I just realised, they used my words in the medical certificate/report.

I am not entirely sure how I feel about that.

So if you are wondering how I'll be spending the weekend...

It's obsessing over something that may or may not be important.

You know - the usual.

And...

As it turns out, it matches one of my favourite old t-shirts I randomly picked to wear today.

So, as it IS #caturday, I felt I should include it!

#ScienceSaturday #SciComm #ActuallyAutistic

Did you know that statistically speaking:

The number of skulls inside the human body, averaged globally, is > 1?

#SciComm #ScienceSaturday

Ce que l'on Sait du Lien entre Sommeil et Anxiété :

#FollowFriday #ScienceSaturday #SelfCareSunday
#WellnessWednesday #MastodonSanté​

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/quantum-teleportation-computing-supercomputer-oxford-b2693889.html?utm_source=reddit.com #science #uplifting #sciencesaturday #quantum

The Matrix got just one thing wrong... while it was the humans who were responsible, it was the AI itself that boiled the oceans and burnt the skies.

The humans were just not smart enough to stop trying to get it to write their emails (badly) #responsibleai #saturdaymood
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

#artificialintelligence #ai #thematrix #scifimovies #scifi #computing #science #sciencesaturday #globalwarming #climatechange #ClimateAction #datascience #fiction

#ScienceSaturday

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-16/james-webb-telescope-reveals-young-star/102864628?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

Some thoughts on the nomenclature of nomenclature

Most of us remember being taught in high school biology that “scientific names” (or “binomial names”) for species are better than “common names” because the latter change all the time and there are multiple names for the same species. For those of us who continue with biology or botany or a related field, there comes a time when one of our favorite species is determined to belong to a different genus or even an entirely different family, and it’s “scientific” name changes, while the common name stays the same.

For me, the first occurrence of this was late lowbush blueberry, which I originally learned as Vaccinium vacillans and which now has a preferred name of Vaccinium pallidum. Amusingly, if you look at the Wikipedia page for this species, you will see half a dozen common names (including both early and late lowbush blueberry) but you will also see more than a dozen different taxonomic classifications!

Now part of this is that species are named in different parts of the world and later determined to be the same species, or plants initially determined to be separate species are later classified as varieties of the same species. Or vice versa!
Over the course of the last couple of decades, genomic studies made possible by modern DNA sequencing have resulted in countless species being renamed, reorganized, and reclassified. So how do we explain this concept to aspiring biologists?

I think the difficulty arises from using the phrase “scientific name”. Outside of biology, we think of a name as a relatively static label that makes it easy to refer to a concept or object. Names are easy to remember and provide a way for multiple people to refer to the same concept. Scientific or binomial names fail to meet many of the criteria for what makes a good name. They are rarely made up of words in common living human languages, they are often long and difficult to remember or pronounce, and they change in unexpected ways.

Binomial “names” are better thought of as addresses. Addresses in a complex classification space, but still addresses. Just as an Internet address helps us locate a resource in Internet space by telling us what protocol to use to connect to a computer at a specific fully qualified domain and the path to the resource we are looking for, with a genus and specific epithet like Vaccinium pallidum (Aiton 1789), we can locate the species in classification space. The authority (Aiton 1789) tells us where to go for the original classification information, the specific epithet (pallidum) sometimes gives us a hint about a physical characteristic (in this case relating to the color of the leaves) relative to other species, the genus (Vaccinium) places this species in the family Ericaceae, the heath plants, which share similar characteristics.

While a “name” is just what we call something, the scientific “address” tells us where the species currently resides within the complex classification space of kingdom, clade, order, family, and genus.

Many of us change our addresses more often than we change our names, and species are no different. As we uncover new genetic commonalities or differences among species, we reorganize our information space and give them new addresses.

So while the species formerly located at Ericaceae Vaccinium vaccilans may now have moved in classification space to Ericaceae Vaccinium pallidum, it’s still just late lowbush blueberry to me.

#ScienceSaturday

Forschung für Bürger
Nutzen der Wissenschaft
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Wetter, Erdbeben und noch viel mehr. Interessant in Forschung zu stöbern.

https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ueber-uns/mission

Grundlagenforschung ist eine Gemeinschaftsaufgabe und dient allen.

#OurTax€

https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/gs/ueber-uns/meteo/aktuelle-wetterdaten/wetterdaten

#Forschung #Wissenschaft #Forschungszentrum #Jülich #Wetter #Erdbeben #Köln
#Politik #julich #aachen #nrw
#wissenschaftssamstag
#sciencesaturday
#Science #Research #ClimateCrisis

I thought most climatologists rejected Wind chill temperatures? Any informed views on #ScienceSaturday?
Coldest wind chill ever recorded in continental US, say forecasters https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64485092

@jeffgilchrist I was wondering recently where all the science on #johnmastadon had gone. Nice to see some today. #ScienceSaturday ?

So, und weil hier bei mir heute *anscheinend* #sciencesaturday ist noch schnell ein toller #Podcasttipp: #Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, speziell die Episode vom 25.12.2022 (“Ein Jahr Weltraumteleskop — #JamesWebb, der #Urknall und der ganze Rest”)

https://pca.st/episode/0fc9b9ba-20aa-4870-b58a-deeeddea1f8c

Science vs Pseudoscience

#science #sciencesaturday #logic

I might have had more fun than the kids with this easy surface tension demonstration. Only needed a few items we had on hand! #ScienceSaturday

Great read on the end of the age of dinosaurs and how life, including mammals adapted and took over the planet, setting the stage for us to take over and potentially ruin it #books #dinosaurs #reading #paleontology #sciencesaturday

It's #ScienceSaturday friends ⚛️

I think my favourite story from this week is about another fast radio burst being discovered in deep space -- it's one of the most extreme yet and it might make us rethink about how these signals travel to Earth.

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/most-extreme-fast-radio-burst-yet-deepens-the-mystery-of-signals-from-deep-space/

RT @Jcsimmo@twitter.com: Created a detailed anatomical map of the human body in the style of the london underground @ZDoggMD@twitter.com @MDKev@twitter.com #ScienceSaturday #anatomy