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@Sheril @elisegravel I love her books, esp The Mushroom Fan Club! 🍄 🍄 🍄

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Upbeat comic. Kids might benefit from it, but beware of the Ben Shapiros who would use this to claim that scientists are no different than us, they make mistakes, so all of us are on the same footing.

@Sheril @elisegravel well, there is that ONE guy who exchanged curiosity for narcissism: https://qoto.org/@TIR_scienceblog/110903908955619752

@Sheril @elisegravel I discovered her work a couple years ago when I bought “if found please return to Elise Gravel” for my daughter. I love it and it’s been so inspirational and freeing for Fiona.

@Sheril @elisegravel Curiosity is the foundation of all worthwhile achievements. Very cool little cartoon strip.

@Sheril @elisegravel this is amazing.

@Sheril @elisegravel Very cool. Also, scientists will never tell you "This [whatever] is absolute truth" but rather "From what we know thus far..." such and such. Science is in continuous evolution the same way we never stop learning (if we try). No wonder fanatics hate it.

@Sheril @elisegravel German cooking traditionally focuses a lot on boiling things in water. As a result, there's a German saying that goes something like "They just boil with water everywhere. " Applies to science, too.

@Sheril @elisegravel very nice comic 😀

Hollywood movies and American series sure do not help convey this important message, so it's nice to have such counter-art!

@Sheril Spoiler : everyone is curious too. But society thought it through. Most will wash houses all day or dig potatoes, and few will be awarded to not do any of that.

That's what we have grades and exams for.

@Sheril @elisegravel beautiful! I absolutely love it! :D

@Sheril @elisegravel poke @jaztrophysicist

@Sheril @elisegravel Curiosity and sense of wonder, that's what defines a scientist!
PS: I particularly liked the fact that it is a boy the one asking for help with the math to a girl 😊

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... but to be a scientist, you have to be WILLING to be wrong, ask for help, admit you don't know everything and that you aren't a genius. You also have to be willing to do the hard work of continuing through til the research is done, not just til you're satisfied or tired of it or got an answer you liked. Not everyone has those qualities or is willing to learn them. Not everyone is, or can be, a scientist.

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I love this, but it's a little ableist in an unusual way. "Some scientists are geniuses, but most scientists are people like you and me."

I know the intent isn't contrasting "scientists" and "people," but contrasting it with "people like us." It's just one of those situations where English can be imprecise.

(On the other hand, if someone's brain is sticking out of his forehead, maybe he's an alien!)

@Sheril @elisegravel What makes a scientist a scientist, is the usage of the scientific method.

Just being curious is of course important, but not enough to be scientific. Structuring chaos, isolating effects and identify causality, not just correlations is essential.

@Sheril @elisegravel But Scientologists are NOT people #KnowTheDifference

@Sheril @elisegravel I'd like to go ahead and plug the Letters to a Pre Scientist program. If you're a scientist who wants to communicate with kiddos, and help them see that anyone can be a scientist, I believe the program is still looking for volunteer pen pals.

@Sheril @elisegravel unfortunately, academia says otherwise 😔

@Sheril @elisegravel i needed to read this

@Sheril @elisegravel yup. this is awesome. i was a scientist for more than 20 years, co-author on over 30 publications, published in places like Nat Comms and Cell. three first authorships, Participated on a submission in which a childhood disorder was named for the first time.

and was never able to get into grad school bc my baccalaureate grades were not good enough. (it's not only when we were 'young' ;)

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Yes, except you won't get funding so actually you can't.
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thank you - forwarded this to my kids

@Sheril It's funny because scientists are the most dogmatic, incurious people I've ever seen. It makes sense that they'd try to self congratulate about precisely that.

@Sheril @elisegravel Scientists are usually intelligent, not because of what they know, but because they know where to go to try to find the answer.

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https://elisegravel.com/en/blog/scientists-dont-come-from-mars/

@Sheril @elisegravel I always *did* have the best grades when I was young, and it nearly broke me when I encountered objective failure in a probability theory course in college. That class taught me a little bit about probability theory but a huge amount about how to deal with not acing something on my first, second, or last try. That experience made me a better scientist.

@Sheril @elisegravel one day it dawned on me, Hey, if scientists can admit they’re wrong, I can too.

@Sheril @elisegravel pure scientist propaganda. Everyone knows you can ONLY be a scientist when you have purchased a lab coat.

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@Sheril @elisegravel loved this

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That pretty much describes engineers too .

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#STEM #STEMKids #science

@Sheril @elisegravel I'm not keen on plate 4 but can't articulate why very well. Otherwise, it hits the nail on the head.

@Sheril @elisegravel Curiosity is a prerequisite, and I'd say that a large part of formal scientific training is knowing how to find out (how to choose reliable sources & conduct experiments) and have confidence in the answers you find (reproducibility, minimizing bias, etc).

@Sheril @elisegravel This can set quite a dangerous president that would question scientists more often leading to people being more open to belief like flatearths. Remembering that becoming a scientist takes a lot of work to produce a work for science makes people strive to become better. Being contempt with oneself is surrendering and by attitude is the worst which can lead to suicide.

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That' why they shouldn't be believed slavishly every time. (Oppenheimer thought it would be OK to drop the bomb on Hiroshima - then nobody would ever use it again!)

@Sheril @elisegravel this is so good!!

@Sheril @elisegravel I like that comic. I'm a scientist and everything is true for me. 🙂