Tom Tagoe

Neuroscientist, Science communicator & Co-founder @GhScientific. It's all STEM, God, Basketball and Family #neuroscienceinafrica

[Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT]

🚀 Big week for #GhanaSTEM!
From new biotech labs and AI innovation challenges to expanded digital‑skills programmes—Ghana is accelerating its STEM future.
Read the full highlights 👉 [https://t.co/wq4GpNIsyY]

[Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT]

Alternatively you can leave the decision up to the “boss”, but I do not advise this unless there is full trust that they will make the decision that is in everyone's best interest.

[Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT]

There are some things that many people consider common knowledge. Often this may only be common knowledge to people within a specific field and outsiders are largely ignorant.

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Q: So if the position of author names carries so much weight, how do academics ever agree on this?

A: Well, ideally, this should all be agreed upon before work begins. This way, everyone knows their pre-determined position so they can put in the amount of effort that matches

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All this to say the general rule is, ALWAYS leave room for error. If you think with this statement I just broke my own rule, well I have the competence to share with absolute confidence on this matter……or maybe not and I am another unknowing victim of the Duning-Kruger Effect.

[Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT]

There are many things you know, but once you experience it, your depth of knowledge takes a whole new meaning. Take this one: “The less you know, the more you think you know.”

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Alongside this you will also constantly engage with people who are more confident and those who are less confident than yourself. It is always a positive interaction when competence matches confidence of not.

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Every now and again it is worth being reminded that research is hard and neuroscience research is a different breed of hard, especially if you are doing this in Ghana.

This all seems like an obvious reality, so I guess the real reminder is "Do Hard Things"

[Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT]

Thankfully I came for the science and not the weather. #Sfn2025