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Right. Writing is science, and science is writing. Because science is about communicating results. All the data in the world doesn’t matter if people don’t know about it.

20/10/26, 11:58 pm5 reposts42 likes

Mickey Marlin White

@mickeymarlinwhite.bsky.social

Consider learning to write about sciene by imitating Carl Sagan or Loren Eisley.

Peter Desnoyers

@pjdesno.bsky.social

Writing is an aid to thinking. It helps flesh out ideas and fill in the holes. To quote A A Milne, when writing “you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it”

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

I think where science is going now is to publish fewer papers but invest more time in them. Citation metrics have broken our field in a thousand ways and this is just another: metrics create incentives to publish more more more.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

This is why I commented on the Bhattacharya / NIH proposal this summer to add new metrics for evaluating science and why I said that a metrics-first bloodless quant economics approach to science will restrain progress and innovation.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

I don’t use LLMs for writing and that makes it slower but it also allows me to write what I want to say.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

That said we can’t deny that LLMs will have a use in science. They will be some sort of a tool. As a search engine; as the internet was a tool that changed the way we read papers- from days in the library to having easy access to full text.

Buddha’s Chapati

@unusualtimeline.bsky.social

Right…I see you’re writing a paper on nuclear chromaticity. Would you me to write in the style of Sabine Hossenfelder but with joy and enthusiasm to throw them off the scent? 😉