Carl T. Bergstrom
Professor of Biology @UW. I use math & evolutionary theory to study information flow in biology & society, including how science works. I love corvids.
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Kids as young as 4 are mining mica in a lawless part of Africa
How mica mined by kids in Madagascar ends up in products used by millions of Americans.
Birdstrips on Instagram: “Bird no. 778. A day off?! For me?! . This might just be a self-employment thing, but I work almost all the time. . Why? I think it's…”
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'Meth. We're On It.': South Dakota spends $449K on new anti-meth ad campaign
The state paid a Minnesota ad agency just short of $449,000 for the campaign this fall.
Hate can't be hacked
A hackathon cannot solve hatred. Llamas won’t fix our mental health crisis. An AR plaque does not give voice to Chanel Miller. And countless apologetic emails are no substitute for institutional change. Until the administration steps up to the...
Two university chemistry professors arrested for allegedly making meth
A pair of chemistry professors at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, were arrested...
Carl T. Bergstrom
What use is academic freedom if you can't even....
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Early coauthorship with top scientists predicts success in academic careers
By examining publication records of scientists from four disciplines, the authors show that coauthoring a paper with a top-cited scientist early in one's career predicts lasting increases in career success, especially for researchers affiliated with...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
For those of you who think @evopsychgoogle is just a troll account: a detailed criticism of the atrocious 2012
Rushton and Templer paper in _Personality and Individual Differences_
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More South Korean academics caught naming kids as co-authors
The practice was probably used to improve the children’s chances of securing a university place.
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Reading: Melinda Baldwin's paper on the recent emergence of peer review as a supposed guarantor of scientific legitimacy.
A gripping read, the paper explains how 1975 attacks on the NSF by fiscal conservatives in congress shaped our current views.
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It’s okay to lose confidence in your previous research
And to be open about about it.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
When one has finished a substantial paper there is commonly a mood in which it seems that there is really nothing in it. Do not worry, later on you will be thinking "At least I could do something good then."
- J. E. Littlewood
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The Urban Nature Enthusiast
Crow paparazza, celebrating nature in an urban setting
The Interface Theory of Perception: The Future of the Science of the Mind?
If you believe in evolution, you must then believe that the world we perceive is not the world we actually inhabit. Not even close. The objects we see or hear or touch do not exist independently of…
#interfacetheory: True enough
In 1625, the astronomer Christopher Scheiner confirmed Johann Kepler’s hunch that images projected to the retina through the crystalline lens of the eye, much like images passed through telescope l…
Science must move with the times
Research cannot fulfil its social contract and reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future, argues Philip Ball in the last essay of a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today’s science system, to mark Nature’s...
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Science, the big picture.
Take a few minutes to read Philip Ball's thoughts on science, society, and humanity.
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The also wren
In the South Island’s remote subalpine regions, a highly terrestrial songbird—one of two surviving species of New Zealand wren—has hopped, chirped and flown in the face of extinction. There are four of us in the Murchison Mountains, walking slowly...
Abraham Alexander - "America" - KXT Live Sessions
His ongoing spiritual and musical journey has yielded a dynamic debut EP, and KXT was honored to welcome Fort Worth artist Abraham Alexander into the studio ...