The Insightful Scientist Homepage

Fulfill your DREAMS…

Harness the synergy of your passion and science to redefine what’s possible.


Our WHY


Our HOW

We train researchers, scientists, and citizen scientists in three underlying arts of scientific discovery.

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01

Apply discovery-focused scientific approaches to your workflow.

02

Uncover needed scientific insights in your work.

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03

Develop unconventional scientific creativity in your projects.


Your OPTIONS

Courses

Antique books line the aged dark wood shelves of Trinity College library in Dublin, while white marble busts of famous men sit on pedestals at the end of each row. This represents the store of knowledge, such as links and bibliographies, that you can access in the "Discovery Library" on "The Insightful Scientist" website.
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Self-paced online courses for you to hone your scientific discovery-focused approaches, scientific creativity, and scientific insights.

Insights

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Twice monthly mindset shifts, workflow tools, micro habits, and research insights, with the occasional deep dive, for you to adapt to your research.

Workshops

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Virtual and in-person trainings for you to expand you skills and leverage real-time interdisciplinary feedback on pursuing your scientific discoveries.


Our START

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Scientific Discovery For Everyone

We started as an idea and website in 2019 (at the University of Manchester, UK) and became a business in 2026 (in Honolulu, Hawai’i). Our Founder, physicist Dr. Bernadette K. Cogswell, had a dream: to make the skills needed to produce pioneering scientific discoveries open to researchers from all backgrounds, regardless of their prior training.


Our Founder UPDATES

September 8 2026:

Pardon the mess!  The website will be undergoing major renovations in preparation for launching courses and relaunching the blog. It will take about four weeks to complete the renovation. Everything on the site will remain available during that time, but it will undergo visual changes and things like the navigation bars may change.  You may also see placeholder items on pages under construction.  I appreciate your patience while things get rolled over.

September 6 2026:

For those of you on the email list you will be getting a bit blog bombed over the next few weeks. We are re-posting old posts that got lost during previous website updates and filling in the archive with old posts I never published.  This means lots of new reading material (but also frequent email notices).  It’s only temporary. Things will settle down to two posts per month by the end of October or November. In the meantime, enjoy the blasts from the past and happy reading!