1/ On aspect of twitter that I enthusiastically celebrate:
There are a bunch of people on here that I would want to work with (not limited to #phdlife) because twitter allows me to gradually *discovery* how they *think*.
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2/ Monographs do that too, so long as the author is afforded sufficient liberties. Papers rarely do the same -- instead, they obscure the thinking bits in favor of mostly predigested methodological conformity.https://twitter.com/microjudgments/status/1091005222967640064 …
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3/ Twitter surfaces the thinking part because tweets hit this sweet spot of signal-to-noise, at least given chronic exposure to someone's stream.
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4/ Conversely, everyone gets the same "how to read papers quickly" advice in grad school because it works. And it works because so many papers papers are about 1 page of ideas wearing a 10 page tuxedo. The thinking part is diluted.
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Replying to @vikttu_
Welcome to the party! It gets weird.
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Replying to @generativist
hahahah it just so happens that i'm a bit weird too. i was looking through your bio and got interested about your research field
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Replying to @vikttu_ @generativist
i'm still an undergrad CS student here in brazil and i'm working on a project about fake news, if you have any tips you could share with me on the subject i'd be pleased! :)
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Hrm. If that's what your interested in, I'd say follow and check out @BrendanNyhan's stuff.
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Replying to @generativist @BrendanNyhan
thank you!! i’m gonna check it out!
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