@matt:

Who decides what counts as knowledge?

Transition story:

“Imagine you spend six months measuring the thermal conductivity of a material at 10,000 temperature points. Beautiful data. Very hard work. Then your advisor asks: so what? That sounds cruel, but they are really asking: what does this help our community understand that we could not understand before?”

Key point:

• Knowledge is not only a wall of stable facts.
• A result becomes professional knowledge when a reader community sees how it changes what they can understand, predict, build, or decide.