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Ask Two Questions Before Launching Your Research-Based Idea
I’ve written before: Beware of successful launches. By which I mean: A great launch is nothing without a follow-on campaign to keep your idea percolating in the minds of your network and beyond. Like I keep
Social Science’s ‘Sea of Trash’
At some point, if you care about science, you will have to find 30 minutes and a stiff drink and read Alvaro de Menard’s 8,500-word post “What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It:
COVID-19: Three Cases for Bleak Optimism
I am anything but a COVID skeptic, as you know. But if you find the tone and conclusions of these three pieces as rare in your media diet as I do for mine, you might consider
Access vs. Accessibility
“I want to reach multiple audiences.” Every research communicator hears that over and over from researchers. I’m not going to do what most communicators do — smile sweetly, stopping at the brink of condescension, while inwardly
Safety Lasagne & The Wrong Fungus
Metaphors are like widgets for the mind. The point of a metaphor is to fit into two things — the world and your mind — and then turn, to unlock a different way of seeing in
Crappy Science & COVID Risk Perception
I caught up with a friend the other day — let’s call them The Old Scientist — who thinks many people are behaving too fearfully about the risks of COVID-19. The Old Scientist doesn’t advocate not