Jens Peter Andersen

@ipoga.bsky.social

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Senior researcher: bibliometrics, policy impact, scientific elites & quant studies of gender in research at Aarhus University. #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience

Photo of text reading: “Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by”