SPQRJan 20, 2024
Chaos ensued. The letter provoked blowback from other scientists who felt that such an attack could aggravate divides and hurt the field’s credibility. Signatories reported receiving ominous e-mails containing veiled threats. Researchers on both sides of the aisle lost sleep over accusatory tweets. Some even contemplated leaving science altogether.
#neurobiology #science #experimentation #empircism #instrumentalism #BrainScience
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00107-7
The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?

There are dozens of theories of how the brain produces conscious experience, and a new type of study is testing some of them head-to-head.

Ariana MirianDec 5, 2023

I'm super excited to be at ACSAC 2023 tomorrow presenting some work from my time at UCSD IT titled "An Empirical Analysis of Enterprise-Wide Mandatory Password Updates"!!

While this paper finally found a home, it definitely had it struggles in getting here, so I wanted to take a moment to talk about the other side of paper acceptances, as well as what we mean when we talk about "research": https://arianamirian.com/docs/writings/on_novelty.html (TL;DR research doesn't need to be academically novel to be valuable).

If you'll be at ACSAC, say hi! And if you have any thoughts on what we mean when we say "research" drop a note :)

#research #novelty #empircism #soc #acsac2023 #austin

Ariana Mirian