Dissertations as tweets

Something light(er)-weight for the weekend – an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from The New Yorker.

It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing:

A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can’t imagine the field without the problem.

The name we’ve been using for this stuff is anachronistic. Here’s a better name.

It’s a bit like the seven plots theory in literature…

🙂

Magda