🚨 Is novel research worth doing?🚨 There are serious concerns about slowdown in innovation. Are institutions to blame? In science, does peer review discourage novel work? Paper with Hao Peng mrblasco and @klakhani finds the opposite! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… 1/n

when you pull on a thread and the entire sweater unravels

Any suggestions for things to read after The Structure of Scientific Revolutions if I was particularly interested in the stuff about how pedagogy/textbooks reinforce normal science?

Can/should you use statistical hypothesis testing when you have data on the entire population? I thought not, but apparently a large number of sociologists think otherwise??(academic.oup.com/sf/article/84/…, pp 12-15)

Sometimes I get discouraged by how little I know in my newly chosen field, but then I remind myself that 10 months ago I literally had no idea what causal inference was, so we're doing pretty ok, actually

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in nature In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Today, a group of scientists from

First time hearing of this: is "stock and flow" just the business school version of SIR/compartmental models?

Why do we believe a public power utility can preform better than DTE? Because the currently existing ones already do. When utilities are run for people not profits the infrastructure fails less often, it's that simple

Science of science folks: does anyone know of any scisci papers using the March '91 model of mutual learning (or something similar)?

What is a mathematical proof? What we tend to think of as an eternal, immutable truth, is perhaps better understood as a social construct, number theorist Andrew Granville explains. Jordana Cepelewicz reports: quantamagazine.org/why-mathematic…

🎉New paper by Sidney Xiang 🎉 Conventional wisdom is that interdisciplinary research is great intellectually, but penalized in institutional evaluations like peer review. We show that this wisdom isn't quite right/complete... (1/4) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Just got my new prescription and I think I’m at the stage of myopia where glasses are just going to look weird on me forever (-7.75/-7.00) 😔

This whole article is incredibly interesting:

My new PNAS paper with Daniel Romero ! 😎 With open data everywhere, how can we creatively unlock its potential for impactful innovation? We show that unusual combinations of datasets lead to more impactful discoveries, yet even simple combos remain rare. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…