Many years back I studied lunar dust, and by contact with the first engineers of the kind became charged.
Since then, I've tried to understand an ethical neuroscience and some else. I build gardens in my spare time, and hope you do too; or at least paint good trouble art, or journal or write or play football or keep us and each other safe and alive and kind. If you do none of these, I was always a good listener, and actually first found a degree in psychology.
I study Ecological Economics, and am presently re-drafting my dissertation on how actors respond in opportune institutions, with a focus on including more-than-human actors. I was formerly a behavioral, computational neuroscientist at the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders, Stroke where I modeled neural pathways and representations in speech-motor disorders or more kindly: unkindly patterned patterns and interjecting puncta. At the moment I'm particularly interested in fractal ecosystem restoration, why does life always rely on water, can't forget about aquatic mycelia, and as always carbon in soils.
Can we build an ethical more-than-human DAO? At least an assemblage, I bet. - 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
自然我可以想一想，计划你供应链，请把三个月多给我。
Supply chains exist as a sequence of nodes in a database. From a distal node to you. In each node we choose one or multiple parties to trade with. Our relationship with those parties depends on prevailing economic factors, or familiarty and locallity. Lots of ways to gunk crasse a chain!
As a global citizen and humanitarian, I work to promote the welfare of people and societies, local and global, whenever I can. Realistically, it looks like a friendly face at a watch shop or just some guy. The polycrisis is more fun when we’re collaborating.
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.
pic featuring some other algae project
My diss. was published under another name at: slime molds and coconut trees
Join me writing games in a tinker space, a drop below h. Planck.