What is the absolute worst thing human beings have enabled in the modern era?

No, no, forget the usual topics

It is this:

😱 🦟

" #Mosquitoes have arrived in #Iceland

Three #mosquitos were found in Kjós recently. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. This is the first time that the flies have been found on Icelandic soil."

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-10-20-moskitoflugur-komnar-til-islands-456599

#Mosquito #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Environment #Biology #Science #Ísland

What is the absolute worst thing human beings have enabled in the modern era?

No, no, forget the usual topics

It is this:

😱 🦟

" #Mosquitoes have arrived in #Iceland

Three #mosquitos were found in Kjós recently. This has been confirmed by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. This is the first time that the flies have been found on Icelandic soil."

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-10-20-moskitoflugur-komnar-til-islands-456599

#Mosquito #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Environment #Biology #Science #Ísland

Open Humanities Press has published a 2nd edition of Timothy Morton's Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Comes complete with a new preface by Morton.

Like all OHP books, Realist Magic is available open access:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/realist-magic-2nd-ed/

Book description

#ObjectOriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in #physics since 1900. Causality, argues Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is #aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in #physics, #biology, #ecology, #art, #literature and #music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

#philosophy #theory

The book is published as part of the New Metaphysics series:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/

Open Humanities Press has published a 2nd edition of Timothy Morton's Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality. Comes complete with a new preface by Morton.

Like all OHP books, Realist Magic is available open access:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/realist-magic-2nd-ed/

Book description

#ObjectOriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in #physics since 1900. Causality, argues Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is #aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in #physics, #biology, #ecology, #art, #literature and #music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

#philosophy #theory

The book is published as part of the New Metaphysics series:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/new-metaphysics/

How much can a #connectome tell us about the activity of neurons? It seems not all that much:

"neuronal perturbation often prompted responses from cells that had no anatomical connections to the target cell"

https://www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/worms-help-untangle-longstanding-brain-structure-function-mystery/

#neuroscience #biology

How much can a #connectome tell us about the activity of neurons? It seems not all that much:

"neuronal perturbation often prompted responses from cells that had no anatomical connections to the target cell"

https://www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/worms-help-untangle-longstanding-brain-structure-function-mystery/

#neuroscience #biology

I just got back from a tiny but fun biennial conference that I enjoy. Mostly local to #Ohio (USA).

It is officially a #conference on " #sensing and #sensors" but it has presentations on #science, #biology (animal sensing), #neuroscience, #ElectronicsHacking, #AI, #art/artists/art history (sort of), and so on. Last time #psychedelics came up. This time #TBI.

With #poetry readings, #soundscapes, #music performances, and films added for good measure.

Very small this year. I hope it survives.

I just got back from a tiny but fun biennial conference that I enjoy. Mostly local to #Ohio (USA).

It is officially a #conference on " #sensing and #sensors" but it has presentations on #science, #biology (animal sensing), #neuroscience, #ElectronicsHacking, #AI, #art/artists/art history (sort of), and so on. Last time #psychedelics came up. This time #TBI.

With #poetry readings, #soundscapes, #music performances, and films added for good measure.

Very small this year. I hope it survives.