This is not a direct answer to your question, but I must add that Brian Koberlein has a fantastic blog about astronomy and astrophysics.

https://briankoberlein.com/

In particular, his series of posts on dark matter were (IMO) one of the most informative I've read

https://briankoberlein.com/201...

The title definitely sounds like an Onion article

From TFA:

“I think what turns engineers off is how pretentious Twitter seems,”

I can't speak for everyone, but I use Twitter in a similar way I'd use an RSS reader, so most of my timeline is companies or organizations. I have some friends on there, but none of them ever seem pretentious to be on there.

However, this article sounded very pretentious. Again, TFA:

“It’s a time issue,” agrees BSEE Tim Schneider, a senior staff applications engineer. “Engineers generally don’t have a lot of it. Our work is very focused and requires a lot of brainpower to get the job done.”


disclaimer - I got to this article via a Slashdot tweet, and I am an engineer :)

is irrational