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I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?
Nim Chimpsky.
Fucking monkey pun.
And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But
BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.
Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.
There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous. The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs. And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.
Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.
And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.
Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”. We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.
You should see some (most) of the acronyms astronomers come up with. These acronyms appear in refereed journal articles, press releases, presentations…
One of the best examples is dark matter. The competing theories: MACHOs and WIMPs. Article titles include “WIMPs Wimp Out in the Search for Dark Matter” and something along the lines of “WIMPS Flexes its BICEPs” (I unfortunately cannot find the original article right now)
I know there are astronomers who are thinking about possible press releases when coming up with an acronym for their simulation/telescope/instrument/survey
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~gpetitpas/Links/Astroacro.html
Here’s a sample of some creative ones (including how did you get away with this and what were you thinking submissions)
2D-FRUTTI ARMPIT ASS (not listed in the above link) BEER BOOMERanG COME ON+ GADZOOKS! (yes, the exclamation point is meant to be included) GANDALF HIS/HERS HO-BAGS (really!?) Hot DOGs (not listed in the above link) LUCIFER MARTINI MERLIN MIRLIN PINTofALE POOPSY SAURON SCARFACE TANGOinPARIS T-RECS WISARD WISEASS WOMBAT YORIC and so, so much more
People have this idea that scientists are these sombre, sensible people, but honestly basically no one in science can be trusted to act with even a modicum of dignity.
I had a lecture this morning about using transgenic plants to create therapeutic antibodies on a large scale for medical purposes, with greater output and less risk than using mammalian cell-lines: Plantibodies. This is pretty much the standard term for them now.
Last term I learnt about a gene called TMM that causes multiple stomata to form together, stands for “Too Many Mouths”. Not “Too Many Stomata”, not “Bunched” or “Clustered” Stomata nope, “Too Many Mouths”.
Chloroplasts and mitochondria have double membranes around them, and paired, transport protein complexes that allow things to pass through them. In mitochondria these were names Translocation of the Inner Membrane proteins and Translocation of the Outer Membrane proteins…the TIM/TOM complex. When, someone discovered an equivalent for chloroplasts they decided to name them TIC and TOC because it’s sensible and certainly not as some huge joke.
There’s an Arabidopsis mutant that causes excess stamens (male organs) to develop on the flowers: Superman. An antagonistic gene was discovered, and there’s no prizes for working out that it got named Kryptonite.
This website: http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/ is dedicated primarily to stupid taxonomic names, but also covers some genes:
The gene JAK - retconned to “Janus Kinase” for publication, but originally stood for “Just Another Kinase.” “Cleopatra - The Cleopatra mutation is lethal only if Asp is also present. “ “tinman - the mutant has no heart.”
And the taxonomists are even worse. There’s a genus of snail called Turbo. Balbaroo fangaroo is a fossil kangaroo with large canines (fangaroo, urgh). “Diastolinus this and D. that Steiner, 2006 (darkling beetles) “The specific name ’this’ is from the Greek word meaning ‘shore’ or ‘beach’ in reference to the habitat of the beetle… .” D. that is named for the English pronoun, because it is found further away (inland) from D. this. [Zootaxa 1158: 24-29.] “
A protein in the RISC complex (oh yeah, folk just love catchy acronyms) was named R2D2 for moderately sensible reasons. When another protein was found that formed a part of this complex it was immediately named C3P0 of course.
My personal favorite is PNAS.
Just in case you ever forget that scientists are nerds, here’s a reminder:
SCIENTISTS ARE FUCKING NERDS WHO DO FUCKING NERDY SHIT 90-FUCKING-% OF THE FUCKING TIME
When people who are in no way experts on education give me their “expert opinion” on education.
Solid.
During the 15-hour Senate filibuster on gun control, there were 38 shootings that killed 12 people and injured 36 more across America.
That roughly translates to one shooting per every 23 minutes.
What. The. Fuck. America. That's it. Next holiday is back to Europe. Or maybe Asia, IDK.
I do not understand how she is not dead in those shoes. Like, I’m imagining the searing pain in the ball of my foot from a pair of heels half that height and twice the heel thickness. My greatest sympathies to her.
I read a thing that says sticky taping toes 3 and 4 together help. I'm yet to try it because I wear non crazy shoes to work.
The kettle is hot
I’M LAUGHING SO HARD
I still can’t figure out why Terry Crews bothered with a career in football before acting.
The world wasn’t ready for him yet, that’s why
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When My Uncle, who’s completely deaf, was about 17, he got in a heated argument with my great aunt, his mother. They were furiously signing back and forth. Suddenly they both stopped and started laughing and laughing. My great aunt had accidentally signed, “Don’t you yell at me.”
If I witnessed that Bruh omg 😭😭😭😭😭😭
“Use your inside hands!”
USE YOUR INSIDE HANDS IM
What a world it would be if everyone was fluent in sign language!
I clicked on to my own tumblr page and I had forgotten. I knew my profile pic was of Face Biscuits I made in Dublin so they distance between me and my family didn't feel so large. But I had forgotten the cover pic was of my backyard in Broken Hill. This was my first view that was... Just. Mine. And one day that view was of fog and it felt like everything was yet to render and my future seemed close yet unknowable. Then I made a post about how Broken Hill looked like Silent Hill because who talks about futures? Looking back at it now, I couldn't have guessed that I'd be offered a permanent job in less than a year. That I'd spend this year fighting for my colleagues when principals don't know if they can create positions for them because our funding agreements have been abandoned by the current government. Seeing that fog snaps the current view in to focus. Two visions. Clear as day. One where education prospers and the other with Australia continuing to slide down the international league tables while politicians blame me and my hard-working colleagues who put up with no running water and less and less resources. How am I to teach the future genwration to innovate when I can't give them experiences to help them grow and question what they see? Looks like that future is getting foggy again.
Ow that hurt
Bigots are afraid of calculus too now.
TSA now screens for fucking nerds.