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2 stories tagged metascience, newest first.

Screenshot of experimental-history.com: Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 17 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.

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Screenshot of writingruxandrabio.com: The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs (writingruxandrabio.com)

392 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 416 comments

A Substack essay by Ruxandra Teslo arguing that academia should tolerate unconventional 'weird nerd' researchers and take human capital more seriously in science.

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#metascience on Hacker News

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs(writingruxandrabio.com)

The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs (writingruxandrabio.com)