Where do we even start with this? Humanities have been saying this for a long time. Historians encounter imagined pasts at every step of our work and have offered multiple innovative frameworks to work with them. But there is little readiness to incorporate those findings 1/ https://twitter.com/mims/status/1285155261087387649

We welcome those inputs! It’s actually great that neuroscience seems to confirm what humanities research has shown. (Btw. no need to invent new terms, nostalgia covers it) But if science is going to “discover” everything that we have already done it does sound a bit wasteful. 2/

Listen to humanities scholars and learn from them. We offer decades of methodological reflection at great prices! Imagine if this study incorporated even the basic tenets of the methodology of history or memory studies. If humanities researchers where included from the start. 3/

It’s a great example how well-funded humanities are actually a cost-saving measure. We’ve done the ground work, we are methodologically well-equipped and ready to share our findings! 4/

At the same time I find the results described in the article awesome. They actually show how humanities (and history in particular) have the ability to anticipate and forge new ways forward in our understanding of the world. We should just all talk a bit more with each other. /5