• Question: do you enjoy teaching others about your work? if so what could you teach me?

    Asked by lucy to Steven on 15 Jun 2015.
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      Steven Thomson answered on 15 Jun 2015:


      Teaching is one of my favourite things I get to do as part of my job. I teach all sorts of things, mostly physics and maths, all the way from high-school tutoring to Masters-level research students.

      Teaching you the details of my research would probably take years, but the most important lesson I could teach is that you should question everything. Be sceptical, don’t be afraid to think for yourself, and don’t believe anything that there isn’t evidence for. That’s how to think like a scientist!

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