{"id":10201,"date":"2016-07-15T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:58:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T14:58:47","slug":"back-to-the-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2016\/07\/15\/back-to-the-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>We share <em>Nature&#8217;<\/em>s back to the thesis videos, and some of our favorite #threewordthesis\u00a0tweets<\/h1>\n<h2><em>Last week,\u00a0Nature visited a few prominent scientists to take them back to their theses.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>First up was Francis Collins, director of the NIH, with <em>Semiclassical theory of vibrationally inelastic scattering, with application to H<sup>+<\/sup> and H<sub>2<\/sub> (1974)<\/em>. This is how it went.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Back to the thesis: Francis Collins\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3QAWyGW1DY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Next, Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT, revisits\u00a0<em>Extrasolar giant planets under strong stellar irradiation (1999). <\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Back to the thesis: Sara Seager\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fk9VdAXeZiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Finally,\u00a0Uta Frith, an autism pioneer and professor at University\u00a0College London, takes a second look at <em>Pattern detection in normal and autistic children (1968)<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Back to the thesis: Uta Frith\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f1I1h7wmYx4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The videos prompted a resurgence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23threewordthesis&amp;src=typd\">#threewordthesis <\/a>on Twitter. They ranged from the impressively accurate:<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bioorthogonally synthesizing fluorophores <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/threewordthesis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#threewordthesis<\/a> @sci_jonny <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unlchemistry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UNLChemistry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sara (@pagesandprose_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pagesandprose_\/status\/753303133804113921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LonelyProbe\/status\/751420188818493440<\/p>\n<h2>to the defeatist:<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Julie_B92\/status\/750731171756122112<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/KathieDello\/status\/751477131973005313<\/p>\n<h2>to the practical:<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/mgmakai\/status\/751450587145928704<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/henrygeenature\/status\/750647420434935808<\/p>\n<h2>to the perhaps-just-a-litte-bit-glib:<\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlySci\/status\/751081031864872962<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRubidium\/status\/750698908410458113<\/p>\n<h2>And, finally and inevitably, to the political.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScientistTrump\/status\/750782956478799874\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScientistTrump\/status\/750782956478799874<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em>Can you describe your thesis in three words? Let us know on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturejobs\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week,\u00a0Nature visited a few prominent scientists to take them back to their theses.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2016\/07\/15\/back-to-the-thesis#more-10201\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2016\/07\/15\/back-to-the-thesis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,190,289,192,323,195,339,65,199,281],"tags":[3115273,3115277,695,168,65,13,3115279,256,3115289,649,3115275,3115287,3115283,73,3115281,739,3115285],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scientistonthemove-2","category-academia-2","category-ask-the-expert","category-blog-2","category-career-paths","category-faculty-2","category-multimedia","category-phd","category-research-2","category-social-media-2","tag-threewordthesis","tag-francis-collins","tag-nature","tag-nih","tag-phd","tag-research","tag-sara-seager","tag-science","tag-scientist","tag-thesis","tag-three-word","tag-tweet","tag-tweets","tag-twitter","tag-uta-frith","tag-video","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}