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1/ A network of neurons, cut off from part of its own wiring, often finds its way back to full working order on its own. In this InterDialogue clip, Spanish neurophysicist Jordi Soriano discusses his research on neuronal cultures—networks of neurons grown in a dish.
September 10, 2026 at 1:03 PM
1/ A network of neurons, cut off from part of its own wiring, often finds its way back to full working order on its own. In this InterDialogue clip, Spanish neurophysicist Jordi Soriano discusses his research on neuronal cultures—networks of neurons grown in a dish.
1/ It's been an eventful summer for The InterPlex since returning to our Boston headquarters in early June: conferences, collaborative meetings, networking events, grant proposals, content creation, and work with our pilot InterGroup on mangroves and wetlands.
September 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
1/ It's been an eventful summer for The InterPlex since returning to our Boston headquarters in early June: conferences, collaborative meetings, networking events, grant proposals, content creation, and work with our pilot InterGroup on mangroves and wetlands.
1/ Colombia has been an enthusiastic adopter of the global Rights of Nature movement, from the Atrato River's landmark grant of legal personhood in 2017 to the Colombian Amazon's recognition as a rights-bearing entity in 2018, writes Daniel Henryk Rasolt: buff.ly/hJ6ckz4
Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature - The InterPlex
Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories,…
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August 27, 2026 at 12:01 PM
1/ Colombia has been an enthusiastic adopter of the global Rights of Nature movement, from the Atrato River's landmark grant of legal personhood in 2017 to the Colombian Amazon's recognition as a rights-bearing entity in 2018, writes Daniel Henryk Rasolt: buff.ly/hJ6ckz4
1/ A single movement rarely reshapes the system it's up against. Real change comes from linking local action into wider networks. In this InterDialogue excerpt, Indian environmentalist Ashish Kothari traces nearly five decades of building that kind of network.
August 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
1/ A single movement rarely reshapes the system it's up against. Real change comes from linking local action into wider networks. In this InterDialogue excerpt, Indian environmentalist Ashish Kothari traces nearly five decades of building that kind of network.
1/ "Bioeconomy" has become a buzzword across the Amazon, its meaning stretching to cover everything from biotech investment to grassroots forest economies. In this InterDialogue clip, Mariana Gómez Soto explains why she frames her work around "socio-bioeconomy."
August 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
1/ "Bioeconomy" has become a buzzword across the Amazon, its meaning stretching to cover everything from biotech investment to grassroots forest economies. In this InterDialogue clip, Mariana Gómez Soto explains why she frames her work around "socio-bioeconomy."
For Afro-Colombian communities on Colombia’s Pacific coast, protecting biodiversity and cultural heritage are not separate projects but the same, argues American anthropologist Rowan Glass in a new article for The InterPlex: buff.ly/WdhddV4
Mangrove Commons: Biocultural Heritage in the Afro-Colombian Pacific - The InterPlex
For Afro-Pacific communities, biodiversity and cultural heritage are not separate concerns—protecting one means protecting the other. Their interrelation makes a compelling case for biocultural…
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August 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
For Afro-Colombian communities on Colombia’s Pacific coast, protecting biodiversity and cultural heritage are not separate projects but the same, argues American anthropologist Rowan Glass in a new article for The InterPlex: buff.ly/WdhddV4
1/ Few folklorists use quantitative methods, but that doesn't put their findings outside the realm of empirical inquiry. In a new guest InterDialogue, American folklorist K. Brandon Barker argues that ethnographic research can reach places that quantitative science alone cannot.
July 29, 2026 at 7:46 PM
1/ Few folklorists use quantitative methods, but that doesn't put their findings outside the realm of empirical inquiry. In a new guest InterDialogue, American folklorist K. Brandon Barker argues that ethnographic research can reach places that quantitative science alone cannot.
1/ @tifr.res.in, India's national center for STEM education, was born from a language problem. Now a new variable is entering classrooms: AI trained overwhelmingly on Western data. Physicist Arnab Bhattacharya discusses what that means for science education in this new InterDialogue.
July 24, 2026 at 12:01 AM
1/ @tifr.res.in, India's national center for STEM education, was born from a language problem. Now a new variable is entering classrooms: AI trained overwhelmingly on Western data. Physicist Arnab Bhattacharya discusses what that means for science education in this new InterDialogue.
1/ While studying billion-year-old stromatolites in southern India's Cuddapah Basin, Indian geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt found herself drawing on the Earth's deep geological history to address contemporary questions. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/lpqMEpw
Written in Rocks: A Geologist’s Journey into Deep Time - The InterPlex
Every rock carries a fragment of Earth’s memory. Collectively, these fragments preserve an extraordinary geological record spanning more than 4.5 billion
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July 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM
1/ While studying billion-year-old stromatolites in southern India's Cuddapah Basin, Indian geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt found herself drawing on the Earth's deep geological history to address contemporary questions. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/lpqMEpw
1/ Every rock, according to geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt, carries a fragment of Earth’s memory. In a new article for The InterPlex, Sanwal draws on decades fieldwork across South Asia to trace 4.54 billion years of planetary history. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/lpqMEpw
Written in Rocks: A Geologist’s Journey into Deep Time - The InterPlex
Every rock carries a fragment of Earth’s memory. Collectively, these fragments preserve an extraordinary geological record spanning more than 4.5 billion
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July 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
1/ Every rock, according to geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt, carries a fragment of Earth’s memory. In a new article for The InterPlex, Sanwal draws on decades fieldwork across South Asia to trace 4.54 billion years of planetary history. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/lpqMEpw
1/ Cities are among the most complex systems humans have ever created. Understanding how millions of individual decisions give rise to collective patterns requires bringing together physics, network science, urban planning, and the social sciences.
July 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
1/ Cities are among the most complex systems humans have ever created. Understanding how millions of individual decisions give rise to collective patterns requires bringing together physics, network science, urban planning, and the social sciences.
1/ What do neuroscience, epidemiology, language, ecology, biology, economics, social and urban networks, particle physics, and cosmology have in common? According to a growing diverse community of experts and institutions featured (and soon to be featured) by The InterPlex...
June 25, 2026 at 3:01 PM
1/ What do neuroscience, epidemiology, language, ecology, biology, economics, social and urban networks, particle physics, and cosmology have in common? According to a growing diverse community of experts and institutions featured (and soon to be featured) by The InterPlex...
1/ “We are living a very interesting moment because we have very good data in sports,” says Spanish physicist and complexity scientist Javier Buldú (@JmBuldu). In this clip from our recent InterDialogue, Buldú explains how football has become a new frontier in complexity science.
June 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
1/ “We are living a very interesting moment because we have very good data in sports,” says Spanish physicist and complexity scientist Javier Buldú (@JmBuldu). In this clip from our recent InterDialogue, Buldú explains how football has become a new frontier in complexity science.
In May and June, The InterPlex was invited to attend and deliver talks at a series of fascinating, collaborative, and impactful conferences and institutional visits in Spain, Italy, and Germany.
June 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
In May and June, The InterPlex was invited to attend and deliver talks at a series of fascinating, collaborative, and impactful conferences and institutional visits in Spain, Italy, and Germany.
1/ "We try to embrace the full spectrum,” says Italian physicist and complexity scientist @ccattuto.bsky.social. In this new InterDialogue, Cattuto reflects on the evolution of computational social science and the interdisciplinary vision guiding his work as Scientific Director of @isi.it.
June 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
1/ "We try to embrace the full spectrum,” says Italian physicist and complexity scientist @ccattuto.bsky.social. In this new InterDialogue, Cattuto reflects on the evolution of computational social science and the interdisciplinary vision guiding his work as Scientific Director of @isi.it.
1/ In this InterDialogue excerpt, Indian geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt explores geology as a form of “Big History,” tracing the 4.6-billion-year evolution of Earth through rocks, fossils, lake cores, and cave formations. Full InterDialogue: buff.ly/OrR7ggA
May 25, 2026 at 8:01 AM
1/ In this InterDialogue excerpt, Indian geologist Jaishri Sanwal Bhatt explores geology as a form of “Big History,” tracing the 4.6-billion-year evolution of Earth through rocks, fossils, lake cores, and cave formations. Full InterDialogue: buff.ly/OrR7ggA
In an article originally written for Unbounded World in 2019 and republished to The InterPlex, Daniel Henryk Rasolt reports on the disappearance of Colombia’s last tropical glaciers, warning that the country’s highest icefields “will most likely disappear in the coming decades.”
May 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM
In an article originally written for Unbounded World in 2019 and republished to The InterPlex, Daniel Henryk Rasolt reports on the disappearance of Colombia’s last tropical glaciers, warning that the country’s highest icefields “will most likely disappear in the coming decades.”
1/ Last week The InterPlex was present at the fascinating, wide-ranging, collaborative and multi-disciplinary @complenet.bsky.social conference on complex networks at the Faculty of Sciences, @unizar.es, in beautiful Zaragoza, Spain.
May 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
1/ Last week The InterPlex was present at the fascinating, wide-ranging, collaborative and multi-disciplinary @complenet.bsky.social conference on complex networks at the Faculty of Sciences, @unizar.es, in beautiful Zaragoza, Spain.
1/ Indian physicist Sunil Mukhi traces his decades-long involvement in academic ethics to a striking case: a university vice chancellor plagiarizing entire string theory papers from other physicists. This case led to the realization that academic misconduct is poorly understood.
April 30, 2026 at 3:02 AM
1/ Indian physicist Sunil Mukhi traces his decades-long involvement in academic ethics to a striking case: a university vice chancellor plagiarizing entire string theory papers from other physicists. This case led to the realization that academic misconduct is poorly understood.
1/ As part of @theinterplex.bsky.social's outreach strategy for fostering a dynamic, global, interdisciplinary, and intercultural collaborative community, our founder, Daniel Henryk Rasolt, traveled through India and Nepal collaborating with a wide range of researchers and science communicators.
April 23, 2026 at 2:00 AM
1/ As part of @theinterplex.bsky.social's outreach strategy for fostering a dynamic, global, interdisciplinary, and intercultural collaborative community, our founder, Daniel Henryk Rasolt, traveled through India and Nepal collaborating with a wide range of researchers and science communicators.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, Brazilian physicist Luiz Davidovich explains how quantum computing research in Brazil reflects a broader global imbalance: while there are active efforts in software and theory, the hardware remains prohibitively expensive and technically demanding.
April 14, 2026 at 3:07 AM
In this InterDialogue excerpt, Brazilian physicist Luiz Davidovich explains how quantum computing research in Brazil reflects a broader global imbalance: while there are active efforts in software and theory, the hardware remains prohibitively expensive and technically demanding.
In an article for The InterPlex, Colombian land use and remote sensing scientist Paulo Murillo explains that “advanced algorithms can now classify satellite imagery much better than previous algorithms,” enabling a dramatic leap in accuracy and scale. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/J7iIiAb
The Social-Life of the Pixel in Land System Science - The InterPlex
Earth Observation technologies are becoming increasingly valuable for understanding our changing world. They are also critical for formulating policies to
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April 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
In an article for The InterPlex, Colombian land use and remote sensing scientist Paulo Murillo explains that “advanced algorithms can now classify satellite imagery much better than previous algorithms,” enabling a dramatic leap in accuracy and scale. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/J7iIiAb
In this InterDialogue excerpt, anthropologist and environmentalist Mariana Gómez Soto discusses scaling socio-bioeconomies in the Amazon, as proposed in the Science Panel for the Amazon’s 2025 Assessment Report, in which she was the lead author of the “Connectivity for socio-bioeconomies” chapter.
April 1, 2026 at 5:16 PM
In this InterDialogue excerpt, anthropologist and environmentalist Mariana Gómez Soto discusses scaling socio-bioeconomies in the Amazon, as proposed in the Science Panel for the Amazon’s 2025 Assessment Report, in which she was the lead author of the “Connectivity for socio-bioeconomies” chapter.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, electrical engineer Omar Prias discusses Colombia’s energy transition policy, decentralized systems, and community models. While policymakers increasingly recognize “energy communities” as important to the energy sector, implementation is uneven.
March 27, 2026 at 10:24 PM
In this InterDialogue excerpt, electrical engineer Omar Prias discusses Colombia’s energy transition policy, decentralized systems, and community models. While policymakers increasingly recognize “energy communities” as important to the energy sector, implementation is uneven.
In this InterDialogue excerpt, Colombian electrical engineer, professor, and policy consultant Omar Prias discusses energy as the invisible infrastructure shaping everything from daily life to industrial output. Colombia is an energy-rich country with extraordinary geographic advantages.
March 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
In this InterDialogue excerpt, Colombian electrical engineer, professor, and policy consultant Omar Prias discusses energy as the invisible infrastructure shaping everything from daily life to industrial output. Colombia is an energy-rich country with extraordinary geographic advantages.