Into HP or Douglas Adams?
It's anecdotal but pretty much all scientists (mostly physicists and mathematicians) I got to know closely loved (and occasionally quoted from) the Hitchhiker's Guide. But could just be self-selection of who you want to hang out with 🤷♂️
Varies a lot depending on the field. Not fair to equate actual scientists with software engineers. Yeah, they're mostly libs or apolitical, but so is the general public.
That's all true, although they're still affected by the externalities of capitalism and usually aren't particularly wealthy. The decline of the American empire and climate change will hurt them, too. Plus, there are anticapitalist arguments to be made against how funding is allocated, the privatized nature of most publishing, and the way medical research is so often used for the sole purpose of securing profits for corporations and is kept inaccessible to the vast majority of the population (this is why a part of me wants to see if it would be possible to go to grad school in Cuba and just, like... stay).
And I also feel like it would be pretty easy to radicalize climate scientists and ecologists.
Let's not trash the big brain nerds with such a broad brush. Scientists rock.
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ugh they're so hard to unionize:(
edit: how do I get them *hard * to unionize?
Call it forming a guild.
I'm not kidding, it's a good way to get your foot in the door.
And bring Wizzard cloaks for them to wear when you meet. Maybe some butter beer too
Do we start turning them on to better fantasy lit before or after the union is formed?
That's a gradual process that will culminate in a JKR book burning and a conversion to Le Guin and formation of a militant trade union
Aren't most scientists more into THGTH than Harry Potter?
I am.
Most scientists I know don't read fiction. In my workplace, we're like 3/10 for people who read fiction.
Into HP or Douglas Adams? It's anecdotal but pretty much all scientists (mostly physicists and mathematicians) I got to know closely loved (and occasionally quoted from) the Hitchhiker's Guide. But could just be self-selection of who you want to hang out with 🤷♂️
Adams:)
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These are good points.
because we are talking about science I immediately read that as unionize. Damn electrons going around willy nilly.
Varies a lot depending on the field. Not fair to equate actual scientists with software engineers. Yeah, they're mostly libs or apolitical, but so is the general public.
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That's all true, although they're still affected by the externalities of capitalism and usually aren't particularly wealthy. The decline of the American empire and climate change will hurt them, too. Plus, there are anticapitalist arguments to be made against how funding is allocated, the privatized nature of most publishing, and the way medical research is so often used for the sole purpose of securing profits for corporations and is kept inaccessible to the vast majority of the population (this is why a part of me wants to see if it would be possible to go to grad school in Cuba and just, like... stay).
And I also feel like it would be pretty easy to radicalize climate scientists and ecologists.
Oh, and perpetual adjuncts.
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Yes, that's true. They're not generally proletarian and it's harder for them to have solidarity with each other.
Yeah. The ones who get the media attention are libs like Dawkins or NGT, but they get the attention because the media likes what they're saying.