How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World (Flyer)

Gaia Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. She is particularly interested in the interaction between human systems and Earth’s planetary systems, and has traveled the world extensively to research it. Her work has appeared in many media outlets, including the BBC, The Guardian, New Scientist, Australian Geographic, Science. She has created science documentaries for radio and television, and gives talks around the world. Previously, she held senior editorial positions at the science journal Nature, Nature Climate Change, and New Scientist magazine. Her latest book, Nomad Century, is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where – and how – we live. It is a book of solutions and also a rousing call to arms, describing how we can plan for and manage the now unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. For more information visit: wanderinggaia.co

The past, present, and future of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS)

The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) is a community-driven standard for the organization of data and metadata from a growing range of neuroscience modalities. This paper is meant as a history of how the standard has developed and grown over time. We outline the principles behind the project, the mechanisms by which it has been extended, and some of the challenges being addressed as it evolves. We also discuss the lessons learned through the project, with the aim of enabling researchers in other domains to learn from the success of BIDS

Artists explore new ways of knowing in a time of information overload

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Artists explore new ways of knowing in a time of information overload

You are viewing an article about Planet Texas 2050 from June 2020.Office of the VP for Researc

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World (Lecture)

Gaia Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. She is particularly interested in the interaction between human systems and Earth’s planetary systems, and has traveled the world extensively to research it. Her work has appeared in many media outlets, including the BBC, The Guardian, New Scientist, Australian Geographic, Science. She has created science documentaries for radio and television, and gives talks around the world. Previously, she held senior editorial positions at the science journal Nature, Nature Climate Change, and New Scientist magazine. Her latest book, Nomad Century, is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where – and how – we live. It is a book of solutions and also a rousing call to arms, describing how we can plan for and manage the now unavoidable climate migration while we restore the planet to a fully habitable state. For more information visit: wanderinggaia.co

Addressing global environmental challenges to mental health using population neuroscience: A review

Importance Climate change, pollution, urbanization, socioeconomic inequality, and psychosocial effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused massive changes in environmental conditions that affect brain health during the life span, both on a population level as well as on the level of the individual. How these environmental factors influence the brain, behavior, and mental illness is not well known. Observations A research strategy enabling population neuroscience to contribute to identify brain mechanisms underlying environment-related mental illness by leveraging innovative enrichment tools for data federation, geospatial observation, climate and pollution measures, digital health, and novel data integration techniques is described. This strategy can inform innovative treatments that target causal cognitive and molecular mechanisms of mental illness related to the environment. An example is presented of the environMENTAL Project that is leveraging federated cohort data of over 1.5 million European citizens and patients enriched with deep phenotyping data from large-scale behavioral neuroimaging cohorts to identify brain mechanisms related to environmental adversity underlying symptoms of depression, anxiety, stress, and substance misuse. Conclusions and Relevance This research will lead to the development of objective biomarkers and evidence-based interventions that will significantly improve outcomes of environment-related mental illness