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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Replying to @twitemp1 @IrisVanRooij
Boom! Headshot! This kills the collaboration!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
You are presuming that they were looking for one. My experience is that their intention is to sex up a proposal
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Replying to @twitemp1 @IrisVanRooij
I think it's on a spectrum but yes many are merely looking for a superficial add on. Those are the worst offenders!
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Another related thing some people do is say "I know all about modelling too" and you realise what they mean is they sometimes read papers that have modelling in them. That's fine but not really "knowing modelling"!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij
These are the ones who love excel spreadsheets ...
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I forgot about that! Some very touchy topics when you start wading into using Matlab and Excel, but you know/can guess my views.
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The overarching theme is the lack of respect towards modellers/theoreticians. I would never tell somebody who does empirical experiments to do it my way or "maybe we can try this" or "you get to be middle author because you only did the modelling" but only slightly more politely.
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