I have been reading the excellent Ben Recht on scientific waste. He writes: No one likes to admit it, but we need bad science to do good science. This is beautiful rhetoric, but not all kinds of bad science are created equal. Does Recht mean… I think there is a line where bad science starts […]
Help other people to repeat your results by telling them how to use your code
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) […]
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.
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 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 pretty damn personal.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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