Modeling the flow of information
I am a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington.
The unifying theme running throughout my work is the concept of information. Within biology, I study how communication evolves and how the process of evolution encodes information in genomes. In the philosophy and sociology of science, I study how norms and institutions influence scholars’ research strategies and, in turn, our scientific understanding of the world. Within informatics, I study how citations and other traces of scholarly activity can be used to better navigate the overwhelming volume of scholarly literature. Lately I've become concerned with the spread of disinformation on social networks, and I'm trying to figure out what we can do about it.
Location
Life Sciences BuildingDepartment of Biology
University of Washington #351800
Seattle, WA 98195-3518
Land Acknowledgement
My home and workplace are situated on the land of the Coast Salish Peoples, land that touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Duwamish, Puyallup, Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations. The Coast Salish Peoples have lived in the Salish Sea basin, throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed, from time immemorial.This website is based on the Daxon HTML5 template.
Photo by Kris Tsujikawa. All other photos by CTB.