Sometimes I tweet a joke that relies on background knowledge from a field I only superficially understand which makes me apprehensive but then get validation from domain experts in the form of likes/retweets and that’s just the most pleasant form of peer review possible.
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Replying to @generativist
I'll be honest, I feel the same way when I attempt to engage on some of the stuff you get on a roll about. I feel like Amy Adams in Arrival, or Natalie Portman in Annihalation: transfixed by something cool and just out of reach, and worried it may vaporize me.
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Replying to @wack_robert
I’m def not a vaporizer! I just like people hanging out with some ideas
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Replying to @generativist
I didn't think so, but man, have I seen some vaporization.
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Replying to @wack_robert
Yea they are terrible. I had a joke about the heat death of the universe yesterday that made me briefly see something cosmologists experience so often I assume it must be part of them in really rich ways. As such, it made me glimpse at why
@AstroKatie’s new book will be cool.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
She’s a great communicator though (and it was mostly a joke) so I didn’t have to worry about sounding foolish. I feel like you have to be that way to communicate well. And everyone has their very good models of something.
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