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Just gave a talk at the INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico in Florence on our new paper disputing the "Hard Steps" model for the evolution of intelligence. Lesson: Astrobiology needs deep conversations with domain experts. arxiv.org/abs/2408.10293 Astrowright

About to go on MSNBC to talk about the Ice Giants and new results on their possibly oceanic interiors.

Hell yeah!

Here is my conversation with Lex Fridman on astrobiology, the human future, the physics of life, the nature of consciousness and why The Expanse was the greatest Sci-fi show ever. It really was big fun!

Just Google “how complete is the fossil record“ and the answer will be right there. The fossil record is quite incomplete. Most things do not get fossilized. Read the paper by Gavin Schmidt and myself for more details. There is more work to be done here, however for sure.

That is true. He and Varela did more work with it and then Varela continued to refine its logic.

New EXCELLENT Astrobiology textbook by Lingam and Balbi. Aimed at upper undergrads (or anyone with some math and science training) it is destined to become a standard for the field. I want to teach a course at the UR with it. Amedeo Balbi

My @BigThink piece on the future of the nation-state under the pressures of the Anthropocene. Ideas taken from Berggruen Institute and Noema Magazine and the Planetary Summit in Venice. bigthink.com/the-present/is…

Does anybody know what’s going on with Breakthrough Starshot?

why? That’s really sad. It seemed like our best shot long-term for getting interstellar probes. Obviously very speculative technology, but what are we left with… lighting off nuclear bombs behind a pusher plate?

As Lloyd’s of London CEO John Neal puts it, “You’ll never find an insurer saying ‘I don’t believe in climate change.’”

This is sooooooooo exciting. Could go away with more data but it’s exactly the kind of path we’d expect on the road finding life. skyatnightmagazine.com/news/k2-18b-di…

We already have that technology! It’s how this result was obtained. The point is the next versions of this NASA telescope tech will be even better. (Unless this admin continues killing US science)

This was such a fun conversation with Mayim Bialik. I really enjoyed getting to talk about so many topics in Astrobiology and science (and why most UAP stuff is dubious at best 😀)

The purposeful dismantling of American scientific leadership will be looked back upon as the greatest self-own in history.

New paper with 李开诚 Lukáš Likavčan! "The Planetary and Its Uses. Grounding Political Economy in an Astrobiological Perspective" The project combined 2 very different disciplines find 1 path through the anthropocene towards a mature technosphere. osf.io/preprints/soca…

If you are interested in consciousness and have not gotten Annaka Harris Light's On you are missing out. Lots of VERY interesting conversations on what is and what is not that strange feeling of "what its like to be..."

And in other news... Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson and I have started a podcast! The Blind Spot. Science, philosophy and more but not the usual reductionist, triumphalist view. New ways of understanding the Universe with us in it. Episode 1 here. youtube.com/watch?v=GXXOl3…