ie, there's room for lots of people to contribute to science, and the connections don't have to be obvious in the moment. Just... people need to have the means to learn and then carefully record their findings, in ways that are accessible to other people...

Also worth saying that this always requires more work and technical expertise than one person or lab can realistically have. And you never know what info might be useful for solving which problems... Fundamental science and translational science feed each other, in a healthy research ecosystem

You don't necessarily know specific "uses" for fundamental science while you're doing it, but you can't use what you don't have!

"let me cook!" 😅 If I was going to tweak that "just go chat" advice to work for me, maybe I'd say something like 'put your ideas in conversation with others' - in person can be great, but asynchronous is possible too! Happens in the art world all the time :)

"go chat with other scientists!" is common advice, which can yield great exchanges w/ just the right ppl, but is always stressful for me and has to happen at just the right time... I feel much more nimble diving thru literature on my own, so I can follow hunches, take notes, switch gears on a whim

In research, I definitely feel most comfortable + creative when I have an open ended question with just the right level of challenge (I really enjoy "what missing info helps me reconcile x contradictions in my data/ the field") AND the time + space to wander in the literature by myself...

Also interesting how some of these things show up as parts of my sexuality, which isn't just "queer" as in "not heterosexual" but also as in "follows a different set of rules." Neuroqueer :)

The book describes sensory experiences, words, patterns, and ideas as toys in and of themselves, which I think is a lovely framework that rings true for me

it's this exact thing

The walkout was over NIH cuts, firings, getting rid of research on race and gender, queerphobic nonsense, canceled grants and the fact that Battarchaya has refused to meet with the union despite being officially asked twice

NIH staff staged a walkout when Batarchaya began championing the lab leak theory-- and implying this made NIH responsible for the pandemic as a whole, and the deaths that followed.

They'd been planning a walkout later on, but when they heard this, they spontaneously decided now was the time.

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