Organize Science Around Big Questions

All of science could be way more legible

10 hrs ago

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December 2025

Anonymous Science

Instead of an author list, results would just be from “The Lab.”

Dec 30, 2025

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Statistics is a Scientific Instrument

The problem is that many people treat statistics as a kind of oracle

Dec 23, 2025

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AI Administrators

The first thing we do, let’s automate away all the deans.

Dec 16, 2025

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Can Science Organizations be "Default Alive?"

The problem is that science is rarely a product or service.

Dec 9, 2025

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Taboos

Usefully transgressive research

Dec 2, 2025

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November 2025

Buying and Selling Science

To attract more funding, scientists could give customers what they really want

Nov 25, 2025

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Make Science a Scene Again

Choose a couple of peers you really care about and do work that will impress them

Nov 18, 2025

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Let Them Cook

Sometimes great science happens because the right person winds up with enough money and time to live and work without interference.

Nov 11, 2025

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Tithe for Science

There’s shockingly little support for scientists by scientists

Nov 4, 2025

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October 2025

Improve Access to Your User Facility

If you want to democratize science, give scientists outside of top institutions free time on the world’s best equipment.

Oct 28, 2025

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Recalibrate your expectations

The place of scientists in society over the past 80 years has been a historical anomaly.

Oct 21, 2025

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