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Science writer covering physical sciences and complexity | 🦋@elisecutts.bsky.social
Graz, Austria
Joined April 2021
Thank you to all the researchers who so generously took the time to speak with me for this story. It wouldn't have been possible without you. And thank you to my editor for taking a risk on me with this story! It's wild to see something I wrote on a magazine cover.
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The Free Energy Principle is an ambitious framework that started in cognitive science but now defines what it means for something to exist at all. For New Scientist, I asked what the FEP is, really: a theory of everything? Or maybe not a theory at all? https://t.co/2wTv8CHwgJ
newscientist.com
What life is and how the mind works fall within the compass of one bold concept. But critics say that by attempting to explain everything, it may end up explaining nothing
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Thinking about this, I wonder whether networks formed by researchers agreeing with each other would look different than networks formed when papers cite each other mainly to bash each other..
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Does anyone have a good tool for visually seeing scholarly citation networks? I'd love a way to quickly get a sense of which papers are "hubs" within a field and who cites who.
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I'm working on a story about hair loss and want to talk with a few folks who've experienced it. I'm esp. interested in hearing from women who lost hair in menopause AND/OR people who tried treatments for hair loss. DM if you want to talk or connect me to someone
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Jokes aside, I'm enjoying this book (Ends of the World by Peter Brannen) enough to look past the author's merciless takedown of the ecosystem I researched for two years during my masters. But now that I mention it, I was studying... microbial slime. So, point taken I guess.
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I've never seen such a savage take on stromatolites. "uninspiring mounds of muck" — oof.
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How emergence happens has long been debated amongst physicists, biologists and philosophers alike. A new framework identifies the hierarchical structure that’s key to how order emerges on macroscopic scales. @philipcball reports:
quantamagazine.org
The puzzle of emergence asks how regularities emerge on macro scales out of uncountable constituent parts. A new framework has researchers hopeful that a solution is near.
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I love astrobio but I'd also love it if planets themselves could get half the hype biosignatures do — especially since, right now, we could barely interpret an atmospheric exoplanet biosiganture even if we found one. https://t.co/zIUM9BiFVB
quantamagazine.org
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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The little hill I will die on is that planets are still interesting even if there's nothing alive on them. JWST is poised to answer some seriously amazing questions about planets. Whether aliens live on any of them is not one of them. https://t.co/BEivu4Acnt
sciencenews.org
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
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With new computer models and inspiration from nature, scientists are decoding the secrets of how water freezes. @elisecutts reports: https://t.co/QJ9ZlHQKKE
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The cats kinda blur into an abstract pattern if you're far enough away. But only if you're far enough away. I don't know if I should be proud of this or ashamed. Probably both.
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Realized that the most formal piece of clothing I own is an olive-green, cat-print dress. And no, not cat print like cheetah spots. I mean literal cats all over the dress.
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Me again on the "biosignatures are tricky" beat: DMS, that biosignature gas that was ***maybe*** found on habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b has now been found on a lifeless comet. Barring unimaginably weird comet life, DMS must have an abiotic source. https://t.co/W05xCMoKIA
science.org
Touted as a “biosignature” on an alien planet, dimethyl sulfide also seems to arise in banal ways
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Scientists exhumed some 6 million year old (!!!!) ice from Antarctica. That's truly wild. The continuous ice core record goes back 800,000 years. And the oldest ice ever found until now was 2.7 million years old. Reported from #egu2024
https://t.co/zkCZPV5RDb
science.org
Climate snapshots suggest carbon dioxide levels were surprisingly modest during ancient warm period
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Presenting awesome research at #EGU24 that the public should know about? I’m a science journalist at the conference and want to meet scientists while I’m here. Just shoot me a DM or email if you’d like to connect to talk about your work!
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I'm hungry...I could really go for some loanwords about now
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Im aktuellen @sciam berichtet @elisecutts über die Forschung von @CmTonauer zu exotischen Eisformen. Sie erzeugt im Labor Eis wie es im Weltall oder auf Monden von Saturn und Jupiter vorkommt. #AlienIce #wasser #chemie
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“A bit like on Earth—people are using communication cables to do seismology on Earth. So why not on the Moon?” New research from Wenbo Wu @WHOI, input from @lowvelocityzone @umdgeology and Raphaël Garcia @ISAE_officiel, story by @elisecutts. https://t.co/D1BHbuBFvC
eos.org
Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.
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Honored and excited that our research on❄️ordering deuterated ices❄️published in @PNASNexus caught the attention of @sciam ! Huge shout-out to @elisecutts for the insightful explanation on 'How to Make Alien Ice'. 🌌❄️ #Ice #Research #PNASNexus
https://t.co/lLV2wJW1Du
scientificamerican.com
Tricks to produce strange “ordered” ice could reveal new ice forms
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