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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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.

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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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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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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

When Indigenous communities in the Amazon went into voluntary isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were protecting themselves from a devastating outbreak. But that isolation revealed a deeper structural vulnerability: the lack of reliable, decentralized energy in many remote territories.

Self-Imposed Isolation of Indigenous Communities Due to COVID-19 Reinforces the Need for Clean Off-Grid Energy Sources - The InterPlex

Strengthening the socio-ecological systems of Indigenous communities is of high priority for achieving global “sustainable development” and environmental goals.  For Indigenous people to…

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In this InterDialogue excerpt, Brazilian Earth system scientist Carlos Nobre discusses the future of energy systems in the Amazon, arguing that sustainable infrastructure must prioritize planetary-scale renewable solutions rather than extractive regional models for development in the region.

In the global race toward sustainable energy, lithium is widely framed as the essential material for batteries. But as Argentine physical chemist Horacio Corti argues in a research article translated, updated, and republished to The InterPlex, lithium’s true strategic value extends beyond batteries.

Beyond Batteries: The Added Value of Lithium and its Isotopes for Nuclear Technologies - The InterPlex

In a complex and rapidly evolving technological, socio-economic and geopolitical landscape that is focused on a global “sustainable energy transition,”

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This month at The InterPlex, we'll be featuring scientifically and interculturally informed perspectives on energy, technology, and innovation: buff.ly/1yrzsuf

Energy, Technology and Innovation - The InterPlex

Energy is perhaps the most fundamental, dynamic and mystifying entity in our universe. Through its many transformations and manifestations, it lies at the heart of – and in reality is – everything…

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In this InterDialogue excerpt, Argentine physical chemist Horacio Corti discusses Argentina’s nearly completed RA-10, a multipurpose nuclear reactor being built at the Ezeiza Atomic Center in Buenos Aires. The RA-10 is both a public health investment and a major scientific milestone.

In this article, Daniel Henryk Rasolt traces the story of magnesium from its cosmic origins in exploding stars down to planet Earth, where it forms an integral part of our planet’s geology and its complex web of life. Learn more in the full article: buff.ly/tKdHckb

Magnesium: Connecting Human and Planetary Health to the Stars - The InterPlex

To illustrate this interconnectedness between our existence and health, the natural world here on earth, and the vast universe, let us focus in this article

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In this InterDialogue excerpt, recorded in 2022 amid the COVID-19 pandemic and ecological destruction in the Amazon, Brazilian atmospheric physicist Paulo Artaxo reflects on how interdisciplinary dialogue helps scientists communicate about interconnected issues like climate change and public health.

In this InterDialogue excerpt, Spanish physicist and complex systems scientist @gomezgardenes.bsky.social explores how epidemics are not just biological events, but deeply social phenomena. “In an epidemic, the forecast alters the trajectory because we are part of the epidemic,” says Gómez-Gardeñes.

In this article, written at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic amid widespread uncertainty and anti-scientific sentiment, Daniel Henryk Rasolt explores the role of Indigenous land stewardship in mitigating climate change and preventing future pandemics through complex socio-ecological systems.

Guardians of the Forest: Can Securing Indigenous Land Rights Help Combat Climate Change and Prevent the Next Pandemic? - The InterPlex

Policies for further securing Indigenous land rights and amplifying their territories are also becoming recognized as some of the most cost-effective means of

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“Criticality is a very broad theory, but there is another perspective on complex systems that I promote based on morphology,” explains Peruvian neuroscientist and complex systems scientist Enver Oruro, discussing his research at the intersection of both fields.