"One concept that creates misunderstanding is “scientific consensus.” It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what it really means."

It's confusing because encountered in as different applications we see, "consensus" is a hazardously ambigous term. A poor choice for conveying what we intend to say in this context.

English is rich. There's an exact term for communicating this type of agreement: "consilience."

#consilience

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ady3211?af=R

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience

Unpopular opinion...her 2008 performance of "Photograph", joined by Def Leppard, was peak Taylor Swift.

Yes: sixteen years ago. It was on CMT CROSSROADS (not super easy to find online).

Ms. Swift not being a natural fit for the material is what made it great, honestly.

Every genre, every cohort, every tribe, every category, every faction, everywhere, ought to have some sort of "crossroads" program.

#TaylorSwift
#DefLeppard
#consilience
#music

https://m.vk.com/video-30330_135676975

Our latest weekly #ClimateResearch roundup includes a sweet example of #consilience:

"Transition from positive to negative indirect CO2 effects on the vegetation carbon uptake," Chen et al.

If we observed primary productivity behaving this way out of the blue, we'd want to know why, we'd look for why and we'd end up with an explanation for why-- via #AtmosphericGeochemistry.

Increasing CO2 concentration manifests by multiple independent paths-- in mutual agreement.

https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_2024_8.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

OnlineFirst - "Counterfactual and consilience" by Jessie Poon:

#GlobalProductionNetwork #evolutionaryeconomicgeography #counterfactual #consilience

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231218872

"In a very literal sense, heavy users of social media are being behaviorally entrained to engage disproportionately in bad faith communication."

"Avoiding social catastrophe will require the deployment of highly skilled, non-naive good faith communication."

Excellent reading opportunity for this rainy weekend. #ConsilienceProject #BadFaith #Consilience
https://consilienceproject.org/the-endgames-of-bad-faith-communication/