'unable to import anything in jupyter notebook vscode

Im working on a jupyter notebook in VScode and am unable to use any imports. The first cell contains

import tensorflow as tf

and the 2nd cell contains

tf.__version__

and i get the following error.

NameError Traceback (most recent call last) /var/folders/dx/qz5pd1k146x9rm5zh1n434mm0000gn/T/ipykernel_86923/985137052.py in ----> 1 tf.version

NameError: name 'tf' is not defined

Tensorflow shows up on pip list in my current environment (the base anaconda environment) and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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