The stories behind out research are mostly hidden, since they are typically not part of the papers we write.
Could we include these creative background stories in a section of the research paper format, maybe just as online supplements?
What do you think?
[#]science #research #creativity
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@mrillig It may be that you are giving away great stories because it would only remain in the study-reading bubble.
When working at a daily newspaper, it was a pleasure to lure these stories out of scientists, who often had no idea what could be done with them.
Unforgotten: In the mid-1980s, an AI researcher whose appetite for bratwurst played a major role in finding a solution for a problem. He then had to explain AI to me as if it were a bratwurst. 😁 People loved that! Suddenly, even the 1/2
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@mrillig 2/2 "normal" people understood what this man did. When he went to the weekly market, the butcher gave him a hot bratwurst: ‘So that you can find out exciting things again.’
Some scientists know how to find the bratwurst hook and have fascinating blogs.
A book tip: https://arthurimiller.com/books/einstein-picasso/ It's a wild experiment to tell 2 parallel biographies focusing on creativity of an artist/scientist.
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@NatureMC Cool, thanks for sharing! But imagine if there was an incentive to share these kinds of stories instead of stumbling across them by chance during an interview....
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@mrillig Well, that depends on which target audience you wish: only people reading studies (publisher of studies) or people reading stories and perhaps linked studies (blog = reaches scientists and non-scientists).
In short: do you want to tell these stories only to colleagues/scientists or to everyone interested?
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@NatureMC That is a very good point. Not sure I have an answer; but papers are actually read by scientists primarily, so they would be the audience, I think.
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