1/ I never fully appreciated how weird public science intellectuals were until halfway through #phdlife. Like, in high school and college I'd read something Gladwell- or NNT}-esque and think,
1. Wow, this is so clear;
2. How can anyone disagree; and,
3. What an absolute genius!
4/ I don't really have a point, more like a nascent thought stream I'm trying to follow but can't because I have to attend to last minute edits on my defense slides. But I wanted to bookmark this idea.
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Thanks for sharing the starting point. Will read with interest if you get back to it. Also good luck with the defence!
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A very big challenge (disservice?) of good popular science writing is how it often neglects the dynamic and provisional nature of all inquiry. This is what the data tells us *today*, or these are the ways this data can be interpreted *today*.
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