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How simplified knowledge sharing distorts academic work

I publish research papers that three people will read, but I spend hours crafting tweets about my work that hundreds of people will see and misunderstand.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to make specialized knowledge accessible forces compression that fundamentally alters the information being communicated.

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