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Ramsey Affifi

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Ecologising thinking, feeling, interacting, and teaching

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Neal Agarwal @neal.fun · 10/12/2025
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Daniel J Nicholson @djnicholson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
My little book on Schrödinger's famous classic 'What Is Life?' is out! Offering the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the book's origins, reception, impact, and legacy, it uncovers Schrödinger's motivations in writing it, and shows how it has shaped our current understanding of the cell
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<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Did you know that chemosensitive motile E. coli can efficiently explore nontrivial mazes in times much shorter than a no-memory (Markovian) walk would predict, and can collectively escape from a fractal topology? Now you do. Amazing! #ComplexSystems 🦠🧪🌐💡 journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
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Bacterial Route Finding and Collective Escape in Mazes and Fractals
Experiments show that E. coli bacteria employ a number of strategies to explore complex environments, navigating mazes and fractals much more efficiently than would be expected for a random walk.
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My new article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education
This article illustrates and discusses ‘dialectical pedagogy’ through reflections on five lectures on plants composed for Environmental Education postgraduates and Initial Teacher science educators...
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
@dalianassar.bsky.social hi, I am interested in the idea of educating perception that came out in your book. Do you have a shorter piece that would be appropriate for students on this?
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Superb. (And full marks to @nature.com for publishing a commentary critical of a paper it is also publishing - though of course that raises questions in itself...)
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The ecology of sublimity, new article (nice xmas gift): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The ecology of sublimity: educational tensions between existence and the ungraspable
Sublime experiences are complex, poorly understood and articulated, but central to environmental education. They are also enabled, modified and threatened by scientific knowledge, ideas and practic...
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Matthew Sims @philosobio.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
My new book, Slime Mould and Philosophy, is now available — and for the next month, you can download it for FREE here: doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to everyone who made this book come to life and shared the rather intense journey with me. Enjoy!
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Slime Mould and Philosophy
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Thoughts? www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Temperature change perception (even without actual temp change) leads to inherited epigenetic modifications:
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
New article on some of my antics when teaching: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Trickster teaching and the anthropocene: disrupting the explicitification of pedagogy, people and planet
In cultures committed to making everything explicit, calling for trickery in education seems suspicious. However, for better or worse, trickery is already prevalent in education. In particular, it ...
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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just one week until our workshop on plants in history, philosophy and society!🌷 You can still register to participate - it is completely free and open to everyone interested! Just send a message through our contact form: rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora/contac.... #PhilSci #HistSci #HPBio
Poster for the 11th RUB Workshop on the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, entitled "Flora in focus: Tracing the roots of plants in history, philosophy and society". It will be held at Ruhr University Bochum on 28-29 November 2024. The speaker line-up and their abstracts can be found at https://rotoworkshop2024.wixsite.com/flora. The workshop is organized by Vera Straetmanns and Jan Baedke
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Ramsey Affifi @affifi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi! I am a philosopher working in education interested in environmental, ecological and biology education, and aesthetic and alternative pedagogies. Based at university of Edinburgh
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