Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Ankylosaur enthusiast. Modeler of cultural evolution and related topics. Anti-fascist. Professor at UC Merced, external prof at the Santa Fe Institute and CSH-Vienna.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Paul Smaldino
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I last published in a Frontiers journal in 2012, when I thought their publishing model was bad. It's SO much worse now, but also such a stark consequences of the pathology of publications-as-currency plaguing academia.
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology 🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
There’s nothing more awe-inspiring than watching a carpenter bee eat a woodpecker.
There’s nothing more awe-inspiring than watching a carpenter bee eat a woodpecker.
Of course, science is a reflection of the larger society its embedded in. That society is pretty sick right now. But in science as in the rest of life, good people are doing good work. Let's maybe try to incentivize the good, prosocial behaviors and not the bad, selfish ones, shall we?
Science only works when communities of real people talk to each other and collectively hash out what matters to them. Automation and metricification are lean heavily on maximizing a few quantitative criteria, which, as we see over and over again, keep making things worse.
