Joshua E. Brown
@JoshBVT
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Science writer & photographer @UVMVermont. Publications in @BostonGlobe @WSJ @BBC @USNews. Writing faculty @uvmfnprogram. @BrownUniversity alum. 💚🦇
Burlington, VT
Joined February 2015
uvm.edu
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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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Lacrosse returns to the Olympics in 2028, on American soil. Why won’t the I.O.C. let Indigenous North American teams compete?
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newspaper writing: the birthing center where metaphors go to die.
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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
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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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Opinion | The newly inaugurated U.S. president is missing the real strategic and economic value of the island: its ice.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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The most important news story I've ever written.
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?"
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Nature - It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when thinking about the damage that might be wrought by global warming — but that is missing the point.
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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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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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US tree nurseries do not grow enough trees and lack the plant species diversity to meet ambitious plans, research says
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3/5 The first one also got picked up in @WIRED: https://t.co/kCzTAJx9V3
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