Karl Mertens

@BretWeinstein Thanks for your presentation yesterday. What’s the unit of analysis of consciousness? Some define culture as learned copied behavior. In the same way, is there an empirical but black box approach to the study of consciousness?

Low till/no till is a start. Topsoil health is an overlooked area, also need mammals to and cycle nutrients. theguardian.com/world/2019/apr…

@amesoudi As an infrequent and occasionally successful gasket maker, can confirm, seals are critical and interesting

Obviously, there is considerable individual and cultural variation. What do you think? Would we be able to have any relationships across cultures if these were not on some level universals ? @Oliver_S_Curry #thatscooperation #eeb #evolanth #sociality qz.com/1562585/the-se…

How odd, there are tradeoffs here that have consequences. #eeb #sciencepolicy #academia nature.com/articles/d4158…

Focused work is what most people should do. @DrZiker brings data and perspective to article by Cal Newport on the time vortex of email. chronicle.com/interactives/i…

Focused work is what most people should do. @DrZiker brings data and perspective to article by Cal Newport's article in the time vortex of email. chronicle.com/interactives/i…

Солянка - считается ли суп? #мирдасупкаждому #русскаякухня

Interesting... A word I encourage my students - regardless of gender - to avoid using, since it is imprecise and overused.

Privacy and due process shed a tear

@LindsayMasland Wouldn't the point be to shift it right? Skew would seem to indicate some students exhibit differential responses?

@juliagalef Evidence that Pinker is an AI running human algorithms

1) I'm frustrated Steven Pinker won't admit an error in Enlightenment Now. Summary: - Pinker names Stuart Russell as an expert who's skeptical of AI risk - Someone points out that's exactly backwards; Russell is one of the main experts warning about AI risk - Pinker doubles down

Honing messy professor skills #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #workselfie #workflow #analogdigitaldivide

There are costs and benefits to everything. Japan isn't "weird" - the socioeconomic landscape has shifted and doesn't look familiar. Human nature isn't an isolated variable. bbc.com/news/stories-4…

Something to think about, no more nation states...bit.ly/2klFZWC

Perception and behavior evolved to be 'good enough' strategies, not correct theatln.tc/1rwJPwv

Surprise, it takes time and careful thinking twitter.com/ricardo_hausma…

#лето #велики #красота If you're in Moscow, you should go; if not you should go too twitter.com/Russia/status/…

Fundamental change and complex problems twitter.com/sciencemagazin…