@norikawa anthropologists: *literally shooting at each other*

paleontologists: *doing the fistfighting and cackling thing*

archaeologists: yeah whatever, now will you please STOP BUILDING SHOPPING MALLS over the ruins of ancient cities, THANKS

@norikawa *Cries in Statistician*

@norikawa Sociologists: *start to cry*

@norikawa
"Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?"

"We study the extent to which eminent scientists shape the vitality of their areas of scientific inquiry by examining entry rates into the subfields of 452 academic life scientists who pass away prematurely.
....
Overall, our results suggest that once in control of the commanding heights of their fields, star scientists tend to hold on to their exalted position a bit too long."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w21788

@norikawa Biologists: "Wait I got turned around and forgot what the question was"

@norikawa fucksake inorganic and organic chemists can't even agree who organometallics belong to 😅

@norikawa The humanities, body of birds and heads of beautiful women: We're not so different, you and I

@norikawa
Biologists: *too busy brawling in the parking lot over taxonomy to hear the statement*

@norikawa
I'm literally, at this moment, reading a smackdown of minimalist grammar by a cabal of constraint based grammar advocating japanese linguists.
Its pretty heckin real.

@norikawa the difference between scientism and science. :)

@norikawa
Statisticians: *currently dueling with slide rules over how to model their laughter*

@norikawa not even mathematicians have consensus on everything

@norikawa software engineers: *screams and yells at each other’s programming choices, while a bunch of js people are sobbing in a corner because their internet is not good enough to download the 1 GB node_modules needed for their hello world application*