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Tom Tagoe @Tom_DAT

Neuroscientist, Science communicator & Co-founder @GhScientific. It's all STEM, God, Basketball and Family #neuroscienceinafrica

Joined September 2013
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🚀 Big week for #GhanaSTEM! From new biotech labs and AI innovation challenges to expanded digital‑skills programmes—Ghana is accelerating its STEM future. Read the full highlights 👉 [ghscientific.com/ghana-stem-…]
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There are some things that many people consider common knowledge. Often this may only be common knowledge to people within a specific field and outsiders are largely ignorant.
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Q: So if the position of author names carries so much weight, how do academics ever agree on this? A: Well, ideally, this should all be agreed upon before work begins. This way, everyone knows their pre-determined position so they can put in the amount of effort that matches
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Alternatively you can leave the decision up to the “boss”, but I do not advise this unless there is full trust that they will make the decision that is in everyone's best interest.
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There are many things you know, but once you experience it, your depth of knowledge takes a whole new meaning. Take this one: “The less you know, the more you think you know.”
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Alongside this you will also constantly engage with people who are more confident and those who are less confident than yourself. It is always a positive interaction when competence matches confidence of not.
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All this to say the general rule is, ALWAYS leave room for error. If you think with this statement I just broke my own rule, well I have the competence to share with absolute confidence on this matter……or maybe not and I am another unknowing victim of the Duning-Kruger Effect.
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Every now and again it is worth being reminded that research is hard and neuroscience research is a different breed of hard, especially if you are doing this in Ghana. This all seems like an obvious reality, so I guess the real reminder is "Do Hard Things"
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Tom Tagoe@Tom_DAT
15 Nov 2025
Thankfully I came for the science and not the weather. #Sfn2025
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