I would like to welcome the US paperback version of WE ARE ELECTRIC to the family. Out today with a new afterword about gut electricity, the possibility of electrical tests for gastroparesis, and the little electric stomach that lives in your brain!.

First it was the plants that seemed to be unaccountably smart. Then came the fungi, the bacteria, the paramecia, the cells -- evidence is piling up that things can do brainy things without having brains. But what does it all mean? . My latest for @Noema .

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Can the hive mind please help me with a dead end? I'm looking for info on a 70s-era researcher called Jean Pierre Biscar. He was a physics prof at U of Wyoming from 1969-75. If you know someone who knew him, or understood his theories, please get in touch galvanotaxis@proton.me.

Finally found some time to binge @cragcrest's new podcast, Uncertain. It's excellent! This is my favourite episode. It's about finding the strength not to double down when you're wrong. Which is really hard.

This month, We Are Electric is in paperback! The US version has a nifty afterword about the electric signals that drive your gut and how they (may) interface with the electric signals in the gut/brain axis. It's out on June 11!.

What is the difference between electroceuticals and bioelectronic medicine and neuromodulation? If one works, will they all?. It took me 6 months to untangle this terminological rat king. Eternal gratitude to @rcourt for guiding me out of the rabbit holes.

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Currently being eaten alive by that stage of life where you're barely in touch with your oldest, best friends so you can really maximise your focus on all the grimmest and most tedious makework life has to offer. Yes, I will be picking up this book.

RT @newscientist: An experimental Alzheimer's treatment involving sounds and flickering lights may slow cognitive decline by ramping up our….

By the way, if this really interests you, the bioelectricity researcher whose work is profiled in the article - Michael Levin - has just started a site where he writes for general audiences, not just academics.

The study of this "basal cognition" - and its electrical underpinnings - will dethrone the nervous system as the center of all intelligence, just as Copernicus demoted us from geocentrism.

Despite longstanding insistence that brains are the world's only example of intelligence, we share our collective intelligence with every other form of life on this planet.

This very good article is a bit undersold by its headline.

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@ScienceNews @behscientist @Telegraph @nypost @FT @simonwwriter @nytimes @newscientist @GregoryCowles @nytimesbooks @thetimes @jonWturney @theartsdesk @sciam @StylistMagazine @ScienceCaroline @DrMichaelBrooks I'm so, so grateful to the people who spent their time with this book and shared its message. It was a yearslong labour of love, and yet this book has only scratched the surface of a field with incredible potential ba dum tish.

@ScienceNews @behscientist @Telegraph @nypost @FT @simonwwriter @nytimes @newscientist @GregoryCowles @nytimesbooks @thetimes @jonWturney @theartsdesk @sciam @StylistMagazine @ScienceCaroline “This book blew my mind. We Are Electric is a thrilling read, and Sally Adee explains everything from the intricacies of our electric cells to the potential for new medical treatments - and brain-hacking - with a sparkling clarity.” @DrMichaelBrooks.

@ScienceNews @behscientist @Telegraph @nypost @FT @simonwwriter @nytimes @newscientist @GregoryCowles @nytimesbooks @thetimes @jonWturney @theartsdesk @sciam @StylistMagazine "The ‘ohmigod-that’s-so-cool’ moments come thick and fast as she brings the science up to date,.investigating today’s cutting edge and what the future may hold for bioelectric medicine." @ScienceCaroline.Author of Move! The New Science of Body over Mind.

@ScienceNews @behscientist @Telegraph @nypost @FT @simonwwriter @nytimes @newscientist @GregoryCowles @nytimesbooks @thetimes @jonWturney @theartsdesk @sciam ‘A book that’ll make you fundamentally rethink what you know and appreciate about your body’ @StylistMagazine.