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You can email them and they are usually quite happy to talk. Of course not when they get a media storm like these people. But I regularly correspond with exper
by noosphr 1y ago
You can email them and they are usually quite happy to talk.
Of course not when they get a media storm like these people. But I regularly correspond with experts in adjacent fields who have interesting papers put out.
- touisteur 1y agoCan confirm that most of the times when reproducing/implementing a paper or trying to extend it to another field, researchers are pretty OK (some very enthusiastic) to chat over email about it. As long as you've actually read the paper(s) or read the code (if any), and there's no expected free-work... I sometimes get unpublished artefacts (matlab/python/fortran code, data samples) just by... asking nicely, showing interest. And I'm not even in academia or a lab.
- nick__m 1y agoIn my sample of 1 with cold email to a researcher was that they are enthusiastic when someone has read their paper and ask relevant questions. I don't remember the paper subject neither the researcher name (more than 20yr ago) but I remember that she was an ornitologist, the subject was quite niche and the response I received to my questions was longer than the article that prompted me to asks them.