Reproducibility includes documentation
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
Tag: science
When all you have is a hammer, get more tools
When all you have is a hammer, everything sure does start to look like a nail. This is not a good thing. I’ve spent a lot of my life variously1) Falling in love with physics and physics fundamentalism (the idea that physics is the “building block” of our reality)2) Training to “think like a physicist”3) […]
Marketing prediction markets
As a certified prediction market enjoyer, I’ve been thinking about why people might not like prediction markets, and how we might change that. Here are my (very rough) thoughts.
Automating science
Life after the PhD and the future of science I haven’t written here in a while. Finishing my PhD took a lot out of me, and since then I’ve been finding my feet and working on a new project – prediction markets for science. (I have a little website at sciencebetting.com, and you should check […]
Scientific Objects and Emotion
Scientific objects are different enough from the things you might find in your house and home that academics treat them differently. But is that the right approach?
Science is stored in the scientists
Science is pretty damn personal.
What can we learn from printed circuit boards?
This is a post that mainly exists because my research has thrown me a curveball and I need to think out loud about what I’m doing. I research the history of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, a space lab housed in a Victorian mansion in the middle of nowhere. (Yes, really.) Part of my research […]
Is quantitative always better?
When it really comes down to it, the wild success of mathematics in describing physical concepts is what makes it matter so much. The mythologies and folk legends that have sprung up around the history of science tell us that it was mathematics that led us out of our ignorant state, that it was quantitative […]
The many violences of ableism
I’ve not usually had to add content warnings to my posts, but in this session we discussed death, dying, suicide and genocide. Not only is that a lot to cover in an hour, it’s also quite heavygoing. Friday 15th marked the last Science and Disability reading group of the decade. To be fair, this isn’t […]
Passing on wisdom: from those who have left physics
International Women’s Day is never easy for me. I love celebrating other women, but I see myself as too awkward and abrasive to do anything worth celebrating. This year was especially hard, because it was my first International Women’s Day since I left physics properly and became a science communicator. I’m still in touch with […]
Osnat Katz Moon 