@BrianNosek Please always remember that citation practices and citation practices *over time* vary wildly between scholarly communities, from particle physics to history, for example. So questions like this do need to have some kind of scope made explicit.
@nosuchthing Pelmets are functional. They stop convection currents of warm air rising up behind curtain, being cooled by window and then descending into room. So they help keep air in room warm
@tariqeden First part is neat story about material agency but need to not reduce to a single techno-determinist thread like ‘stirrup thesis’. A lot more went on to create slavery than geological processes
@siminevazire@blackgoatpod@ankeny_rachel@alexa_tullett @hardsci That not all people engaged is a *strength* of engagement model, not a defect, cause it articulates the problem properly. Some people have low engagement but having a 'cheerleading' model will be counterproductive w these people (as @alexa_tullett said)
@siminevazire@blackgoatpod@ankeny_rachel@alexa_tullett @hardsci With heterogeneity problem there’s an empirical question. Different people will think differently about science – their friend, their uni, Monsanto, the government… Need to know this, cause it makes a difference
With #InternationalWomenDay2020 on Sunday we pay tribute to Florence Nightingale.
Florence used data to advocate for health reforms, and is often credited with the invention of the ‘coxcomb’ - an intricate form of pie chart.
#FunFactFriday