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Thirteen tips for engaging with physicists, as told by a biologist

Working alongside physicists made me a better science communicator, says Ken Kosik, and helped me to clarify knowledge gaps in my own field.
  1. Ken Kosik

    1. Kenneth S. Kosik is a professor of neuroscience at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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As a physician–scientist, many of my colleagues were surprised when I moved my laboratory from the Boston Longwood campus at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Massachusetts to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where there is neither a medical school nor a university-affiliated hospital.

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Nature 577, 281-283 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03960-z

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