux_...
June 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The macabre book covers alone are great! You can browse more at Fleur's instagram www.instagram.com/merveilleux_...
This is an interesting essay on gen AI by the philosopher Andy Clark, of the 'extended mind' idea. A few extracts that struck me: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is an interesting essay on gen AI by the philosopher Andy Clark, of the 'extended mind' idea. A few extracts that struck me: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This week, Psyche magazine has started running short 300-word pieces called 'Notes to Self'. I wrote this one about the 'pain cave' and the astonishing ultrarunning of Courtney Dauwalter psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
May 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This week, Psyche magazine has started running short 300-word pieces called 'Notes to Self'. I wrote this one about the 'pain cave' and the astonishing ultrarunning of Courtney Dauwalter psyche.co/notes-to-sel...
Read more from Psyche's Editor @christianjarrett.bsky.social about the thinking behind it all: psyche.co/relaunch-ann...
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Read more from Psyche's Editor @christianjarrett.bsky.social about the thinking behind it all: psyche.co/relaunch-ann...
Congratulations to my colleagues at @psyche.co, who have relaunched the Psyche site today with a fresh look, a revitalised mission, and all-new treatments. Its simple goal is to help you know your self and live well psyche.co
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Congratulations to my colleagues at @psyche.co, who have relaunched the Psyche site today with a fresh look, a revitalised mission, and all-new treatments. Its simple goal is to help you know your self and live well psyche.co
Ah thank you! Just cobbled one together for me and my daughter using my advanced crafts abilities
March 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Ah thank you! Just cobbled one together for me and my daughter using my advanced crafts abilities
Happy UK publication day to @alternity.com: the multi-talented Sumit Paul-Choudhury. His new book The Bright Side is really very good, and I'd highly recommend it. It transformed my understanding of what optimism can and should mean canongate.co.uk/books/4754-t...
January 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy UK publication day to @alternity.com: the multi-talented Sumit Paul-Choudhury. His new book The Bright Side is really very good, and I'd highly recommend it. It transformed my understanding of what optimism can and should mean canongate.co.uk/books/4754-t...
Sinkholes always make me feel a mix of awe and dread. Such striking photography here www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
December 4, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Sinkholes always make me feel a mix of awe and dread. Such striking photography here www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
Huh perhaps the first person to use the term "brain rot" was not a Tiktokker... it was Henry David Thoreau in Walden: "While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 2, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Huh perhaps the first person to use the term "brain rot" was not a Tiktokker... it was Henry David Thoreau in Walden: "While England endeavours to cure the potato rot, will not any endeavour to cure the brain-rot – which prevails so much more widely and fatally?" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This makes sense to me: @mathonan.com on the splintering of social media & the end of the global town square. "In the long run, massive, centralized social networks will prove to be an aberration. We are going to use different networks for different things." www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/18/1...
November 22, 2024 at 6:30 AM
This makes sense to me: @mathonan.com on the splintering of social media & the end of the global town square. "In the long run, massive, centralized social networks will prove to be an aberration. We are going to use different networks for different things." www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/18/1...
or Omak Rock in Washington State
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
or Omak Rock in Washington State
the Golden Rock in Myanmar
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
the Golden Rock in Myanmar
...such as Kummakivi in Finland
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
...such as Kummakivi in Finland