yeah, as an academic, I find writing blog posts to be much more pleasant and enjoyable than writing scientific papers. Part of the reason for that is that scientific papers are much more technical and rigorous, and you are expected to back up all your claims in order to pass peer review.
The flipside, of course, is that I trust blog posts a lot less than scientific papers, my own posts included. I still think more academics should have a go at blogging though, it can help bridge the gap between the technical work and the public.
Both blog posts and papers clearly have a lot of different tradeoffs.
I think that many academics feel much more comfortable with the specific peer review processes that take place in their field, than they would many online discussion forums.
At the same time, some of the reverse is true as well.
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yeah, as an academic, I find writing blog posts to be much more pleasant and enjoyable than writing scientific papers. Part of the reason for that is that scientific papers are much more technical and rigorous, and you are expected to back up all your claims in order to pass peer review.
The flipside, of course, is that I trust blog posts a lot less than scientific papers, my own posts included. I still think more academics should have a go at blogging though, it can help bridge the gap between the technical work and the public.
Yea, sorry, this was short.
Both blog posts and papers clearly have a lot of different tradeoffs.
I think that many academics feel much more comfortable with the specific peer review processes that take place in their field, than they would many online discussion forums.
At the same time, some of the reverse is true as well.