Carl T. Bergstrom

I am a biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.

I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b

I love ravens and crows.

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2024-07-18 20:58:26

This is today's GOP.
Photo: Brian Snyder from https://www.cbc.ca/news/gop-convention-dystopia-2024-1.7267374
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2024-06-22 04:32:30

With data, same.
(That's kind of the whole point of my book with Jevin West)
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2024-06-21 16:25:15

Prisoners in Florida are forced to work grueling jobs under threat of solitary confinement or worse — and they are not paid for the work they do.
Meanwhile, they are charged $50 a day and have to pay to buy toiletries and food. They leave prison hopelessly in debt with diminished job prospects.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/21/florida-unpaid-prison-labor
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2024-06-16 21:45:18

The Clark's nutcracker is a very fine corvid.
#birding #birdphotography
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2024-05-15 09:06:28

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@npub1lax…zpj9
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2024-05-15 08:55:26

Sure, the recent aurora was a mind-blowing experience and I find myself wishing it were not a once-in-a-decade occurrence.
But there's a sunset every night. Imagine that you'd never seen a sunset before....
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2024-05-12 19:33:42

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@npub1hfy…raf7 That was them.

2024-04-27 08:08:31

There is losing your mind and then there is this. I don't even know what to call it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
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2024-04-15 06:29:34

A better view of the wild solar prominences during Monday's eclipse.
(Quick hand-held shot with Nikon Z9 + Nikkor 800mm f/6.3 PF)
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2024-04-11 03:42:54

Wasted in Winooski
#photography
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2024-04-10 08:39:38

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@npub1twl…u37u my thought as well

2024-04-10 03:48:33

Next up: Tesla's Autopilot is actually just some dude in India driving your car with a Playstation controller.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

2024-04-09 06:17:09

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@npub1u5e…54h0 So red! Like a red laser.

2024-04-09 06:07:32

Total solar eclipse, April 8 2024.
Lake Champlain, Vermont.
Photo is the full frame, completely unedited, straight out of the camera. (Except for a modest reduction in image dimensions necessary to post to fediscience.)
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2024-04-04 08:27:06

Ravens, Santa Fe Ski Basin
#birding #birdphotography #corvids
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2024-04-03 23:56:22

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Somewhat more technically, fifteen years ago we wrote about how vaccination generates positive externalities (item 2 above) and thus the private market underallocates relative to socially optimal levels of vaccination.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0906078107

2024-04-03 23:55:04

Vaccination saves lives and money in two ways.
1) Directly reducing hospitalization and other health care costs in those vaccinated
2) Reducing transmission and thereby protecting even the unvaccinated.
Free COVID boosters would be an excellent public health investment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/covid-boosters-are-a-gamechanger-if-they-are-free-for-everyone?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-04-01 06:35:57

So let me get this straight. The claimed-to-be-preregistered-but-wasn't preregistration study that everyone is talking about was initiated by a guy who couldn't get shit to replicate and then concluded that it was time to test the hypothesis that sophons were fucking with human scientists to halt our progress?
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/03/27/the-feel-good-open-science-story-versus-the-preregistration-who-do-you-think-wins/

2024-03-26 01:02:41

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Bespoke.

2024-03-25 18:12:51

Notice: Someone is sending out fake job offers using my name and a misspelling of my UW email address.
If you think I offered you a job, I'm afraid it's a scam.

2024-03-25 04:30:21

Joe Bak-Coleman caught me momentarily swapping out the long birding lens for a 24-70 at Bosque del Apache last week.
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2024-03-21 06:44:44

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@npub1zt3…0v09 @npub1u0j…sz28 I do! Wonderful.

2024-03-20 07:31:54

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Tonight after a great day working with colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute, Joe Bak-Coleman went for a hike. As we headed back to the car, A huge flock of birds headed up Santa Fe Canyon; I knew their squeaky caws before I even saw them. It was a group of at least 100 pinyon jays heading to roost. I've never seen anything like it. I am so happy they are thriving here. 2/2
#birdwatching #birdphotography #corvids
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2024-03-20 07:26:44

Tonight I had one of the most glorious birding moments of my life. A decade ago I first saw pinyon jays in the Colorado mountains. Ever since I've looked for them in the mountains around Santa Fe on my frequent visits there. I can usually find them, but it takes time and I see just a few.
After massive commercial deforestation and climate-change driven destruction of the pinyon forests they rely on, their numbers are plummeting and they are being considered for the endangered species list. 1/2

2024-03-17 10:20:18

Bob Dylan recorded Red River Shore for his monumental 1997 Time Out of Mind, but in the end it did not make the record. That choice makes sense; it would have been out of place on the record.
But I’m struck by how perfectly the song would fit on Springsteen’s 1995 Ghost of Tom Joad.
I even hear Dylan mimicking Springsteen’s vocal mannerisms.
Remarkable.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hPtkQWneopA

2024-03-16 00:08:29

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@npub15qv…e3a8 I would agree if they were the ones making 40% profit a year.

2024-03-15 16:11:23

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324001298
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2024-03-11 23:45:48

Four legs good, two legs b̶a̶d̶ better.
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284888962/innovative-open-research-publisher-peerj-joins-taylor-francis/
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2024-03-09 20:59:55

Partially disenshittify google:
https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-get-more-accurate-google-search-results

2024-03-09 00:16:16

Recently I've given a number of public talks on how information tech, including social media, is impacting our ability to make collective societal decisions.
But it was this Q&A session with Rob Brooks at UNSW's Centre for Ideas that I think best captured the story I'm trying to tell. You can here the whole thing in podcast form here:
https://unswcentreforideas.com/article/art-scepticism-data-driven-world

2024-03-05 22:01:35

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@npub1m4c…6s7u @npub1rcd…0snf
Oh goodness, thank you. They were next to one another in my "following" list.

2024-03-05 21:52:28

"AI-generated content is a perversion of creation."
It's a very strong claim that @npub1rcd…0snf is making here, yet his arguments resonate with me.
A worthwhile long-form read.
https://perfors.net/blog/creation-ai/

2024-03-04 01:28:04

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@npub1jk0…9r0q
Yes, the point is that the con structure is uncommon tending toward archaic, not that it’s incorrect.
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2024-03-03 19:13:25

A long shot but let's try.
When I was photographing birds with a very long lens on the empty beach south of Barcelona's airport, this magnificent gentleman waved to me, pointed to himself, and immediately struck a pose. I fired off this frame, we shared a laugh from 50m apart, and went on our respective ways.
I'd love to get it to him. Anyone know him?
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2024-03-03 18:24:22

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@npub14gz…lm5c my point was not that it is ungrammatical, it’s that it is uncommon and therefore unlikely to be a concession to a non-English speaking, or undereducated audience.

2024-03-03 17:59:06

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A number of people have suggested that this is just simplified for non-English speakers, or those with lower levels of education.
If so, even that is very badly done. What’s going on with that “Where” construction in the final paragraph? When have you last seen “where” used in lieu of “while”?

2024-03-03 05:42:09

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You really think this is an adequate job of anything?

2024-03-03 04:09:34

Never mind at the first sentence is bullshit—they’re running because they’re the incumbents and what the hell else are they going to do—the entire Biden-Harris statement in the Washington State voter pamphlet is unfathomably badly written.
I’ve seen better in high school student council elections.
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2024-02-28 06:09:13

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It was remarkable that he was able to find the bird. There was a single individual resident along the massive cliffside shown at left, and in fact this bird only moved out onto that cliffside later in the morning—right when Carles predicted it would.
This kind of local knowledge is essential.
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2024-02-28 06:06:52

2024-02-28 06:00:51

I've long dreamed about seeing Eurasia's elusive wallcreeper. Last week, Carles Oliver with Barcelona Birding Point took me up to the Pyrenees where this dream became reality. I never got close enough for magazine-quality photos, but we had a half hour to watch this bird in a gorgeous setting.
#birdphotography #birding #birdwatching
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2024-02-23 20:54:01

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No Spotify subscription? Good on you!
Here's a youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_ePFCAtLG0

2024-02-23 20:43:14

So maybe I'm biased because my daughter is on backup vocals — but holy shit you've got to hear this.
https://open.spotify.com/track/09CCpk4tCUZsu5c4f2tjRH?si=bEBYFOayRmW85elXLe6lgw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4ZqkZmS8MDjAfAQQMGm8i5

2024-02-16 19:09:25

Devastating, but I suppose inevitable.
Meanwhile, bootlicking Tucker Carlson is all “Moscow is better than any US city…”
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/jailed-russian-opposition-leader-navalny-dead-prison-service-2024-02-16/

2024-02-16 07:23:10

Hold on.
I'm being told it's actually kind of a dck move.
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2024-02-14 06:03:33

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@npub1uvp…xwq6 Thank you -- I'll take a look.

2024-02-06 09:05:48

How did birds evolve wings?
A partial wing is of no use for flying, but natural selection can't plan ahead and allow a species to gradually evolve toward wings that are actually useful for flying.
Evolutionary biologists suspect that wings originally evolved for some purpose other than flight, and then later were coopted for flying.
Researchers have proposed a wide range of possible original purposes for wings, ranging from thermoregulation to knocking down insects to running up hills.

2024-01-24 01:44:59

Golden light and rainbow water
#birdphotography
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2024-01-23 01:29:26

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@npub1hat…egax Yes though my understanding is that this only applies to people with simpler tax situations.

2024-01-23 01:16:44

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Background: still no remedy for Intuit's success at lobbying to kill any and all tax reform measures that allow free, easy filing directly with the IRS.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

2024-01-23 01:16:07

Headline: FTC finds against Intuit.
So filing our taxes will be free now, right?
/anakin_padme.gif
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2024-01-22 04:55:18

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@npub1rqh…wkac Yes?

2024-01-22 04:53:00

It's not the apocalypse, it's just the sun rising over the Pacific Ocean from the California coast.
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2024-01-16 09:17:39

SANTA BARBARA, CA: After an intensive seventeen-year search spanning all seven continents, scientists located and captured high-resolution photographic images of the world's roundest round-borb.
#birdwatching #birdphotography
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2024-01-12 08:44:56

I was touching up some older photos tonight and I rather liked this cedar waxwing from three years ago.
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2024-01-10 04:46:00

What no one is talking about is how fucked it is that a totally mid billionaire that no one had ever heard of before he blew a gasket in public was able to accumulate a net worth equal six months’ operating budget for the world's premier university.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/william-ackman-harvard-donor/

2024-01-10 03:56:45

My daughters and I are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and totally don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income.
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2024-01-09 04:16:20

BREAKING: Apartheid tool has thoughts on how voting ought to work.
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2024-01-08 22:26:40

This is a fantastic story about how the search engine tail wags the online content dog.
It's a form of enshittification, but it's a two-sided one that involves google's algorithmic choices and web designers' responses via Campbell's law (when a metric becomes a target, people do stupid shit)
https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization

2024-01-05 01:57:45

"Incredible usage growth", "people use social media a few percent more during week with paid holidays" — it's a potato potahto sort of thing.
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2024-01-01 08:46:35

I guess we have to add adverse selection to the list of things that Yann LeCun doesn't understand.
It doesn't matter how much money the majority of authors make; it matters how much the authors that people want to read are able to make.
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2024-01-01 05:10:50

Posting this pied currawong tonight for no other reason than that he keeps making me happy.
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2023-12-30 00:15:16

US residents: If you haven't ordered your free COVID tests through USPS in the last five or six weeks, you're eligible for four more per household. It takes about a minute to fill out the online form, and USPS delivers them to your mailbox.
Testing is a great way to keep friends, family, and coworkers safe.
https://special.usps.com/testkits

2023-12-28 09:03:32

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@npub1gtk…krqv Again, are you talking about the commentary that I wrote and that Eric has linked to, or about the Saad-Roy paper that it it’s commenting on?
There seem to be an awful lot of layers of confusion here. Yes, the Covid data are from the early part of the pandemic, illustrating multiple waves, as opposed to a single wave as predicted by SIR models. ##
I doubt the author was particularly surprised because I am he and I wrote this commentary in November 2023.

2023-12-28 05:05:49

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@npub1gtk…krqv Is your confusion about our commentary, or about the Saad-Roy and Traulsen piece what we are commenting on?

2023-12-26 22:40:12

Australia's little pied cormorant is super cute just sitting there, but it's also a formidable hunter that, grebe-like, punches above its weight.
#birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #Australianbirds
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2023-12-21 01:54:30

I've read this supposedly important email from my employer a dozen times and still can't parse the first sentence, let alone understand it.
It's sort of like a neutron star: bullshit corporate neologisms get layered so thick and so self-referentially that grammar itself begins to collapse.
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2023-12-14 07:06:13

A rare moment of tenderness with Australia's most dangerous bird (really).
/because this is the internet, I want to make it abundantly clear that I adore magpies. Absolutely adore them. Rooted for bloody Collingwood as a kid I loved them so much. Imagine that.
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2023-12-12 23:20:14

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I fixed the headline.
And I honestly don't understand how any journalist could write this story without mentioning the study author's own "extreme productivity".
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2023-12-12 22:42:04

NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.
NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

2023-12-10 18:33:37

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@npub1khx…geyg Bush thick-knees aka bush stone curlew.

2023-12-10 18:29:53

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I really love these guys! #birdphotography #birds
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2023-12-10 17:51:38

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While hotly debated among ornithologists, many leading figures believe that its perpetual expression of disappointment stems from the fact that its name is anatomically incorrect. The prominent leg joints on birds are ankles, not knees, and how could these ape taxonomists be so fucking stupid?
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2023-12-10 17:50:18

Australia's bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius) truly has some the best @npub1djh…zatj energy in the business.
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2023-12-04 21:25:11

So I published a commentary in Nature (left) and my personal website has a link to it (right).
Apparently Nature licensed this picture from Reuters. I guess I wouldn't mind taking it down but first that seems like bullshit and more importantly, now Reuters (via PicRights) is trying to shake me down for $650 for past use of the image on my website.
Thoughts?
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2023-12-04 18:19:13

It gives me a measure of hope that a headset mic and black backdrop has so quickly become the universal signifier of a bullshit thought-leader with nothing of substance to say.
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2023-12-02 13:14:44

“People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?”
The first sentence of this article is like a Black Mirror episode pitch that got immediately shitcanned because nobody wants to watch heavy-handed Marxist social critique based on an utterly implausible premise.
https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/amp/

2023-12-02 07:28:57

Australian brushturkeys may be common to the point of being a nuisance, but they're stunning to look at and amazing in how they brood their eggs. Rather than sitting on them, they make incubation mounds—compost piles, essentially—the size of VW bugs and regulate the temperature therein carefully.
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2023-11-26 04:58:13

Back in Melbourne for the first time in 40 years, riding the light rail across town, and thinking “How funny — all the suburbs are named for Aussie Rules teams!”

2023-11-24 04:03:10

So the Torresian crows of Brisbane have the most stunning blue rim around the pupils of their light eyes — and I love them.
#birding #birdphotography #birdwatching #crow #crows #corvids
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2023-11-10 21:23:22

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More owl.
#birdphotography #birding
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2023-11-10 08:34:10

Barn owl
#birdphotogaphy #birding
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2023-11-08 00:22:00

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior.
I will be chairing the search. Details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336
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2023-11-06 06:00:52

1. In five days, I'm headed to Australia: Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. I can't wait. So many colleagues to meet and birds to see!
For those who are interested in such things, I'll be giving a few public talks in addition to a number of academic lectures.
The public talks will mostly focus on something I've been thinking about lately, "The Crisis of Human Collective Decision-Making in a Social Media World".
Details below.

2023-11-05 20:25:48

Menopause in chimps: An interesting challenge to the grandmother hypothesis, the idea that menopause, previously documented only in humans and a few cetacean specie, is an adaptation to by which older females help raise their daughters' offspring.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5473
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2023-11-04 08:02:07

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@npub1ddp…2tax This is going to come off as harsher than I intend, but you are thinking of science the way a ten-year-old does, rather than recognizing that science is not stars and rockets and dinosaurs and chemicals, it's a social system by which collaborative epistemic labor is organized.

2023-11-03 03:28:12

My guy. If science has problems — and I acknowledge that it does — I guarantee that you aren't going to find the solution in the collected works of Ayn Rand.

2023-11-02 06:12:19

PNAS doing the Lord's work.
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2023-10-30 07:00:24

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A little bit of video, slowed down 4x so you can see his rapidfire movements.
#birdvideo #birding #birdwatching
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2023-10-30 06:34:51

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The hardest part was staying far enough way to focus.
At one point it ran up within 2 feet of me and I was laughing so hard. I can't tell you how charismatic and delightful this little fellow was.
#birding #birdphotography
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2023-10-30 06:34:03

Today I had the opportunity to see a visitor far from home, a tiny snow bunting from the arctic, well out of range in Seattle.
It was completely unafraid of people; I wonder if it had even seen humans before.
An absolutely charming bird full of life and character. I fell in love at once.
#birding #birdphotography
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2023-10-27 00:01:03

Google Scholar is a flaming piece of shit. Why do we use it for scholarly evaluation?
Here, it misattributes 4873 citations — a decent count for entire research career — from Keeling and Rohani's landmark book, giving them instead to the authors who wrote a book review of the book.
Yet, there's no correction or appeal process.
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2023-10-23 01:32:40

Must suck to realize that there are some forms of epistemic grounding that you and your pals can't simply purchase and torch to the ground.
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2023-10-21 07:30:57

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No luck.
It's ok. Who wants a half-chewed flatfish anyway?
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2023-10-21 07:30:12

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I know, let's try an affiliative call: a rattle-knock. Maybe the gull will feed me?
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2023-10-21 07:29:41

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Nope — detected!
Jump back!
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2023-10-21 07:29:09

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Perhaps with sufficient stealth, one could snatch the fish.
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2023-10-21 07:28:41

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In fact, crow was intensely curious.
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2023-10-21 07:26:56

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Its struggle did not go unnoticed.
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2023-10-21 07:26:24

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But it was...er...floundering in its efforts to swallow it.
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