Integrity or impact? Some thoughts from an early career researcher in my @royalsociety guest blog: http://bit.ly/1qKL4Xy
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@alecia_carter@royalsociety The basic criterion should be whether the problem is deeply fun, and whether the research and results are too.1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes -
How can one apply the "fun" criterion to *results* of research, given they are unpredictable/emergent?
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Not sure what I meant there! I suppose one can hope they'll be fun. I mean, if one isn't hoping they will, one's asking for trouble…
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Replying to @DavidDeutschOxf @reasonisfun and
Maybe intermediate results? I know that if I start working on a problem and don't occasionally get nice small pieces of insight... well, it's usually a bad sign! (There have been exceptions.)
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(I misspoke in a sense: I don't usually work on "problems" in any clear cut fashion, most just noodling around things that seem interesting and somehow promising. I wish we had a short term for this mode of work.)
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