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Ryan McGranaghan

@aerosciengineer.bsky.social
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Dad, space scientist, engineer, data scientist, designer, podcast host. Observer of beauty in liminal spaces. I believe in being led around by your curiosity.

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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(1/2) Maria Heim studies ancient and classical Indian philosophy and literature. Yet, in her thinking and writing and teaching the canon expanding across the three millennia comes alive, present for each of us, incontrovertibly important to the world we are walking into @tricyclemag.bsky.social
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
(1/3) David Germano is an educator, scientist, and renown scholar of ancient India. In his work and life are genuine teachings of care and loving-kindness tinyurl.com/Origins-Germ...
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David Germano - Ancient wisdom for modern (and future) flourishing — Origins
David Germano is an educator, scientist, and renown Tibetologist. But to let his life and work be merely a list would be an irreparable simplification, inappropriate as framing for this conversation...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If your research connects disciplines to better understand interconnected hazards, socio-ecological-technological systems, resilience, or emerging forms of risk, we invite you to submit to and join us - "Navigating Complex Risk in the 21st Century" at AGU 2026 agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...
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Navigating Complex Risk in the 21st Century
The 21st century is defined by deep interdependence, crossing Earth and space environments, social and technological systems, and the physical and human sciences. As complexity reshapes risk landscape...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
(1/3) The Great Askers is an occasional Origins Podcast extra, where we nourish a sensibility of asking and cultivate great askers by exploring it with people who have singularly practiced it. Here's the inaugural episode www.originspodcast.co/episodes-1/t...
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The Great Askers (episode 1): Sara Hendren and Krista Tippett — Origins
We are starting a new series called ‘the great askers’ to center the philosophy and practice of asking questions. We will do this be talking with the people asking the most meaningful, searching, even...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
(1/3) The fundamental challenges confronting humanity are not the failure of particular nations or institutions or businesses or civil organizations, but rather the disconnect between our economic, political, and social systems. Dennis Snower and David Sloan Wilson are ameliorating the decoupling
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
(1/3) Guru Madhavan ( @bioengineergm.bsky.social ) reverences the world and all that is in it. Guru is an engineer, but his conception of engineering is more vast than we typically assign to the role.
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
(1/2) Francesca Samsel is crafting a new language for our world. That is, she crosses art, science, and visualization to open new ways of understanding and engaging with the natural world, not just visually but across the sensorial spectrum. #SciArt #BreakthroughScience #FallingWalls
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
(1/2) Malka Older ( @older.bsky.social ) makes a life at the crossroads of our existing and future worlds. Between the sociology of organizations and of disaster to speculative fiction, Older lives the great paradox in front of us all: to live at the nexus of lived experience and imagined future
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
(1/3) Biologist, philosopher, educator, facilitator, and historian of science Mette Miriam Böll is embodiment of the kind of life that emerges when we accept, recognize, and revere our profound interconnectedness
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
(1/2) Dan Jay has spent his life in the liminal space between art and science, domains of inquiry too often considered separate, even opposing. Yet, it is transformative creativity only possible from the conversation between art and science that we seem to be called to now
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Dan Jay - Doubt, collectivity, and transformative creativity — Origins
Dr. Dan Jay has a mission to inspire where art and science meet. His life has been spent in the liminal and generative space between and among these domains of inquiry that are too often considered se...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
(1/3) Zachary Ugolnik refuses the tired narrative about the separateness of science and spirituality, reason and religion. With him is wisdom for a society of care and flourishing, one that constellates across theology, ecology, and the social sciences
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
(1/3) convening a pair of sessions at this December's #AGU25 meeting around two of the key dimensions not only for sharing latest results but for imagining and setting an agenda for the future of science. We hope you will submit your work and be a part of these conversations!
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Renee Davis @reneedavis.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Flourishing is not a fixed point. It’s a dance of becoming. I’m co-editing a special section in Leonardo (MIT Press) with @aerosciengineer.bsky.social on flourishing and we’re inviting your work. 🌀 July 1 – Sept 15 💠 Topics: kinship, attention, beautiful questions 🔗 leonardo.info/opportunity/...
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CALL FOR PAPERS | Flourishing as Ongoingness and Collectivity in Form and Process: A Dialectical Encounter
Guest Editors: Ryan McGranaghan, Renee Davis, and Nick Travaglini In a time of disorientation and raw emotion, the question of flourishing becomes even more urgent—and profoundly collective. We invite...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New essay out on The Flourishing Commons today, thinking about the dynamics of reframing now ryanmcgranaghan.substack.com/p/flourishin... @templetonfdn.bsky.social @sloanfoundation.bsky.social @onbeing.bsky.social
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
(1/3) Jennifer Wiseman gives expression to our cosmos, as a pioneering astrophysicist, an advocate for science within policy and public, and a person of faith. She brings into conversation sensibilities of a scientist, a theologian, and a human being in awe of the universe
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Renee Davis @reneedavis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We recently at the Aspen Institute to talk about flourishing - what it is, how we assess it, and what it looks like to build a field of Flourishing Studies. TY @aspeninstitute.bsky.social for hosting us and to @aerosciengineer.bsky.social who has been convening these discussions in salons for years.
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
(1/2) Susan Magsamen makes her life at the frontier of neuroscience, of institutional change, of the intersection of art and science. Her's is a life full of wisdom for how to live amidst mystery and befriend complexity @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @neuroai.bsky.social @blamlab.bsky.social
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
(1/3) Few concepts are more important to our society than resilience. If resilience is a core competency of our time, it would not be hyperbole to say that Dr. David Woods is one of our most important thinkers. #Resilience #complexity #GracefulExtensibility
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
(1/3) Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social lives his life in exploration. His scholarship as his life are inspiration for keeping the lines of inquiry wide open and what can be discovered along the way
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
(1/2) John Paul Lederach knows as much about conflict transformation as anyone in our world; who has been present and has participated across multiple decades in multiple continents where real social transformation and real cultural evolution has happened
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John Paul Lederach - Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination — Origins
I've been following John Paul Lederach's work for years, finding the words he uses inordinately relevant to all of the details and spaces of my life. John Paul is Professor of International Peacebuild...
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
(1/3) Flourishing is not a fixed state; it is an unfolding. In this time of rupture we need encounters with flourishing, to know it in our lived experiences individually and collectively @jamessuzman.bsky.social #DanielleAllen
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/12/2024
Susan Magsamen using Greg Dunn's #sciart to discuss how the brain responds to art @NAS
Woman speaking at lectern, large brain diagram on screen
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Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What are the relationships among art, science, technology, and culture? How did these disciplines relate to one another to foster creativity, innovation, and discovery? What are the tangible results of these interactions? #iTeachMath
Remarks and introductions by Ryan McGranaghan, guest moderator, Space Physicist & Data Scientist, NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (based in MD)
Presentations
Susan Magsamen, executive director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, co-director, NeuroArts Blueprint, and co-author, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Julie Demuth, lead, National Science Foundation
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR)
Convergence Science Program, and Project Scientist III, NSF NCAR Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Lab, Boulder, CO
Jennifer J. Wiseman, senior project scientist, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, director-emeritus, AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER)
Dan Jay, dean emeritus, professor emeritus of Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, part-time lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MASusan Magsamen
Your Brain on Art: Cultivating Flourishing Through Creativity
Susan will discuss the transformative power of art on the brain and its profound impact on human flourishing. Art enhances emotional well-being, cognitive function, and social connection. Her talk will explore how engaging with art-through painting, music, writing, or performance activates brain regions associated with reward, empathy, and resilience. Participants will gain insights into using creative expression to cultivate a flourishing life, promote mindfulness, and enhance well-being, with practical tips for integrating art into daily life.
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The Fascinating Work of Integrating the Nonlinear, Chaotic, and Dynamic Atmospheric and
Social Systems
Julie will share the nonlinear, chaotic, and dynamic path that led her to become an interdisciplinarian, with degrees in atmospheric science and risk communication.
She'll then discuss how tackling some of the most critical but challenging problems facing science and society requires teams that deeply integrate diverse expertise.Jennifer J. Wiseman
The Heavens Above Inspiring
Life Below
The world is unanimous about one thing: fascination with space. Jennifer will share some of the latest astronomical discoveries, and how a shared sense of awe and wonder from scientific discovery can build bridges between scientists, faith communities, and all people.
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ENFOLD Sci-Art: A Unicorn Breeding Farm for the 21st
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Dan will discuss the importance and urgency of merging art and science to address the planet's complex problems.
Drawing from his unique experience of having parallel, siloed careers in both fields that have recently converged, he will share insights on this interdisciplinary approach. He will also highlight his efforts to establish a nexus for the Sci-Art Community through the Burroughs Wellcome Fund's ENFOLD Sci-Art initiative.
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Ryan McGranaghan @aerosciengineer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Providing beautiful conversations with thought-leaders across art, science, design, and engineering in the #OriginsPodcast originspodcast.co Subscribe, leave comment, or suggest new guests any time!
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Origins
Website for the podcast that traces the pivotal moments in the careers and lives of profound thought-leaders in science, engineering, art, and design. Hosted by Ryan McGranaghan.
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