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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Adam Strandberg

      The replication crisis and the credibility revolution response will, at minimum, make for a classic of long-form science writing, like The Soul of a New Machine or The Annals of the Former World. But I’d like to see the movie too!https://twitter.com/The_Lagrangian/status/1128476386631483393 …

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      Adam Strandberg @The_Lagrangian
      I want an HBO miniseries about the rise and fall of priming studies
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    2. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 14 May 2019
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      It remains unclear to me quite what you mean every time you say "science" in this context. Part of me thinks https://xkcd.com/435/  There's apparently a pathology in string theory, but that's a small part of physics, let alone "hard science". Are you just as unhappy with them?

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      I’m not sure what you are asking? I didn’t use the word “science” here

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    4. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Oh, sorry, I did: “science writing.” Do you not think the replication crisis concerns “science”?

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    5. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 14 May 2019
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      My question is, do you see it as a problem of social science/medicine or do you see it as also a problem of, eg, geology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, math? Every example I see talking about this (from you and others) is always social science/medicine w/ nod to string theory.

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    6. Maynard Handley‏ @handleym99 14 May 2019
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      Point is, I don't know that it's helpful to talk about problems in "science" IF the problems are essentially limited to a subset of science. That subset may be the majority in terms of money/people, but it's not everything. IF the hard sciences are doing better, learn from them…

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      Some problems are pervasive across fields; other are found more in some fields than others. The problems in string theory are not the same as those in psychology; string theory is untestable, whereas psychology mostly failed to do meaningful tests.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Joogipupu

      Physics is subject to the problems I mentioned of hoop-jumping, group-think, and bureaucratic cargo-culting. Here’s a friend of mine who is an astrophysicist working on galactic magnetohydrodynamics:https://twitter.com/joogipupu/status/1128459891360710656 …

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      As a young scientist I find it disheartening that to be able to keep up with outside incentives I will have to have relatively frequent publication rate. While it is true that you can piece a larger process into smaller steps, the demand quick for publication reduces quality.
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      Another astrophysicist friend of mine, @drossbucket, with a PhD on gravitational waves from neutron stars, chose to become a web developer and do physics on the side, because she thought she’d get more time for physics as a web dev than as a physicist:https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/about/ 

      8:13 PM - 14 May 2019
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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 14 May 2019
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          David Chapman Retweeted QC

          Brilliant guy who dropped out of a math PhD program because it seemed to have lost touch with reality:https://twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/status/1128407894603354112 …

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          Curious if you have a take on how this applies to academic pure math. My sense, from my stint in grad school, is not that nobody's doing "actual math" but that the entire apparatus has gotten totally disconnected from the rest of the world.
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        1. Lucy Keer‏ @drossbucket 15 May 2019
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          Tbh it was more like 'wasn't very good at academia and got out with no real plan', but this version definitely sounds more impressive :)

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