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

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...

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

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!

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

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

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

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