Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Exploring Project Connections Across the Citizen Science Landscape: A Social Network Analysis of Shared Volunteers
Futch, Sara E., Lincoln R. Larson, Caren B. Cooper, Bethany B. Cutts, Bradley C. Allf, Maria V. Sharova, Darlene Cavalier, Cathlyn Davis. SAGE Open (2024).
Nature’s Chefs: United the hidden diversity of food making and preparing species across the tree of life
Taylor, Brad W., Bradley C. Allf, Skylar R. Hopkins, Rebecca E. Irwin, Michelle Jewell, Omer Nevo, Lauren M. Nichols, Nabila Rodriguez Valeron, Joshua D. Evans, Pia M. Sorensen, Robert R. Dunn. BioScience (2023).
Citizen Science as an Ecosystem of Engagement: Implications for Learning and Broadening Participation
Allf, Bradley C., Caren B. Cooper, Lincoln R. Larson, Robert R. Dunn, Sara E. Futch, Maria Sharova, Darlene Cavalier. BioScience (2022).
Leveraging citizen science in a college classroom to build interest and efficacy for science and the environment
Smith, Haley., Bradley C. Allf, Lincoln R. Larson, Sara E. Futch, Lisa Lundgren, Lara Pacifici, Caren B. Cooper. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice (2021).
Microevolutionary change in mimicry? Potential erosion of rattling behaviour among nonvenomous snakes on islands lacking rattlesnakes
Allf, Bradley C., Amanda Sparkman, David W. Pfennig. Ethology Ecology & Evolution. (2020).
Behavioral Plasticity and the Origins of Novelty: The Evolution of the Rattlesnake Rattle
Allf, Bradley C., Paul AP Durst, and David W. Pfennig, The American Naturalist 188.4 (2016)
Speaking Engagements
How Predatory Academic Journals Endanger Science
TEDx NC State
Science Sonnets: The Poetry of Good Science Communication
Duke University Initiative for Science & Society
An Introduction to SciQuest
SciStarter
Scaly and Slimy Adventures of the Tiny Wild: Wilderness within Walking Distance
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
An Introduction to iNaturalist
SciStarter
Video
Citizen Science for All
NSF STEM for All Video Showcase
PluteusAction
SciArt Magazine (also featured by Labocine/Science New Wave)
Soundland
SciStarter
Crowd the Tap
SciStarter
Never Home Alone @ NCSU
SciStarter
I Think, Therefore I Sleep
The Society for Neuroscience
Mimicry
Evolution Film Festival
Science Writing
The Peculiar Appeal of Straight-Line Hiking
Backpacker Magazine
Ticked Off by Lyme Disease? A Vaccine Could Soon Offer Protection.
Backpacker Magazine
Tick bites are on the rise – but new vaccines offer hope
Backpacker Magazine
Citizen science volunteers are almost entirely white
The Conversation
- Republished on Yahoo.com
- Republished by the Missoulian
- Republished on Brittanica.com
- Republished by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Making your science writing sing: Craft lessons from poetry
The Open Notebook
What the shell! A guide to turtle-watching at Austin’s Lady Bird Lake
Austin American-Statesman
Like Texas Rangers of fake science, Beaumont firm tracks journals that don’t play by the rules
Austin American-Statesman
‘We have been untouched’: Pandemic life in the least vaccinated county in Texas
Austin American-Statesman
[PDF version]
Stars at night not always big or bright deep in the heart of Texas: Here’s where to go instead
Austin American-Statesman
Lead exposure in childhood can result in meaner, crankier adults, global UT study finds
Austin American-Statesman
Spanking has negative long-term effects, Texas researcher’s review of nearly 70 studies finds
Austin American-Statesman
As black hole swallows neutron star, UT scientists first to catch cosmic burb of gravity waves
Austin American-Statesman
[PDF version]
In search of how memory fails, UT Alzheimer’s disease study provides rare insight, thanks to rats
Austin American-Statesman
Stop holding your breath: Texas inventor’s tool could bring relief for hiccup sufferers
Austin American-Statesman
Texas Nature Trackers program taps amateur observers to help scientists catalog wildlife
Austin American-Statesman
Citizen Science is Changing People’s Lives — This Project Explores How It Happens
Discover Magazine, Citizen Science Salon
For constipated scorpions, females suffer reproductively. Males, not so much.
Smithsonian Magazine
The Future of Wilderness
NC State Applied Ecology News
Opinion: I Published a Fake Paper in a ‘Peer-Reviewed’ Journal
Undark Magazine
Native American communities battling COVID-19 draw on strengths
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
The Leech’s Journey, from Welsh Lab to American Hospitals
Atlas Obscura
Can Improv Improve Your Science Writing?
The National Association of Science Writers
Don’t Trust Scientists? Then Help Collect the Data
Scientific American Blogs
Sound Justice: Citizen Science, Noise, and the Quest for Equity
Discover Magazine, Citizen Science Salon
Crowd the Tap: Empowering Communities to Examine Their Lead Exposure
Discover Magazine, Citizen Science Salon
Take Pictures of Your (Six-Legged) Roommates, for Science
Discover Magazine, Citizen Science Salon
The Hidden Environmental Cost of Climbing Chalk
Climbing Magazine
- Spanish translation (“El costo ambiental oculto de la magnesia para escalar“) published in Freeman Outdoor Mexico
- Portuguese translation (“A história oculta e terrível do magnésio para escalar que ninguém nunca contou“) published in Blog Desclalada
Accelerating Self-Driving Car Innovation
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
- Republished in Electronics Components News Magazine
- Republished in Phys.org
Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina
Atlas Obscura
Can the Internet Save Snakes?
Sierra Magazine
UNC Brings Implementation Science Degree to Africa
UNC-Chapel Hill Quarterly Global Health E-Newsletter, UNC Gazette
Why rattle, snake [cover story, print only]
North Carolina Naturalist
Nurses to Improve Training and Trust
UNC-Chapel Hill Quarterly Global Health E-Newsletter
Health Effects of the 2016 Election
UNC-Chapel Hill Quarterly Global Health E-Newsletter
Behind the Scenes with 20,000 Mammal Specimens
The Wildlife Society
Study: North Carolina Minors Have Easy Online Access to E-Cigarettes
North Carolina Health News
Red Wolf Re-Introduction Program: Muzzled?
Environmental Storytelling
Crowd Simulation Research Aims at Reducing Mass Casualties
UNC-Chapel Hill Global
Video: 2BeatHIV Engages Community
UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
UNC Researchers VS. Zika Virus
UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
Dental Students Treat Mexican Children
UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
Poetry
By a Lake
The Nature of Our Times
Stub
The Nature of Our Times
Two by Two Degrees
Terrain
Two by Two Degrees
Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (Paloma Press)
Metamorphosis Lab
In Layman’s Terms
In the Harlow Lab
North Carolina’s Best Emerging Poets Anthology
Perfection
The Invisible Bear
“Well of course you’re trapped.”
The Charles Carter
Mongo Listening to the Wolves in Yellowstone
The Cellar Door
Baldwin Ritardando
The Cellar Door
Media Coverage of my Work
Predatory Publishing in Brain Science
All in the Mind, BBC Four
How you can contribute to scientific discoveries from your couch
PBS News Hours
Miscellaneous Writing
Bury Him, Melt Him, Make Him Serve Cookies: Here’s What UNC Faculty Want to Do with Silent Sam
Indy Week
Small Stature, Big Life: A Q&A With Centenarian Martha Caldwell
Carolina Alumni Review
Katherine Larson and the Webbing between Science and Art
In Layman’s Terms