One of my biggest pet peeves, absolute science no-no, red alert, alarm bell, bad sign™ is non-modellers incessantly insisting — condescendingly! — on implementation or model details they know nothing about & which are demonstrably wrong. This kills meaningful collaboration. 
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This isn't that rare or as rare as it should be. It's happened to me on at least 4 projects.
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Replying to @o_guest
And/or they send you an “idea” and ask you to model it in a couple of days to be added to a “joint” grant proposal
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It's almost as if they don't respect modelling, theoretical work, or the time it takes to understand something enough to model it.
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Theory is " just thinking".
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @twitemp1
Modelling is "just outsourcing your thinking to a machine."
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Theoretical Physics is "just thinking on paper".
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Replying to @twitemp1 @IrisVanRooij
"What do you mean I have to think? That's why I have you!?"
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