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Account age
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
272
Avg engagement / post
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
Apr 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: Just received this from NSF. Water scarcity threatens energy pr · 626 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
14.3 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 7 text · 5 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
56×
Follows 2.6K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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Why indeed?
Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.
A question: does anyone know about communities or groups for scientists who are committed to writing without the use of LLMs / genAI?
Yes, I know about avoidance and anxiety sensitivity, but is there any evidence at all for the claim here — namely an association between diagnosis or self-diagnosis and worsening anxiety disorders?
Or has the New York Times simply stoppe…
Y'all remember how they were going to put an AI teacher robot into a high school serving the Seneca Nation of Indians?
OF COURSE it was built by a sexbot company.
Gift link.
1. A short thread on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, the claim that scientific research has become less disruptive over time, and a paper about NIH's inadequate funding of novel science written by none other than the c…
More on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, from @theverge.com
This afternoon I took a much-needed break from tracking US science policy to bang up Frog Mountain off Highway 2 in the Cascades with my friend and collaborator Kevin Gross.
This would be the end of my US federal funding if of the anyone in thrall to the current powers-that-be knew that Nature is not a homeopathic aromatherapy magazine.
Below, the thread referenced.
h/t @thomasbackhaus.eu
Just received email spam from an outfit called Academic Humanizer that uses AI to rewrite your AI-written manuscript so people can't tell that it was written using AI.
I don't understand why academics don't trust Silicon Valley to solve a…
So I read the entire New Golden Age of Science report from Kratsios to Trump. If you want to skip my various stream-of-consciousness thoughts and exclamations and get right to a summary, here it's the relevant part of the thread.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@carlbergstrom.com
The handle is the domain carlbergstrom.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real carlbergstrom.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
Apr 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 272 views per post.
📤Posts about 14.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
72/100
Good
Credibility score
94%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 94% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Bluesky.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
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
he/him
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