“You might think that the goal of your poster or talk is to convey information. The bigger goal should be to start conversations.

“Personal conversations are the one thing that conferences do better than any other format.

“Whoever starts the most conversations, wins.”

That makes sense. Technical writing is so less restrained than social media and so different stylistically that it seems unlikely the same model could parse both.

Do you think this kind of model could be expanded to citations in the journal articles? That is, distinguishing positive from negative citations? Anyone working on that?

“Prepare for combat, bucket!”

I was working as a movie projectionist when this was released, but for some reason, we never got it in our theatre! Gap in my genre knowledge that should be filled!

DORA and CoARA have ideas about how to do this, and are making progress, I think.

“(T)he only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines”?

Linus Pauling, Chemistry and Peace.

She’s explicitly said no, a few times I think.