Ramsey Affifi

<i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - <i>What Is Life?</i> Revisited

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

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.

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 🦠🧪🌐💡

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Thank you for agreeing to our invitation. It was a great talk!

‘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...

My new article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@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?

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...)

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...

The ecology of sublimity, new article (nice xmas gift): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nice- who is the framer of the system from the Philbio perspective? :D

Slime Mould and Philosophy Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy

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!

‘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

Thoughts? www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Temperature change perception (even without actual temp change) leads to inherited epigenetic modifications:

@levparikian.bsky.social

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 ...

New article on some of my antics when teaching: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’d be happy to be added to the starter pack, if you think it makes sense

Congratulations on your newest publication!

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

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

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