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I'm a Professor at the [[University of Alberta]] in the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute and Department of Psychology. <!--My students and I study the evolution of social behaviour between individuals in situations of conflict. I am particularly interested in [[Signalling theory|communication]] and decision making in aggressive interactions, and the biological basis of individual variation in aggressiveness. My research uses both mathematical modelling (principally [[game theory]] and [[genetic algorithm]]s, but have also used [[artificial neural networks]], and [[dynamic programming|stochastic dynamic programming]] models), and empirical research (from [[experimental economics]] and whole organismal [[behavioural ecology]] to [[immunocytochemistry]] of brain regions involved in sexual and aggressive behaviours). I am also interested in how genes and environment interact to influence the development of individual differences in [[personality]] and social behaviour.  As part of this research I am investigating relationships between [[genetic polymorphism]], the process of [[sexual differentiation]], intrasexual variation in aggression, [[cerebral lateralization]] and other traits.-->
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 Department of Psychology
 University of Alberta
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I have served as a referee for research grant proposals to the [[National Science Foundation]] and the [[Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council]], and have refereed papers for the journals: ''Aggressive Behavior'', ''Animal Behaviour'', ''American Journal of Human Biology'', ''[[American Naturalist]]'', ''Behavioral Ecology'', ''Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology'', ''Behaviour'', ''Biological Psychology'', ''BioSystems'', ''British Journal of Psychology'', ''Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology'', ''[[Condor (journal)|Condor]]'', ''Ethology'', ''Evolutionary Ecology'', ''[[Evolution and Human Behavior]]'', ''Hormones & Behavior'', ''Journal of Fish Biology'', ''[[Journal of Theoretical Biology]]'', ''[[PLoS ONE]]'', [[Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society#Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Society_B|''Proceedings: Biological Sciences'']], ''Psychiatry Research'', and ''Psychoneuroendocrinology''.
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==Contributions==
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I used to contribute mostly through [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Game theory|WikiProject Game theory]], and other topics related to my professional interests, but have been busier in RL lately.  I was recently working on [[Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis]] to the extent that I could find time...

Some pages I've contributed to include:
*'''Game theory''': [[Best response]], [[Evolutionarily stable strategy]], [[Game theory]], [[Hawk-Dove game]] (aka [[Chicken (game)]]), [[Uncorrelated asymmetry]].
*'''Biology''': [[Handicap principle]], [[Resource holding potential]], [[Sexual selection]], [[Robert Trivers]], [[Coolidge effect]].
*'''Development & personality''': [[Digit ratio]], [[Fraternal birth order]], [[Prenatal hormones and sexual orientation]].
*'''Music''': [[Articles of Faith (Band)]], [[Beefeater (band)]], [[Squirrel Bait]], [[Rhythm Pigs]]
*'''Medicine''': [[Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis]], [[Pathological laughing and crying‎]]
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Despite some misgivings about the {{tl|Maintained}} template, I've added my name to a few pages.  I think its an idea worth exploring, and view my participation as an experiment.  The pages are: [[Best response]], [[Evolutionary stable strategy]] and [[Game theory]].  That my name appears as a maintainer does not mean that I necessarily endorse absolutely all the material that may be on those pages (and certainly should not be taken to imply that I have any more business editing those pages than anyone else).
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==[[Subculture|Subcultural]] Affiliations, [[Counterculture|Countercultural]] & Political Allegiances==
*[[Anarcho-syndicalism]]: lapsed [[wobbly]]. 
*[[Free software]]: full-time [[linux]] user (since 1995, since before the [[tux|penguin]], since before the modularized kernel).
*[[Epistemological anarchism|Epistemological/methodological anarchist]].
*[[Hardcore punk]]: [[Punk rock]] saved my life
:(thank you [[Articles of Faith (Band)|Vic Bondi]], thank you [[Ian MacKaye]], thank you [[Henry Rollins]] and [[Greg Ginn]], thank you [[Mike Watt]], [[D. Boon]], [[George Hurley]], thank you [[Hüsker Dü|Hüskers]]; thank you [[Joey Shithead]], Wimpy Roy and [[Gerry Hannah|Gerry Useless]]; thank you [[Subhumans|Dick Lucas]], thank you [[Steve Ignorant]] and [[Penny Rimbaud]]).
*Music the most powerful mood altering substance I've ever experienced, [[John Coltrane]] and [[Pharoah Sanders]] are my therapists.
*I'm in my second decade of the 'Jazz Snob' phase of the punk-rock recovery program: 
:Did you know that: of the 10 greatest albums in the history of vertebrate evolution 3 are by [[Miles Davis]]?
:Rock on: [[Last Exit (Free jazz band)|Last Exit]], [[Curlew (band)|Curlew]], [[The Lounge Lizards|Lounge Lizards]] [[The Bad Plus]] [[Sex Mob (band)|Sex Mob]], RIP [[Esbjörn Svensson]].
*[[Mountaineering]]: Lead [[traditional climbing|trad]], goose your inner chicken.
*[[Skateboarding]]: Give blood, ride a skateboard.

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==Vices==
(In alphabetical order, rather than severity of vice)
*[[Bouldering]]
*[[Islay whisky]]
*[[Soccer]]
*[[Oatmeal stout]]
*<s>[[Tim Hortons]]</s> given up on Timmies... <small>(I've amassed a walletfull of Tim Horton's gift cards, but none of the Timmies near me accept Tim Horton's gift cards. All those would be gift-givers just donated their money to Timmies instead of supporting my donut habit... 4Q Timmies!)</small>
*(Wikipedia?!)

==Arbitrary top-<s>ten</s> list==

===Most memorable live shows (chronological order)===
# [[The Clash]], Ottawa Civic Center 5/3/1984 --- The crowd rushed the stage during the encore, the band played on, hugely outnumbered by kids (one in a [[Crass (band)|CRASS]] t-shirt! Intentional irony?) dancing on stage.
# [[Nomeansno]] (& many other bands), Montreal 1985 --- The "It Came From the Pit" show.  Hitchhiked to Montreal the day before and slept on an anthill between shortstop & third base someplace downtown.  The show was in a huge church basement.  Rob Wright wore his priest get-up, smiled this beatific smile to all the kids as they came up and thanked him for letting them have a show in his church.  Then he got up on stage... Bang! start - stop start BANG! STOP!
# [[Beefeater (band)|Beefeater]], Ottawa Sandy Hill CC.  Fred crooning "Fred's song" to the six pack of chrome-domes in the pit.  Priceless.
# [[Meat Puppets]], Toronto RPM.  Bruce stole a van and we drove to Toronto to see the band, Catherine's fake ID failed at the door, I hit Cris Kirkwood with a raw ear of corn, he used it as a pick.  They were in fine form.  On the drive back, in the middle of nowhere, we blew the motor out.  Moral of the story: check the oil before a road trip, <u>especially</u> if the car is "borrowed". (The show was simulcast by an FM station, I have a low quality booleg of it somewhere...)
# [[Swans (band)|SWANS]], Jan 1988. Ottawa, One Step Beyond. loud, very Very VERY '''LOUD''', and tight, very *very* tight.
# [[The Beatnigs]]/[[Billy Bragg]] Feb 1989, Ottawa. [[Michael Franti]]'s solo bass ode to [[Malcolm X]] was a memorable highpoint, then a percussionist slammed a finger between two wheelrims, and Billy came on and told jokes...
# [[Bad Brains]], Montreal, Aug 1989.  On a trip to Montreal after the end of field season. Slept on [[Aidan Girt]]'s livingroom floor.  Indoor-outdoor carpeting if I recall correctly, but maybe I just remember it that way because I was covered in poison ivy. Had a hard time explaining the bottle of DEET in my pocket to the bouncer, I guess they don't call it "bug dope" round here.  Seriously, you can't smoke up and play like that!... can you?!
# [[Fugazi (band)|Fugazi]], Ottawa, Glebe CC, Sept 1989.  Fugazi in your broom closet, Intense.
# [[Jonas Hellborg]], Stockholm Sweden Fasching. Dr Death invited himself up for a visit and stayed in our batchelor apartment, we took him out to see real music, he whined about how silly live music was compared to raves, half the women there hit on him, we could not figure out why.  Hellborg played great ([[Shawn Lane]] played great too, but it would have been nice if someone switched his mike off...)
# [[The Jesus Lizard]], Portland OR, Satyricon 1998.  I thought I had seen it all!  Indiscribable, unbelievable!  A riot with soundtrack.  From the first chord of the set David Yow was off surfing the crowd, mic cord trailing behind.  From somewhere in the second song he was buck naked save for a pair of cowboy boots.  The pressing question was not "How did the jeans come off while the boots stayed on?"  but "How can this band play so f***in' tight".  The whole drive home, we just kept muttering back and forth "Do you believe that!...".
# [[Sex Mob (band)|Sex Mob]], Austin TX Elephant room, SxSW. March 2000. If this is jazz, then I wasted my youth going to see punk shows!

===Shuffle list===
First ten songs from the MP3 player's shuffle (rules per [[User:Steinsky|Steinsky]])

#[[The Hanson Brothers]] - [[The Kinks|Victoria]]
#[[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]] - The punchline
#[[The Art of Noise]] - [[Henry Mancini|Peter Gunn]] (feat. [[Duane Eddy]])
#[[Snuff (band)|Snuff]] - [[Booker T. & the M.G.'s|Soul Limbo]]
#[[Bad Brains]] - [[I Against I]]
#[[Toots & the Maytlas|Maytals]] - [[54-46 That's My Number|54-46 Was My Number]]
#[[Ian Dury|Ian Dury and the Blockheads]] - [[Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll]]
#[[The Clash]] - Bankrobber Dub
#[[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]] - Tourspiel
#[[Television (band)|Television]] - [[Marquee Moon|Friction]]

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | While it may be true that I'm still quite bitter over your part in getting [[Space Warfare in fiction]] originally deleted, you are one of the most prolific and, uh, ''effective'' deletionists on Wikipedia. And that's something. This barnstar was practically made for you. --'''[[User:Sharkface217|<span style="background:black;color:red">Shark</span>]][[User talk:Sharkface217|<span style="background:black;color:red">face</span>]][[Special:Contributions/Sharkface217|<span style="background:black;color:red">217</span>]]''' 02:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
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