S3E2 - Academia and Failure

We discuss what failure means in the context of academic research: how we learn when our research goes in unexpected directions, publishing negative results, dealing with imposter syndrome and peer reviewers, and learning from our mistakes.

• Recommendations

• Tech Won't Save Us Podcast https://techwontsave.us/episode/189_elon_musk_unmasked_origins_of_an_oligarch_part_1

• The Rest is History- Baghdad https://therestishistory.com/378-baghdad-the-golden-age/

• Longitudinal evidence that infants develop their imitation abilities by being imitated https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223011648

• The conservative vision of liberal education in India https://caravanmagazine.in/education/ashoka-university-private-universities-caste-sabyasachi-das

• Intermediate levels of scientific knowledge are associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes towards science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01677-8

• Data and Power: Deconstructing Surveillance, Tufts University https://ricknabb.medium.com/data-and-power-deconstructing-surveillance-week-1-cff5517c21e2

• White Noise: White Noise is the definitive inside story of the alt-right

• A Nobel prize for failure https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2012/oct/09/neuroscience

• Dr. Kariko's interview https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html