Science writer covering physical sciences and complexity | π¦@elisecutts.bsky.social
Graz, Austria
Joined April 2021
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The Free Energy Principle is an ambitious framework that started in cognitive science but now defines what it means for something to exist at all.
For New Scientist, I asked what the FEP is, really: a theory of everything? Or maybe not a theory at all?
newscientist.com/article/mg2β¦
Does anyone have a good tool for visually seeing scholarly citation networks? I'd love a way to quickly get a sense of which papers are "hubs" within a field and who cites who.
I'm working on a story about hair loss and want to talk with a few folks who've experienced it.
I'm esp. interested in hearing from women who lost hair in menopause AND/OR people who tried treatments for hair loss.
DM if you want to talk or connect me to someone
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How emergence happens has long been debated amongst physicists, biologists and philosophers alike. A new framework identifies the hierarchical structure thatβs key to how order emerges on macroscopic scales. @philipcball reports: quantamagazine.org/the-new-mβ¦
The little hill I will die on is that planets are still interesting even if there's nothing alive on them.
JWST is poised to answer some seriously amazing questions about planets. Whether aliens live on any of them is not one of them.
sciencenews.org/article/nasaβ¦
I love astrobio but I'd also love it if planets themselves could get half the hype biosignatures do β especially since, right now, we could barely interpret an atmospheric exoplanet biosiganture even if we found one.
quantamagazine.org/doubts-grβ¦
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With new computer models and inspiration from nature, scientists are decoding the secrets of how water freezes. @elisecutts reports: quantamagazine.org/the-endurβ¦
Realized that the most formal piece of clothing I own is an olive-green, cat-print dress.
And no, not cat print like cheetah spots. I mean literal cats all over the dress.
Me again on the "biosignatures are tricky" beat:
DMS, that biosignature gas that was ***maybe*** found on habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b has now been found on a lifeless comet.
Barring unimaginably weird comet life, DMS must have an abiotic source.
science.org/content/article/β¦
Scientists exhumed some 6 million year old (!!!!) ice from Antarctica.
That's truly wild. The continuous ice core record goes back 800,000 years. And the oldest ice ever found until now was 2.7 million years old.
Reported from #egu2024
science.org/content/article/β¦
Presenting awesome research at #EGU24 that the public should know about?
Iβm a science journalist at the conference and want to meet scientists while Iβm here.
Just shoot me a DM or email if youβd like to connect to talk about your work!
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I'm hungry...I could really go for some loanwords about now
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Im aktuellen @sciam berichtet @elisecutts ΓΌber die Forschung von @CmTonauer zu exotischen Eisformen. Sie erzeugt im Labor Eis wie es im Weltall oder auf Monden von Saturn und Jupiter vorkommt. #AlienIce #wasser #chemie
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βA bit like on Earthβpeople are using communication cables to do seismology on Earth. So why not on the Moon?β
New research from Wenbo Wu @WHOI, input from @lowvelocityzone @umdgeology and RaphaΓ«l Garcia @ISAE_officiel, story by @elisecutts.
eos.org/articles/fiber-opticβ¦
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Honored and excited that our research onβοΈordering deuterated icesβοΈpublished in @PNASNexus caught the attention of @sciam ! Huge shout-out to @elisecutts for the insightful explanation on 'How to Make Alien Ice'. πβοΈ #Ice #Research #PNASNexus
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