Publications

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

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

Accelerating Self-Driving Car Innovation
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering

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

UNC Receives $18 Million to Develop Mobile Technology to Prevent and Treat HIV in Adolescents
UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases

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

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