Carl T. Bergstrom

@carlbergstrom.com

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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: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk

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Carl T. Bergstrom

^Swainson’s. And for fun, the rainforest in question.

Containers, Vancouver Island.

how it started / how it's going

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️

Like this, you mean?

So I have always found the term “onboarding”to be extremely grating. “Onboarded,” worse yet. But it turns out that was just low key business bullshit-speak because until now it was talking about humans.

@karlbode.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social Let me draw your attention to this. Yes, it's on LinkedIn, sorry: www.linkedin.com/posts/sarahf...

Sarah Franklin on LinkedIn: Today, Lattice Makes History and Leads the Way in Responsible Employment… | 192 commentswww.linkedin.com Today, Lattice made history: We became the first company to give digital workers official employee records in Lattice. This marks a huge moment in the… | 192 comments on LinkedIn

How about a smiley kingfisher for a #TimelineCleanse? 🪶

As expected, one of the few things generative AI is genuinely good at is creating bullshit at scale. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

Birding can be hard. Also what kind of weird developmental biology thing is going on to make red feathers atop the head for two months and then say screw it, get rid of them, and make a red spot at the back of the head instead?

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Mike Doan

Oh they touch them alright....

Watching the National Park Services livecam tonight from Katmai National Park in Alaska and it suddenly dawns on me why #Project2025 wants to abolish the National Parks in addition to banning porn.

I love a brave solitary crow that makes eagles freak the fuck out. 🪶

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Here's a still photo of a different bird that was hovering and grabbing sticklebacks. 🪶 Going forward, I'll try to get better video with a tripod etc.

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Pwnallthethings

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

What can this possibly mean? Brains evolved over 500 million years ago; language probably less than 100,000. So he can't mean it literally. Bach studies cognitive architectures and has a PhD in cognitive science, so he knows the difference between brains and transformers.

Ok #photography folks, show us any 9 frames from your Instagram grid and drop your Insta handle. I'll start. @ctb_insilico

Let's try to boost this again. I don't shoot a lot of film, but I do have an Instagram account for it. @ctb_onfilm

I never want to shoot another digital portrait again. Not when film looks like this.

One more.

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cait

Guess how I know someone is not in academia.

Dancer Brenna Chumacero with Santa Barbara's State Street Ballet was doing this photoshoot with photographer Andre Yew a few hundred yards down the beach; the backlighting was amazing and my 800mm lens revealed a completely different angle on the scene.

Behind the scenes:

Must be nice. From apnews.com/article/boli...

I’m honored.

Beautiful snowy egret in Santa Barbara. 🪶

One more. 🪶

This one lacks that stunning light but I love the interplay of balance and tension here.

Elon Musk kills puppies.

OK Boomer.

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Joe Bak-Coleman

Dumb example that could never happen.