Ok, here it is: 1/🧵
Replying to @lpachter
Great thread. Now do the things you do like :)

Nov 22, 2025 · 10:09 PM UTC

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12
2
73
35,736
"chalk" talk, i.e. talk at a whiteboard or blackboard with no slides.
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1
31
3,374
That professor who goes to bat for the assistant professor behind the scenes when they are up for tenure. Not always the case, but frequently there is >=1.
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20
2,629
Single author papers.
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23
2,612
Github repositories that have the code for a paper in a form that it can easily be run (ideally on Google Colab or similar) and with data accessible and metadata properly annotated.
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1
29
2,529
Sepakers who end on time.
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17
2,374
Meetings with an agenda.
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21
2,341
Government funding.
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1
21
2,495
Gradaute students, undergraduate students, and postdocs.
1
27
2,277
Free food at seminars.
1
25
2,247
Donors who support fundamental research no strings attached. There are such people and they are a gift to humanity.
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1
32
3,424
Correct proofs.
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12
2,179
Cross-validation.
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12
2,138
"I don't know" as an answer to a question.
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1
38
2,160
Speakers that explain, carefully, all the data / figures on their slides.
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19
2,138
Conferences where hotels are reasonably priced, participants can arrive without much hassle, where childcare is provided and where the goal is science not vacation paid for by taxpayers.
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1
26
2,199
Scientists who cite all the papers relevant to the work their work and nothing else.
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19
4,619
Collaborations where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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28
4,477