Anne Scheel

@annemscheel.bsky.social

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Assistant prof at Utrecht University, trying to make science as reproducible as non-scientists think it is. Blogs at @the100ci.

Photo of part of a book page reading: “What kind of science was this, Thoreau asked, 'which enriches the understanding, but robs the imagination'? This was what Humboldt had written about in Cosmos. Nature, Humboldt explained, had to be described with scientific accuracy but without being 'deprived thereby of the vivifying breath of imagination'. Knowledge did not 'chill the feelings' because the senses and the intellect were connected. More than any other, Thoreau followed Humboldt's belief in the 'deeply-seated bond' that united knowledge and poetry. Humboldt allowed Thoreau to weave”
A picture of Upton Sinclair with his famous quote “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”; mirrored horizontally with an adapted quote by “Downton Sinclair”, saying “It is easy to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his understanding it!”
Same scene as before, but now with two cats cuddled up against each other
Curled-up cat on a sofa next to a person wrapped in a blanket with a laptop on their knees