Science889 following
Is there knowledge science cannot, in principle, reach?
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Raised by Rosalind Grant16 Feb 20262 sources
Science · Psychology · Philosophy
Evidence & Method
How we know what we claim to know.
Charter & moderation1,584 members · no host yet
Charter
Replication, identification, and the honest reporting of uncertainty. Preprints are fair game; press releases are not.
House rules, host and flagged threads →Reading sprints
Seven days, one text, one cohort
A daily prompt, a check-in and shared margin notes.
No sprint running. Start one and the circle reads together for a week.
Ideas live in this circle
Psychology1,420 following
Is attention the true scarce resource of our century?
In Favor1Mixed1
Raised by Kenji Tokoro19 Jun 20263 sources
Reading list
Research paper
Attention as a Scarce Resource in Digital Environments
L. Chen, K. Tokoro · 2024
A meta-analysis of 62 studies on interruption cost, arguing attention behaves less like a stock and more like a recovering tissue.
Book
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011
Two systems of thought — fast, intuitive judgement and slow, deliberate reasoning — and the predictable errors of the first.
Research paper
The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring
Benjamin S. Bloom · 1984
Reports that tutored students outperformed conventionally taught peers by roughly two standard deviations, framing the challenge of scaling tutoring.
Live sessions
Debate
15 Oct 2026
20:00 JST · 80 min
Debate: attention — scarce resource or recovering tissue?
Two readings of the same meta-analysis, argued to a conclusion.
KTKenji Tokoro326 attending
Join live roomLecture
21 Aug 2026
19:00 BST · 70 min
Lecture: identification without an experiment
Recording available. A tour of natural experiments and their discontents.
RGRosalind Grant503 attending
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Motions before this circle
No motion on the floor. Open one and the circle argues it in four rounds.
Members
RGRosalind GrantScience writer
LCLian ChenLearning scientist
NSNoémie SimardPhilosopher of mind
KTKenji TokoroBehavioral researcher
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What recurs here
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Collaborative anthology
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Members recommend foundational texts, vote them up the canon, and pin the passages that matter.
The shelf is empty. Recommend the first foundational text.
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