John Bohannon is a biologist and science journalist based at Harvard University.
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leads 📝Quicksilver's strategic partnerships with research and media institutions and directs the development of scientific knowledge tools. He worked for a decade as an award-winning investigative data journalist based in Europe and embedded with NATO forces in Afghanistan. He has a PhD in molecular biology from Oxford University.
Bohannon followed a girl to Oxford. He didn't get the girl, but he did get a PhD in molecular biology.
Become a correspondent for Science
Create the “Dance Your PhD” contestPerformed at TEDxBrussels in 2011 (and in 2012 at TED).
He became a visiting scholar at Harvard and embed with military forces in Afghanistan. Later engineering the first ever voluntary release of civilian casualty data by the military and the United Nations
Test whether people can distinguish the taste of paté versus dog food
Caused Stephen Colbert to eat cat food on television
Write “Green Porno” with Isabella Rossellini
Caused Jon Stewart to share his fear of bedbugs on the Daily Show
Work with the Cultural Observatory ondata representing 5% of all books ever published
Created the Science Hall of FameSubmit hundreds of fake papers to fee-charging open-access scientific journals
Revealed that 60% of them are not doing peer review
Do a chocolate weight-loss study and p-hack the dataTriggered a junk science media orgy
Worked with the hacker in (probably) Russia who runs Sci-Hub to publicly release a dataset of 28 million downloads
Created a global reading map of the world's largest illegal library
Joined my friend Sean Gourley's tech startup 📝Quicksilver
Reverse-engineering myself right now...
References
- John Bohannon, johnbohannon.org
- John Bohannon, wikipedia.org