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Doug Bostrom"One concept that creates misunderstanding is “scientific consensus.” It’s time to stop using this shorthand and make clear what it really means."It's confusing because encountered in as different applications we see, "consensus" is a hazardously ambigous term. A poor choice for conveying what we intend to say in this context.English is rich. There's an exact term for communicating this type of agreement: "consilience."<a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/consilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consilience</a><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ady3211?af=R" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ady3211?af=R</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience</a>

Skeptical ScienceOur latest weekly <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ClimateResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateResearch</a> roundup includes a sweet example of <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/consilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consilience</a>:"Transition from positive to negative indirect CO2 effects on the vegetation carbon uptake," Chen et al. If we observed primary productivity behaving this way out of the blue, we'd want to know why, we'd look for why and we'd end up with an explanation for why-- via <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AtmosphericGeochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AtmosphericGeochemistry</a>. Increasing CO2 concentration manifests by multiple independent paths-- in mutual agreement.<a href="https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_2024_8.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_2024_8.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks</a>

@economyandspaceOnlineFirst - "Counterfactual and consilience" by Jessie Poon:<a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GlobalProductionNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobalProductionNetwork</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/evolutionaryeconomicgeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolutionaryeconomicgeography</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/counterfactual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#counterfactual</a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/consilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#consilience</a><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231218872" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X231218872</a>

Peter Morse Studio<a href="https://aus.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a> Hi, I'm Peter - by day I'm a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Sciartist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sciartist</a>, developing different types of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Science</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Art</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Visualizations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Visualizations</a> using <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GameEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GameEngines</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fulldome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fulldome</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/XR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XR</a>. I have a PhD in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ComputationalGeophysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputationalGeophysics</a>, specialising in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DataVisualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataVisualization</a>, and another in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Semiotics</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtHistory</a>. I'm fascinated by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antarctica</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Wilderness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wilderness</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DigitalHeritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalHeritage</a> and worried about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a>, so I try and make work that explores these to aid understanding. I've made <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fulldome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fulldome</a> movies about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DarkMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DarkMatter</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AboriginalSonglines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AboriginalSonglines</a>, and experiment with novel types of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ImmersiveMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ImmersiveMedia</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HCI</a> for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Museum</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GLAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GLAM</a> applications. By night my magpie interests range across <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ml</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CognitiveNeuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CognitiveNeuroscience</a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mathstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mathstodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Consilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Consilience</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Literature</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a> - I read a lot. When I have a free moment, I'm trying to builld an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OffGrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OffGrid</a> home. Well OK, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/shack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shack</a> :) I'll approve follows if I can get an idea of who you are from your <a href="https://aus.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a>. I'd like friendly polite quality in my feed, not random quantity. That seems to be one of the best things about <a href="https://aus.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mastodon</a>! <a href="https://aus.social/tags/lists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lists</a>!

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