Thomas Hunt Morgan was born OTD in 1866. If you're ever feeling that your work is uending and unedifying, remember that he once said this: "Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it." 🌱🐋🧪 #HistSTM

Can childhood and education affect our scientific creativity in adulthood? The September 2026 research spotlight examines that this month. Read about Dean Simonton’s paper on treating scientific creativity combinatorially. #creativity #science #research insightfulscientist.com/blog/2026/ca...

Can Childhood and Personality Affect Our Scientific Creativity?

Have you ever wondered why some scientists seem to generate research-worthy ideas on cue while others struggle to come up with just one?   It’s as if they both went to the same game arcade, bu…

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The September 2026 blog post is live. Check it out! This month’s theme is scientific creativity. insightfulscientist.com/blog/2026/fo...

Four Little Shifts to Notice Your Scientific Creativity

Our days can be a stream of never-ending emotional busywork and social obligations. Meetings, emails, and time-sensitive demands from others fill our digital inboxes.  Requests for help, guidance, …

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Fascinating reading. We hope to see more needed studies like these. #scisci #metasci #academicsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New tools drive scientific discovery: evidence from all nobel-prize and major non-nobel breakthroughs - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - New tools drive scientific discovery: evidence from all nobel-prize and major non-nobel breakthroughs

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