What is it about?
This study attempts to quantify, visualize, and translate the lifecycle of SCOBY into a format that is understandable to humans - by using a light sensor to determine the growth of the SCOBY and translating that change in growth to a sound wave, we can observe the growth and death of this symbiotic colony in terms that are accessible to humans
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Why is it important?
Humans often view the world linearly but this paper explores how might this view may be different in organisms where life and death occur on much shorter timelines or who do not have a definitive lifecycle. By using sound waves and light, a platform for interaction across multiple species, we explore how we can further expand our understanding of extra-human species.
Perspectives
I really enjoy how this paper demonstrates the limited view of the progression of time for humanity and compares this to smaller organisms. This study demonstrated how we can built a translational tool to explore this difference and improve our understanding of biological systems that may not have a linear view of the progression of time.
Doctoral Student Joshua Coffie
University of Colorado Boulder
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This page is a summary of: Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding, February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3623509.3633386.
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