The framework

Bio³Science is a convergence science framework that provides an avenue to address complex, compound crises by centering them as emergent from human-environment material interrelation. The three bios—biology (life itself), biography (life experience), and biosphere (life in context)—are inseparable dimensions of what it means to be human in a changing environment. Biography is the innovative keystone of the framework, which demands that science take seriously not only diverse ways of knowing human experience, but also the potential significance of micro-level or context-based differences in how individuals relate to their environments. Biology represents the human body itself, always in intricate interrelation with the world around and within—the biosphere. The Bio³Science framework transforms scientific understanding of how changing environments shape possibilities of life (biography), enabling interdisciplinary teams to tackle complex crises by addressing nuanced patterns of human-environment interrelation at multiple scales. In demanding that scientists work to capture some of the everyday, intricate details of life that might classically be siloed as the interests of qualitative social researchers alone, Bio³Science guides scientific synthesis across multiple disciplinary interpretations.