Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
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Carl T. Bergstrom
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For those of you who had the Frontiers family of journals as the first quasi-reputable* journals to be utter enshittified by AI editorial systems, you're today's lucky winner.
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*this has been debatable since their inception, but they somehow have always attracted good authors.
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Best Birding App for Android: 2025 Ultimate Guide
Image of a purple finch with some vapid AI copy about birding.
These fuckers came for fountain pens with SEO-heavy AI slop.
Now they're coming for birds, again with AI slop attributed to an author who doesn't exist? This is personal.