Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya the idea that scientists ‘don’t want you to know a fact’ is statistically incompatible with their behavior
they publish ~2.5m papers/yr, upload 200k+ preprints, make >3m figures, and generate so many supplements that journals added file‑size limits because people kept submitting appendices the size of small video games
i once heard of 14gb of raw data uploaded ‘in case someone might care.’
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya
Exactly. Most scientists seem more eager to share knowledge than hide it. -
Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya in my experience the only thing scientists don’t want you to know is they put on mismatched socks this morning and they’re still going to tell you that anyway.
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Perhaps a truer line might be
"Scientific journals don't want you to know this fact... without paying for it."
I recall seeing a scientist here saying how they're willing to provide free copies of their paper upon request, avoiding this cost to the reader.
This, of course, supports your hypothesis about scientists sharing.
@johnlogic @neuronakaya and will then spend the rest of the day sobbing with joy because someone else wanted to read their paper.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
Oh, I know a LOT of scientists who don't want to know an important fact or two!
Fact 1: The genetic clock of a species and its line of ancestry is NOT automatically the same as its generation to generation mutation rate, and cannot be assumed to be so.
Fact 2: The 1,500 fossil individuals known form Africa between 2 & 4.5 million years old, all supposed to be nearer the human lineage than the chimp or human lineage, are not. Many are chimp or gorilla ancestors.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya It's one of those statements that tries to sound really smart or secretive, but instantly conveys that whatever follows is just as humbug.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
"We interviewed 10 brutally honest scientists and they all don't want you to know this one jaw dropping fact"
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya @EricLawton Oh really? Tell me more!
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Perhaps a truer line might be
"Scientific journals don't want you to know this fact... without paying for it."
I recall seeing a scientist here saying how they're willing to provide free copies of their paper upon request, avoiding this cost to the reader.
This, of course, supports your hypothesis about scientists sharing.
I'll send you a PDF of one of mine if you'd like one!
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya On a tour of the museum of nature’s workshops and storage facility. …and spent thirty minutes talking with the mollusk expert. I could have been there for hours getting the excited brain dump from them.
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@neuronakaya the idea that scientists ‘don’t want you to know a fact’ is statistically incompatible with their behavior
they publish ~2.5m papers/yr, upload 200k+ preprints, make >3m figures, and generate so many supplements that journals added file‑size limits because people kept submitting appendices the size of small video games
i once heard of 14gb of raw data uploaded ‘in case someone might care.’
@hvanleeuwen Scientists also know that gb means gram bits. You want GB, gigabytes.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya that's usually just used in clickbait news article titles.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya The other one is about scientific consensus. Science skeptics pretend there’s a cabal to present a united front. In reality, most scientists try their damndest to *disprove* accepted theories because that’s one very good way of making a name for yourself. Agreeing with everyone does nothing for your reputation. If a majority of scientists agree on anything — up to and including the color of the bloody sky — it’s because there’s no possible way to dispute the facts.
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Anyone saying "Scientists don't want you to know this fact" has never met a scientist.
Scientists are famous oversharers.
@neuronakaya
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As is evident every time I talk with someone
Internal conversation: “Ooohh! New person! Did they ever hear this new (scientific fact or discovery) before!?! They look like they really want to hear this!” (Definitely assumed this before opening mouth)
In a classroom raises hand: “I just wanted to comment on (various scientific factoids) that the rest of the class might be interested in this (random scientific fact related to factoid), it’s terribly fascinating!” -
@neuronakaya On a tour of the museum of nature’s workshops and storage facility. …and spent thirty minutes talking with the mollusk expert. I could have been there for hours getting the excited brain dump from them.
@WTL @neuronakaya reminds me of an experience I had at a museum. Me, geeking out about the amazing insect collection, lady comes up to me and asks questions, I start going on and on about any insect she points at and then says “I need to write this down to help with my tours” (she was the tour guide
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@neuronakaya
If you ask one to explain their work, it's often hard to get them to stop talking.@sunscream @neuronakaya
Exactly guilty as charged -
@sunscream @neuronakaya
Exactly guilty as charged @em_and_future_cats
Same here. I'll stop when they swipe their hand over their head and say, "that's way over my head." It's usually a signal that they want it to stop. Please stop. -
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