radical science practice

What does radical science practice look like? What would scientists do and learn about? How would they do research and communicate their ideas? regeneration.org is a great resource!!!!!!

List of science fields off the top of my head: climate stabilization, many sustainable fields like materials science, architecture, ethical farming, regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, mass medicine, environmental protection, medical imaging technology, astrophysics, biocompatible robotics, rare disease research, the study of the human mind...

I think to build the world we (radicals) want, we need to BE the world we want. That means actually practicing radical science in our lives. To me that means I need to do research, have a good question and find the answer, then document it one day so people don't forget. I'll tease some ideas now for posterity-- medical imaging is first for me of course, if you know me you know that's a big passion of mine. Making MRI machines cheaper and safer & doing cool ass microscopy stuff... it's photography on steroids! We've made machines that can look inside the body and tell us what's wrong, I think that's fundamentally dope and want to figure out how to do more. I've very briefly looked into Airy beams and want to explore non-linear light through art, and I know it has tons of potential for medical applications too. I love so much Indigenous science research going on right now like Josiah Hester’s research. Energy management is a field I'd like to explore more, materials science... and I have a faith, perhaps one that can be viewed as more religious than scientific, in something there’s yet to be any scientific evidence for: the other powers of the atom.

A "real" radical science practice is hard because robust science needs an abundance of resources and those resources are currently funneled to science for war. I wish there was a center dedicated to this science practice that we could go to and do cool things with, but I think we're so at the beginning we need to create the first center. And truly, a real radical science practice involves the creation & connection of multiple institutions (hate that word) rather than just one. But I'm trying to learn where my place is and I think we can be ancestors of a better world. It has to start somewhere.