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Evolutionary biologist | PhD candidate at UGent & INBO working on weird parasitic fungi on ladybirds🐞🍄 | Endless freeform jazz most beautiful
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In my field, the parasitic Cordyceps fungus has horrified but intrigued millions through a single piece of footage from David Attenborough. This means that funders know what it is, and are willing to spend money in research, and labs benefit. (Also, I'm willing to bet the Last of Us exists because)
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Beyond science literacy being a good in itself, there's also the practical reason of funding; money in science is scarce enough as it is, but if your subject is unknown or too "fundamental" (i.e. not with immediate applications), good luck.
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Somewhat recently on an urban ecology tour (here in Belgium), one of the participants specifically talked about your book with regards to her change of mind of pigeons, so it's definitely reaching!
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particularly in fields like biology and astronomy, where data is relatively easy to collect by a layperson.
Replies here are very bitter, from pure capitalism ("to get views/money") to amateurism ("they tend to be wrong"). Science can't exist without engaging the masses, you need pop science.
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I'm surprised at your point 3: as an example, citizen science has seen a *huge* uptick over the past few decades, which is part technology, part accessibility, but absolutely part pop science. There's good examples of citizen science improving the world around us -
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Actually, considering, probably another antagonist starting with Z right now
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That enemy? Zorro
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Whenever I play these games my desk looks like a serial killer
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yeah and it offsets the sometimes frustrating draft rng really well
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a large part of the game i played in conjunction with friends which is a great way to not get annoyed and still solve the puzzles, super fun
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Found some more again!
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Found some more again!
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Found some more!
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Survived the ghosts
Next: vampires
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Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) on the statue of the Scheldt and Lexie rivers anthropomorphized (the man and woman) and all the little streams that cross between them (the children)
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my youtube feed synced up nicely