John Bohannon
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John Bohannon speaking at Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) in 2012
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| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (DPhil) |
| Thesis | The role of the wss operon in the adaptive evolution of experimental populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Rainey |
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John Bohannon is a biologist and science journalist based at Harvard University.
Bohannon completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Molecular biology of Pseudomonas fluorescens at the University of Oxford in 2002 supervised by Paul Rainey.
Bohannon writes for Science, Discover Magazine, and Wired Magazine, and frequently reports on the intersections of science and war. After embedding in southern Afghanistan in 2010, he was the first journalist to convince the US military to voluntarily release civilian casualty data. He received a Reuters environmental journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on the water crisis in Gaza. He was also involved in some controversy over an article he wrote critiquing the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties.
At Science Magazine, Bohannon also adopts the "Gonzo Scientist" persona, where he "takes a look at the intersections among science, culture, and art -- and, in true gonzo style, doesn't shrink from making himself a part of the story. The stories include original art and accompanying multimedia features." As the Gonzo Scientist, Bohannon's research on whether humans can tell the difference between pate and dog food led to Stephen Colbert eating cat food on the Colbert Report.
Bohannon created the Dance Your PhD competition, in which scientists from all around the world interpret their doctoral dissertations in dance form. Slate Magazine ran a profile on Bohannon and the competition in 2011. He performed with the Black Label Movement dance troupe at TEDx Brussels in November 2011, where he satirized Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal by modestly proposing that Powerpoint software be replaced by live dancers. Bohannon then went on to perform with Black Label Movement at TED 2012 in Long Beach.
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