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Tackman Babcock
@tackmanbabcock.bsky.social
Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc. Tangata Tiriti, NZ
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good lord yes. It's freakishly embarrassing that we produce graduates in science who cannot talk coherently about the demarcation problem, or logical positivism, or Popper or Kuhn let alone have a meaningful critique of any of these. Also: intentional, cynical fomenting of STEM vs nonSTEM tribalism.

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If graduates arent able to see & hold perspectives on the hollowing out of the Arts / aren't aware of the forces and incentives stripping out critiques of both how science operates and "what science is and isn't", we'll have glorified industrial training & no insights to solve the problems we face.

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Tackman Babcock
@tackmanbabcock.bsky.social
Recovering from blinders of STEM, neoliberalism & fundamentalism. Enjoy film, sci-fi, literary nonfiction, feminism, philosophy, cats. Wish: dismantle reactionary targeting of trans people, Māori, Muslims, Jewish people, etc. Tangata Tiriti, NZ
181 followers176 following1k posts