I am an Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. I co-founded the DataLab and direct the Center for an Informed Public. I study the Science of Science and worry about the spread of misinformation. My laboratory consists of millions of scholarly papers and the billions of links that connect these papers. I develop knowledge discovery tools to both study and facilitate science. In particular, I am interested in the origin of scholarly disciplines and how sociological and economic factors drive and slow the evolution of science.