Masks save lives
Kyle 🌱"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.
harryfiddler@KylePlantEmoji So true! "I just discovered the cure for cancer but I'm not telling anyone," said no scientist ever.
Gigawatt121@KylePlantEmoji it's cuz we're lonely
🏳️⚧️⛧ Fawn>Fun ⛧🏳️⚧️@KylePlantEmoji scientists are all so eager to tell you about the really niche thing they just learned
Attila Kinali@KylePlantEmoji Scientist here. Can confirm.
*scientific screaming intensifies*
archibebi@attilakinali @KylePlantEmoji do tell us everything!
@archibebi @KylePlantEmoji If you are an engineer and use the Fourier transform, there is a 99% chance that what you are doing is mathematically wrong (ask me how I know 😓 )
It's the slight non-linearities in electronics that transform the nice additive noise models we learn in school into ugly multiplicative noise when they hit reality. But nobody ever even mentions this important topic! So people apply the wrong model and wonder why they get the wrong result.
Thette (they/them)@thette @archibebi @KylePlantEmoji The reason why most devices still work is because they all work on functions that are limited in time and limited in value. This makes the function very well behaved. So well, that the tools work on these even if they wouldn't on more general functions. At worst, there is a scaling factor that's there but nobody can explain.
@attilakinali Thank you! Very interesting!
Oliver Gassner 
@KylePlantEmoji Also Journalists are in the business of keeping BIG conspiracies and small scandals secret, yes, yes.
Mx. Alba 
@KylePlantEmoji except when their research is under an NDA because it was commissioned by a commercial party... Capitalism doesn't advance science, it grinds it to a halt!
uoou@KylePlantEmoji Yeah but what *aren't* they telling you about the mating habits of brown marmorated stink bugs? [click here to find out!]
Gabriela Noriega 🏳️⚧️ 🇧🇷@KylePlantEmoji The only secret scientists want to keep is their calculator history /joke
Roslyn@KylePlantEmoji Yes, I really appreciate the loveable geekiness of scientists, especially how they notice things I don’t and use expert words that they kindly assume I know.
Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱@KylePlantEmoji So? Don't leave us hanging. What about the stink bugs?
Jason_Dodd@KylePlantEmoji Agreed, they're worse than people who run Arch.
Yasha Hartberg (he/him)@KylePlantEmoji, in fact, scientists measure success by how much they've let everyone know!
Crescendo 🎹🎮@KylePlantEmoji my wife has a phd in robotics and WILL spend a considerable time of her night trying to tell me about her research when I’m trying to sleep
Tom Resing@KylePlantEmoji many probably haven’t met a scientist
Materials Scientist@KylePlantEmoji I used to try to tell people what I know. My biggest challenge was calibrating the story that I wanted to tell with the amount of the listener’s knowledge and the depth of their interest. Sometimes I go too shallow/wide, sometimes it’s too deep/narrow. And then sometimes I just have to ask the question: Do you really want to know? My family patronizes me just a little bit….
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@KylePlantEmoji You start wishing they'd keep at least a secret or two.
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@KylePlantEmoji I've worked around biologists for years. I love the absurd thought that as soon as I (an EE) leave the room, the biologists can talk freely about how the COVID vaccine was actually more dangerous than the disease. 😆
Matthew "Smiffy" Smith@KylePlantEmoji This is totally reflective of my experience of academic Twitter/academic Fediverse, and I AM SO HERE FOR IT!
Karl Auerbach@KylePlantEmoji - Our dinner and party gatherings tend to have a high portion of science types - that's a side effect of living near a university that is trying to turn itself into "The Caltech of Northern California" - recently the hottest topics seem to be in the area of astrobiology.
Jackie@karlauerbach @KylePlantEmoji They should be looking at Earth's biology since its rapidly changing. Just look at the ancient microbes that can awaken as the #permafrost thaws.
@JackieWolf @KylePlantEmoji - I suspect a lot more people are busy looking at life on earth rather than looking for life not on earth.
But think of the impact on things like religion should we find signs of life elsewhere. Perhaps it could move us off of our desperate attachment to primitive mythology.
@karlauerbach @KylePlantEmoji While I appreciate some of the ethic, I think religion i s used as a method of control by all too many know nothing men in power.
Blotreport: YES@KylePlantEmoji They drive you mad. I've interacted with a few cookers who are so ignorant of science, hey they think we sit around and plot the 'next big hoax'. They are a viscous as porcine excrement.
You don't know me@KylePlantEmoji can confirm.
Sølvkre@KylePlantEmoji As a research librarian I can confirm this.
AnitaH2@KylePlantEmoji
My way to a certain biologist's heart was to be interested in his work on acid rain and aluminium's damage to Astacus astacus. (Freshwater crayfish).
To my defense, it is really interesting stuff.😊
My way to a certain biologist's heart was to be interested in his work on acid rain and aluminium's damage to Astacus astacus. (Freshwater crayfish).
To my defense, it is really interesting stuff.😊
EmoluMental@KylePlantEmoji Excellent point. True science is an open book.
Daria_QT
Nick 'The Viking'M.E. here, so I guess literally not a scientist, but ask me about #DiscusLaunchGlider or crack propagation or #MotoGP
I dare you!
Leo Saumure@KylePlantEmoji I was going to say P hacking, but I like your answer more.
Raghav Agrawal@KylePlantEmoji and that's why I haven't found a single academic who is against scihub and libgen, they want readers!
PS Livingstone@KylePlantEmoji My poor bf will attest to this. I’ve waxed lyrical about so many scientific discoveries. In my experience, other people don’t want you to tell them (at length, anyway). 😄
David Bremner@KylePlantEmoji I will never stop reading it as "the secret-scientists don't want you to know!!" Those secret scientists are the worst.
rmabennett@KylePlantEmoji 😂😂😂😂😂😂🙋🏻♂️
Kimota94@KylePlantEmoji An amazing number of people in 2022 are still living like it’s the Dark Ages and nobody really knows how anything works.
t3gr4@KylePlantEmoji this pattern of advertising/argument is so sickening. I have to assume it WORKS due to it’s pervasiveness - what does this say about people? ugh The idea that any expert is pulling a fast one on victims - and they are desperate to hide the truth in order to continue with their scam… does this prey on insecurity? why does this work?
CD Covington 🏳️🌈@KylePlantEmoji went out on Saturday and one of the guys asked me about my MA thesis (Germanic linguistics) and wanted "all the detail," so ....
writehere.isi know a few. they're usually pretty excited when someone asks them what they work on.
@KylePlantEmoji @allisondedecker
the one thing to not do though is ask them something about any other kind of science. they won't be able to form an opinion usually, and just kinda get quiet, shut down and change the subject.
it's .. strange.
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Alice Schwarze@KylePlantEmoji
I didn't know that we are friends but apparently we are? Anyway, where were we? Ah right, I wanted to tell you what the central limit theorem has to do with Brownian motion —
I didn't know that we are friends but apparently we are? Anyway, where were we? Ah right, I wanted to tell you what the central limit theorem has to do with Brownian motion —
Stephan Saalfeld@KylePlantEmoji ...or a scientist's children who may tell you about "the talks".
Kristin Branson@KylePlantEmoji As a self-identifying scientist, I enjoyed all the astute observations of scientist behavior in this thread. I love my colleagues' curiosity and how genuinely excited we are about e.g. the new discovery about the hairs in the knees of fruit flies.
golwengaud
Jörn Alexander Quent@KylePlantEmoji Have you asked a experimental scientist about the details of theirs methods? :D
2¢@KylePlantEmoji the secret scientists don't want their identity revealed so they keep their mouths shut.
Chris Bohn@KylePlantEmoji There's a joke about Reviewer 2 in there, but I'm too tired to phrase it right.
TweetingTechno@KylePlantEmoji This is why being a science communicator is such a great job. They really, really, really want to tell you every last detail.