I am an *actual* social scientist who has done work on resilience and achievement as opposed to a neuroscientist speculating in flippant simplicity and I have lived through long-term dramatic disruption and I am marrying a neuroscientist so I can say, with full force: BAD TAKE https://twitter.com/Medium/status/1304195214307987457

This in-group out-group take..............I cannot. You people in neuro need to get your people.

I kind of try to hold back on the snark about fields and pop authors etc but this is just distasteful. People are in crisis and some of us have devoted our lives to trying to understand and make that better and they just keep getting the money and platforms and get out of the WAY

As long as we're all here (in hell), let's talk about resilience. Because it's my favorite thing, my guiding light, my little brother driving home from fires to work in the covid ward in a hospital, it is what I wake up for.

And I learn about it from social science.

To say we "need" novelty because ~fully abstracted brain thing~ in 2020 is...bizarre when you could talk about the work on how we NEED community, support, how stress can be mitigated and transformed by our hope in each other, how healing and repair can happen after crisis. DOES.

Maybe bored folks treating the brain like a four-piece lego set a million times over need some novelty; I need the hard work of thinking about real change. How we heal trauma, and build adaptive beliefs, and connect to each other and keep going. And THAT is social science.