tbf, I’ve always loved the truth-seeking behavior at the heart of interdisciplinary academic squabbles about which science is more scientific than which other ones.
Leads to further pressures to improve methodology via cross-pollination anyway.
Though it does get out of hand sometimes. But in an environment with enough competitive young people, I think things getting out of hand on occasion is more or less inevitable, so whatever.
Of course, it’s my own training in certain skillsets that makes me prefer this view.
Yeah, I think a little friendly “competition” can be healthy, but it often turns into outright dismissal of other fields/ideas and needless cutting down because they view others as a threat. Someone else’s success undermines their own, that sort of thing. That is not productive and can even be damaging.
It’s kinda baffaling to me that we don’t encourage more hybrid degrees for scientific reaearch. Like even if it was just 10% of the field that seems highly valuable
Don’t worry about the sun expanding to swallow earth! It will gradually get hotter as the core uses fuel and contracts, rendering earth uninhabitable within just 1b years (if we don’t beat it to the punch)
I used to care for a tree frog with a croak I could mimic. Anytime I was nearby I’d do it and set them off in response. My understanding (which is limited and like 12 years ago) was that I had a male frog who was trying to one up me in response so he would get all the mates
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