As a cognitive scientist I write about how our interactive relationships with each other and the land dynamically tune what we perceive, attend to, and remember, and investigate how such practices of โparticipatory sensemakingโ can foster healing.
I am a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia, an amateur apple rancher in the BC mountains, and a former arts writer and contemporary dance choreographer.
a lovechild of natalie hanna's forever w.i.p. coming-soon radio show, sideways spirals, on CiTR101.9fm and my research work with rebecca todd's motivated cognition lab.
A newsletter featuring stories by "Jedi" ecologist John Todd describing his life and work devoted to healing the earth through ecological design.
An intermittent letter about glaciers, art, science, art-science, and the scientific research process.