my career is scientific researcher i’ve got two masters degrees in my field and 8 years of full-time work under my belt i still routinely have to look up how to do certain basic conversions or key theoretical underpinnings of my work because the information just won’t stay in my brain i need to read a research article 3-5 times to grasp content well enough to converse knowledgeably about it i often find myself two pages into a scientific article and realize i’ve digestedpaid attention to none of the information presented part of that is scientific writing being boring train scientists to be more engaging writers but a lot of it is my mind skipping around in a stream-of-consciousness loop while i should be paying attention sigh