Many thanks to Andrea Kantrowitz for transcribing the long conversation we had back in August!

If you like my idea of a 'drawing class' for scientists, let's talk. I'd love to try that out! 🤙

https://open.substack.com/pub/andreakantrowitz/p/drawing-science?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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To kick off 2025, we bring you a fascinating episode on #archaeology and #popculture, featuring special guest and budding archaeologist Phoebe Barnes!🏺⛏️🦴

Do you love #TombRaider? 🪦🧩 #IndianaJones? 🤠🛕 #JurassicPark? 🦖🦕 Then this episode is for you.

We touch on #archaeogaming 👾, representations of archaeologists on screen vs archaeologists irl 🗿📜, and the mix and bleed of #scientificthinking and the #humanities.

We hope you enjoy it! Links to the episode in comments 👇 #scicomm #podcast

⭐ Encourage Critical Thinking

📚 "Critical thinking depends on knowing relevant content very well and thinking about it, repeatedly. Here are five strategies, consistent with the research, to help bring critical thinking into the everyday classroom."

🌐 https://www.adlit.org/topics/comprehension/critical-thinking-why-it-so-hard-teach

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#Science #Conservatives #Conservativism #ScientificThinking: "So sometimes, science can triumph over conservativism. But it's far more common for conservativism to trump science. The most common form of this is "eisegesis," where someone looks at a "pile of data in order to find confirmation in it of what they already 'know' to be true." Think of those anti-mask weirdos who cling to three studies that "prove" masks don't work. Or the climate deniers who have 350 studies "proving" climate change isn't real. Eisegesis proves ivermectin works, that vaccinations are linked to autism, and that water fluoridation is a Communist plot. So long as you confine yourself to considering evidence that confirms your beliefs, you can prove anything.

Respecting norms is a good rule of thumb, but it's a lousy rule. The politicization of science starts with the right's intolerance for ambiguity – not Scientific American's Harris endorsement."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/23/eisegesis/#norm-breaking

Logical Fallacies: Examples and Pitfalls in Research and Media

📚 "In public discourse, research and academic writing, logical fallacies should always be avoided because they invalidate conclusions and arguments. Unfortunately, it is easy to commit such logical fallacies ourselves."

🌐 https://research.com/research/logical-fallacies-examples

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A printable flyer [PDF] for sharing the Critical Thinking Game Design Challenge with schools & other groups is now available to download.

⭐ Please share with school design programs, indie dev groups, and anybody else who wants to help make a difference through video games (and/or wants to win the prize money).

🌐 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E7dbcc24YpRbmyiVYKNfwWIRycBWtiFP/view?usp=sharing

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What is Critical Thinking?

📚 "Critical thinking is a kind of thinking in which you question, analyse, interpret, evaluate and make a judgement about what you read, hear, say, or write.

"To become a better critical thinker, you therefore need to learn how to:

[1] Clarify your thinking purpose and context;
[2] Question your sources of information;
[3] Identify arguments;
[4] Analyse sources and arguments;
[5] Evaluate the arguments of others; and
[6] Create or Synthesise your own arguments."

🌐 https://www.monash.edu/learnhq/enhance-your-thinking/critical-thinking/what-is-critical-thinking

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Why is Critical Thinking so Hard to Teach?

📚 "Learning critical thinking skills can only take a student so far. Critical thinking depends on knowing relevant content very well and thinking about it, repeatedly. Here are five strategies, consistent with the research, to help bring critical thinking into the everyday classroom."

🌐 https://www.adlit.org/topics/comprehension/critical-thinking-why-it-so-hard-teach

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This is a fantastic thread, but not formed just by the author, but by all contributors, on how to change the way papers need to be graded in a world with #OpenAI, #Galactica, #ChatGPT, etc. Consider adding to the conversation!

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109457491248504724

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