Carl T. Bergstrom

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

What kind of numerals do you use when you make up fake statistics about vaccine harms, you shitweasel?

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Must be nice living in Washington state, they said. Amidst all this [gesturing around], we envy you your liberal oasis, they said.

Let me propose that they rebrand as the "Journal of Applied Agnotology".

A bit earlier, but I'm old enough to remember when Ann Arbor got its first Mexican restaurant.

Sure but that's also what the over-leveraged oligarchs would want you to think. Someone has to go down with the ship.

Sandhill cranes have returned to the Minnesota farm field where my father was born. His mother remembered them from her childhood, but he never saw them until a decade or two or so back.

"AI can kind of make things up, but Google Search having like, actual, real sources, makes sure that I'm not learning the wrong thing." Wild to see the company that replaced reliable search with Gemini hallucinations trying to walk it back now.

Do you people have any idea how many times I have tried to spread dog food on my toast?

talk about tech debt...

Crows will pwn your ass on PS5.

It's Philip K. Dick's world; we just have the misfortune to live in it.

Breaking news: students given laptops in school watch youtube.

This week, NIH advisors rebuked RFK for harming #NIH and US science. Sheryl Gay Stolberg reported it. Then RFK posted calling her sources anonymous or corrupt. I'll say this hoping it does good: I'm an NIH scientist, I'm not anonymous, and RFK Jr is destroying NIH. More in attachment:

WTAF!?! Watch the head. It stays looking forward.

Jeremiah Harris Photography did a wonderful job of photographing the event. jeremiahharrisphotography.com Pictures used by permission of the ARL.

A bit of bird fun. 🪶

Kia ora, my friends in Aotearoa! This piece is my love letter to the avifauna of Aotearoa and my expression of gratitude all of you whose efforts have preserved so many species that might otherwise have been lost. I hope you enjoy.

“The culmination of my life’s work may have been targeted by an AI-assisted censorship tool & terminated by a politically-motivated AI hallucination” If you care in any way about science, you need to read this thread from my friend Kelton Minor.

Turns out the “censorship industrial complex” was less a criticism than an aspiration

The first? Sylvester McMonkey McBean monetized that shit before they were born.

Reminds me of getting carded (in my 40s!!) at one of Seattle's fake-speakeasies-for-wankers and getting a blank stare when asking the bartender if that didn't sort of break the spell.