Biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in science and society.
I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
I love ravens and crows.
he/him
@cfiesler @rysiek @ct_bergstrom BTW here is a list
#Academics on Mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Here are a couple of places to start. This is basically what I was talking about:
To learn more about what I was saying, you can look at
for data reasoning and at
https://sciedandmisinfo.stanford.edu/about-report
for teaching the social nature of science.
Here are the slides from the talk: https://www.slideshare.net/Carl_Bergstrom/transforming-science-education-in-an-age-of-misinformation
Of course it's hard to get the whole story from the slide deck alone, but at least there are pretty pictures.
Keynote at theNorthwest Commission on Colleges and Universities annual meeting. I argue that if we want to address science misinformation on social media and b…
@NotNowOrLater2 I don't think there are notes of this meeting, but there are many good resources that cover data literacy. I'm not going to remotely pretend these are the best out there, but we have videos from the initial pilot version of our course in 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS
Last week—no, that was yesterday!!—@[email protected] posted an excellent thread about Musk's collective, cybernetic super-intelligence fantasy and why Twitter doesn't work like that.
Today he's back with a second must-read thread about complexity and the Twitter ecosystem.
Day 2 of complexity science for @[email protected]. Today's topic:
Stability, Resistance, and Robustness: will twitter collapse?
Buckle up, we're going on another 🧵 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jbakcoleman/status/1588653556717867011
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists. Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
(mastodon only)
I was delighted to speak at the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities annual meeting this morning.
I talked about how science education has to adapt to a world of social media misinformation, and stressed two core topics: data literacy (as taught via my Calling Bullshit course, book etc), and the social nature of science.
Right now we teach what science found, but we don't teach how it works well enough for people to understand when and why it can be trusted.
kcarruthers