Statler: “What’s the theme of this conference?”
Waldorf: “Interdisciplinarity.”
Statler: “Ah… so everyone’s confused together.”
“Ohhh hohohohoho!!”
Waldorf: “Interdisciplinarity.”
Statler: “Ah… so everyone’s confused together.”
“Ohhh hohohohoho!!”
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Statler: “What’s the theme of this conference?”
Waldorf: “Interdisciplinarity.”
Statler: “Ah… so everyone’s confused together.”
“Ohhh hohohohoho!!”
Waldorf: “Interdisciplinarity.”
Statler: “Ah… so everyone’s confused together.”
“Ohhh hohohohoho!!”
I love interdisciplinarity
March 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I love interdisciplinarity
"Crossfit" denotes interdisciplinarity, does it not?
September 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
"Crossfit" denotes interdisciplinarity, does it not?
“Employability … interdisciplinarity”? Have our unis stopped believing in education?
Jude Manning reports.
Read it here:
https://michaelwest.com.au/employability-interdisciplinarity-have-our-unis-stopped-believing-in-education/
Jude Manning reports.
Read it here:
https://michaelwest.com.au/employability-interdisciplinarity-have-our-unis-stopped-believing-in-education/
June 19, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“Employability … interdisciplinarity”? Have our unis stopped believing in education?
Jude Manning reports.
Read it here:
https://michaelwest.com.au/employability-interdisciplinarity-have-our-unis-stopped-believing-in-education/
Jude Manning reports.
Read it here:
https://michaelwest.com.au/employability-interdisciplinarity-have-our-unis-stopped-believing-in-education/
Interdisciplinarity is important bc it’s good to go from feeling very smart to barely competent constantly throughout the day 😅
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Interdisciplinarity is important bc it’s good to go from feeling very smart to barely competent constantly throughout the day 😅
Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?
July 20, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?
It has everything! Immediate, fast-paced, up-to-the-minute connections between theory and technological implementation! Extreme interdisciplinarity (deep, fascinating connections to both weird phases of matter AND quantum gravity)! Really neat quantum math (well, neat for me, anyway)!
July 9, 2026 at 7:25 PM
It has everything! Immediate, fast-paced, up-to-the-minute connections between theory and technological implementation! Extreme interdisciplinarity (deep, fascinating connections to both weird phases of matter AND quantum gravity)! Really neat quantum math (well, neat for me, anyway)!
Just a reminder, for no one particular reason and not at all necessarily inspired by any real events, that "interdisciplinarity" does not just mean "which other flavours of STEM can we partner with."
September 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Just a reminder, for no one particular reason and not at all necessarily inspired by any real events, that "interdisciplinarity" does not just mean "which other flavours of STEM can we partner with."
The "Bauhaus Stage" fused visual arts, architecture, and theater 🎭 #Interdisciplinarity #Bauhaus
January 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The "Bauhaus Stage" fused visual arts, architecture, and theater 🎭 #Interdisciplinarity #Bauhaus
I'm applying to professorships in both Fairy Tales, and Robotics Innovation.
September 14, 2026 at 8:25 AM
I'm applying to professorships in both Fairy Tales, and Robotics Innovation.
Excellent interdisciplinarity :)
November 29, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Excellent interdisciplinarity :)
Hey you know what's really cool about interdisciplinarity, as a practice rather than just a buzzword? Sometimes you do delving into another field and find absolute gems for your project that you wouldn't have if you didn't.
Musicology, I love you. You bring me joy.
Musicology, I love you. You bring me joy.
June 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hey you know what's really cool about interdisciplinarity, as a practice rather than just a buzzword? Sometimes you do delving into another field and find absolute gems for your project that you wouldn't have if you didn't.
Musicology, I love you. You bring me joy.
Musicology, I love you. You bring me joy.
I think actually we should encourage interdisciplinarity and astronomy has a history of welcoming outsiders to help us solve computational problems especially but this is why it’s important for peer review to work correctly. If you’re new to a discipline, submit to standard journals in *that* field.
Beware natural scientists doing social science
You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse
You wouldn't trust an economist doing physics or chemistry or astronomy. So don't trust the reverse
There is a growing problem of big name natural-science journals publishing social science that is "problematic".
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
This reflects a inability to accept the statistical standards and skills in social science are often much much higher than in many areas of the natural sciences.
(I'm a chemist btw).
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I think actually we should encourage interdisciplinarity and astronomy has a history of welcoming outsiders to help us solve computational problems especially but this is why it’s important for peer review to work correctly. If you’re new to a discipline, submit to standard journals in *that* field.
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
Carolingian Biodiversity
How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work
buttondown.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity
"I filed in and out of classes on 'Interdisciplinarity'". The corporatisation of university - a student perspective by Jude Manning
#auspol #AI #education
michaelwest.com.au/employabilit...
#auspol #AI #education
michaelwest.com.au/employabilit...
"Employability ... interdisciplinarity"? Have our unis stopped believing in education? - Michael West
Our universities have become corporations, focused on the bottom line, while spending big on consultants and exorbitant executive salaries.
michaelwest.com.au
June 19, 2026 at 8:14 PM
"I filed in and out of classes on 'Interdisciplinarity'". The corporatisation of university - a student perspective by Jude Manning
#auspol #AI #education
michaelwest.com.au/employabilit...
#auspol #AI #education
michaelwest.com.au/employabilit...
interdisciplinarity works when you work with colleagues or at least try to get a handle on how another discipline works.
have some standards, friends.
have some standards, friends.
December 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
interdisciplinarity works when you work with colleagues or at least try to get a handle on how another discipline works.
have some standards, friends.
have some standards, friends.
Interesting thoughts about provincialism of depts that makes difficult to hire, support, & retain faculty whose research spans multiple fields. I have felt this as an #HPS scholar in trad philo dept. An alt partial solution not mentioned is creating HPSTM depts whose mission is interdisciplinarity.
University hiring must be centrally organized around interdisciplinarity | Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
www.bu.edu
March 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Interesting thoughts about provincialism of depts that makes difficult to hire, support, & retain faculty whose research spans multiple fields. I have felt this as an #HPS scholar in trad philo dept. An alt partial solution not mentioned is creating HPSTM depts whose mission is interdisciplinarity.
Really interesting. I wonder if what this post on interdisciplinarity is missing, though, is a distinction between "multidisciplinary" and "interdisciplinary". This has been made several times in the background literature. I remember it in Joe Morgan's book, INTERDISCIPLINARITY.
July 10, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Really interesting. I wonder if what this post on interdisciplinarity is missing, though, is a distinction between "multidisciplinary" and "interdisciplinary". This has been made several times in the background literature. I remember it in Joe Morgan's book, INTERDISCIPLINARITY.
In this session we are discussing mental ill health, interdisciplinarity and the humanities - with @felicitycallard.bsky.social Ed Kiely, Cheryl McGeachan and Chris Philo. Come along .. sign up! This Wednesday..
Geography, Interdisciplinarity and the Humanities
This session presents and discusses ideas relating to the themes of mental (ill-)health geographies, interdisciplinarity and the humanities.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
In this session we are discussing mental ill health, interdisciplinarity and the humanities - with @felicitycallard.bsky.social Ed Kiely, Cheryl McGeachan and Chris Philo. Come along .. sign up! This Wednesday..
Every time an institution merges units it says it's to "foster interdisciplinarity"
Have you ever seen such a perfect example of vacuous consultant-speak?
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Every time an institution merges units it says it's to "foster interdisciplinarity"
One more barrier to interdisciplinarity? 🤔
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Fascinating new paper shows that when researchers “pivot” to new areas of work the outcome is less impactful.
#ScienceOfScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#ScienceOfScience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The pivot penalty in research - Nature
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their prev...
www.nature.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
One more barrier to interdisciplinarity? 🤔
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Here I am chatting about science, philosophy, language, and academia with @taliasherman.bsky.social on the Tomayto Tomahto podcast.
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Sean Carroll on Theoretical Physics and Interdisciplinarity
open.spotify.com
March 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Here I am chatting about science, philosophy, language, and academia with @taliasherman.bsky.social on the Tomayto Tomahto podcast.
open.spotify.com/episode/0rnL...
open.spotify.com/episode/0rnL...
cancel interdisciplinarity
March 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
cancel interdisciplinarity
Ah interdisciplinarity. That is/was so 2021.
September 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ah interdisciplinarity. That is/was so 2021.