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Even by XKCD standards, this is heavy scientist-bait. The research community has risen to the challenge, flooding the net with remixes that are, if anything, even better than the original: works of microfictional genius to rival Hemingway's "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." 4/
Many of these have been collected on @bruces' Tumblr blogs, and, taken as a body, they constitute an act of wry, insightful auto-ethnography - self-criticism wrapped in humor that tells a story.
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"Types of Paper in Epidemiology and Public Health" * We counted how many people have a disease, here are maps with poor countries in red * We found that if you call your research 'genetic epidemiology,' then people are surprisingly OK with eugenics https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002102621519872 … 6/pic.twitter.com/mMgAwh7zkN
"Types of History Paper" * Stuff happened: a chronology 1910-1974 * They missed so much stuff, it's honestly embarrassing 1910-1974 * I am so tired of stuff scholarship * Wokeness is killing stuff scholarship! A senior scholar weighs in https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002102621519872 … 7/pic.twitter.com/j437GgGjXS
"Types of Glaciology Paper" * The ocean is doing a bunch of weird stuff to this glacier * Why is it doing that: the wild physics * Why is it doing that: now with machine learning * We found a glacier that's doing fine! Oh, wait, nevermind https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002102621519872 … 8/pic.twitter.com/6fNHZgqZS2
"Types of Entomology Paper" * This pesticide is completely safe, says one very restricted metric * This pesticide will kill us all: extrapolation from irrelevant data * 39,000 new parasitic wasps https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002102621519872 … 9/pic.twitter.com/0lUUmoPHSO
"Types of Climate Science Paper." * Here's a bad thing about climate change you hadn't even thought about * Did any of you guys take a statistics course? * Things are definitely worse than we thought * Things are definitely better than we thought https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002179207348224 … 10/pic.twitter.com/P63rI0cruE
"Types of Quantum Computing Paper" * Simulating our system with our system * We've solved QC with our new scripting language https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002179207348224 … 11/pic.twitter.com/R5zjitzQ2O
"Types of Remote Sensing Papers" * We saw stuff on the ground from space * We saw stuff on the ground better from space * What's that? Let me see if I can see it from space * Have you tried neural networks though? https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002179207348224 … 12/pic.twitter.com/N7P5gVs89k
"Types of Building Energy Papers" * Expensive material improves building efficiency * Stop climate change by rebuilding all buildings this way * Insulate all things https://wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/650004947977519104 … 13/pic.twitter.com/3HAs1BPL9R
"Types of Housing Papers" * Why tech workers deserve condos with better walk scores * Design students' yurts will end poverty * Supportive housing costs less than boiling poor people in oil and it's more efficient https://wolfliving.tumblr.com/post/650004131207053312/design-students-yurts-will-end-poverty … 14/pic.twitter.com/LQvfHYNGhm
* Elders have rebuilt enough equity for a new round of predatory lending * Neighborhood gained wealth when rich people moved in * This city ended homelessness (for left-handed veterans with cats) 15/
I saved my favorite for last: "How a reporter sees types of science papers" * This journal puts the full paper online * Quantum * I know this person responds to emails * GIF-able video in the supporting information https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/650002179207348224 … 16/pic.twitter.com/KaoogYuLX2
* Fig 1 seems like it basically sums the whole thing up * Scientist beef! * I covered their last paper eof/
ETA - If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on http://pluralistic.net , my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/02/microfictional-auto-ethnography/#sci-micro-fi …
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