GEM 🎧

Below are some of my recent readings and recommendations.

2023

• How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
• Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C. Nussbaum
• Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods by Mariana Alessandri
• The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela Saini
• Tyranny of the Gene: Personalized Medicine and Its Threat to Public Health by James Tabery

2022

• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
• Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy by Radhika Desai
• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson

I am a scientist, songwriter and storyteller interested in data privacy, decentralized communication and free open source software (FOSS).

My work involves promoting justice, equity, diversity & inclusion (JEDI) in fields of science, technology, engineering & mathematics (STEM).

Other interests include: animals, art, culture, film, learning, literature, music, nature, philosophy, research, spirituality, travel & writing.

I have been blogging about these topics since 2001 and joined the Fediverse in 2019. Due to runaway AI, most of my posts are now private.