Hello! I'm Max, now minted with Master's in Ecological Economics. Presently fixing things, including spacetime. Many years back I studied lunar dust, and by contact with the first engineers of the kind became charged. Since then, I've hopped through brains, computational and encephalogramic with a reading on physics that would hopefully comfort dear Planck. I build gardens in my spare time, and hope you do too, or at least paint good trouble art. - CV -

Publications

• Weinhold, M., A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements or ‘In pursuit of decentralization: theoretical, biological, and more-than-human considerations for institutional design’. Hosted at Preprints.org

• Millwater, M., Bragg, C., Bishop, D., Adeck, A., Karutury, RC., Weinhold, M., Rao P., Zhang, R., Sheikhbahaei, S.. “Iron dysregulation in mice engineered with a mutation associated with stuttering.” BioRxiv.org 2025

• Millwater, M., Weinholdm M., Bragg, C., Kaur, H., Zhang, R., Sheikhbahaei, S.. “Iron dysregulation in mice engineered with a mutation associated with stuttering.” BioRxiv.org 2025

• Weinhold, M., Kaur, H., SheikhBahaei, S. “Voluntary motor defects in Mice with human GNPTAB stuttering mutations: Hyperactivity, Initiations, and Interruptions.” Society for Neuroscience, Nov. 2022.

• Bishop, M., Weinhold, M., Turk, A., Adeck, A., SheikhBahaei, S. “An open source tool for automated analysis of breathing behaviors in common marmosets and rodents.” eLife, Jan. 2022. Doi: 10.7554/eLife.71647

• Weinhold, M. “Don’t Ban Plastic — Rethink How It’s Designed and Make It Part of Our Ecosystem.” Plastics Today, Feb. 2023. Article

• Weinhold, M., Levine, J. “Increased concentrations of Lunar dust associated with a denser Lunar atmosphere resulting from heightened human presence and activity on the Moon.” NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute, Feb. 2020: Abstract

Research Interests

I’m passionate about nature within socio-technological institutions. Innovation must be for enhancing collective, ecosystem welfare, inclusive of humans and other. This flow is bidirectional, as it includes lessons from nature, such as biotechnology and organizational principles, alongside utilizing human ingenuity and constructions, such as blockchain or artificial intelligence. Living with and living as nature are useful frameworks in this regard. Plus, the selfish, or self, reason.

I’m also fascinated by information flow in complex systems: be it in the biosphere, neural circuits, internet connectivity, and social networks. Information is a universality that transcends the details of any particular system, and thus allows a richer depth of understanding across fields. As filler text, this paragraph contains meaning when held between transmitter and receiver. Now, your page may immediately make my words into a language I do not speak, and better than I.

As a global citizen and humanitarian, I work to promote the welfare of people and societies, local and global, whenever I can. Realistcally, it looks like a friendly face at a watch shop. Acknowledge a polycrisis to grow. As anyone young at heart I’m passionate about developing breakthrough solutions, ideas, and policy to help us tackle the problems of today and the challenges of tomorrow.

Personal Projects

Only the beginnings of a closed-loop algae-cultivation bioreactor for carbon sequestration and biofuel development was created, though turtle poop was filtered and transduced to algae, made for centrifuge.

Otherwise, I’ve developed a tinker space, a drop below the Planck interval; some of these ideas may eventually get published.

before we question spacetime