Can you think of any group of academics who have had a heated debate or drama over some little thing that’s not too serious to those from the outside? Not like anything actually awful like a bad person hurting people in the community, but like, a science beef that got HEATED?
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Replying to @SarahMackAttack @o_guest
Yes, in the late 90s, my grad advisor & I were involved in an argument about prototype & exemplar models with Rob Nosofsky that was so heated that they faced off at a conference during a talk session & pushed each other's overhead transparencies back & forth on the projector...
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By the way, the "overhead transparency" is kind of a bespoke , analog PowerPoint point....they were literally pushing each other's slides off the projector and I thought they were going to fight for real. This was at
@Psychonomic_Soc in Dallas in the late 90...it was crazy3 replies 1 retweet 12 likes -
Waaat!!
I so wish YouTube existed back then!
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The moderator calmed things down,
@abmarkman just commented now that it was him! I guess it would have been like some of the Twitter fights that PIs get involved in now and their trainees stand helplessly by. It was so awkward!1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes -
Replying to @PaulMinda1 @o_guest and
Like on the one hand, I wanted to support my advisor and defend our work, but I also had tremendous respect for Rob's work, and viewed him as a possible postdoc mentor in the future... Yes, it would have been awesome to have YouTube and Twitter back then!
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Replying to @PaulMinda1 @o_guest and
That was my 1st Psychonomics as a grad student and I will never forget it. Wild.
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Oh, also... I love how @PaulMinda1 explained overhead transparency for the people too young to know/remember. 
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