#hypotheses

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

So we don't know, exactly, how most birds are related to each other

so, for fun:

vote for a recent neoavian phylogeny hypothesis

Jarvis 2014 (Columbea + Passerea)

Prum 2015 (Strisores (Columbaves (Gruiformes (Aequorlitornithes + Inopinaves))))

Suh 2016 (hard polytomy)

Reddy 2017 (Columba + Different Passerea than Jarvis)

Kuhl 2021 (too complicated for me to fit in the poll)

Braun 2021 (mirandornithes + columbimorphae + polytomy of everything else)

None of these

help I don't know what's going on

I think neoaves is gonna completely fall apart as a clade

Something else entirely I didn't account for

Voting ended onAug 23, 2023

more polls that can't get derailed

had to cut the et al for space, sorry

enjoy

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The search for patterns without critical analysis, and rigid skepticism without a search for patterns, are the antipodes of incomplete science. The effective pursuit of knowledge requires both functions...

Without these experimental tests, very few physicists would have accepted general relativity. There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brilliance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

—Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden pp 192-93 (1976)

(Robert Scott Horton)

[fieriframes]

[Naturally, I came up with a few hypotheses.]

[ghost-bxrd]

"I think I excused myself, then. Or just left without saying anything. I might have broken down in the restroom, or lost some time, because the next thing I remember is [REDACTED] hauling me to my feet and away. Telling me to get a grip, that they’re fine." Okay so if the researcher is being hauled to their feet and out of the bathroom, im going to assume it isnt Babs bc shes in a wheelchair. also [redacted] was in the same bathroom as the MR/ able to go into it so is MR male too??

also is the organisation theyre working for pre-established in canon or one invented for this fic with ppl from all over DC (im kinda guessing the latter bc you said Mr x [redacted] was a rare pair)

also² can you tell us if [redacted] is on the MR list or not??? can also include ppl removed for paradoxes

Babs didn’t start out in a wheelchair though! So this could very well be a time when she was still capable of walking.

The part where [redacted] just walks into the bathroom though is a good point! We could argue that a group of high end researchers wouldn’t have divided restrooms, but that’s neither here nor there. So over all, it could point in the direction of the MR also being male 🌊👁️

The organization is a pre established one! So it definitely exists in the DC universe. The members however could include any-/everybody 🤭

And nope sorry, not making it that easy hehe ✨ I might be coerced into doing a separate list for [redacted] tho~

[thequeenofsastiel]

I wonder if there's any data about if humans that find baby animals cuter than baby humans are less likely to reproduce. Because I just saw a post hypothesizing that the reason humans are so endeared by baby animals is because it's necessary to find baby humans cute to the point of being willing to care for them for the very long amount of time that it takes for them to become self sufficient. Much longer than most animals, for some reason that I'd be happy to have explained to me in the notes. Like, I get that it's because of the fact that we need longer for our brains to fully function, but it still feels counterintuitive. Anyway, that's the idea the poster has about human attitudes towards baby animals. Which seems like a reasonable hypothesis. So I'm just curious if people who have wires crossed in their heads that makes them find baby animals cuter than baby humans results in them being less likely to willingly reproduce. Especially women, who bear the brunt of the effort involved in reproduction. Me, for instance. Human babies are cute, sure, but they don't come close to puppies and kittens for me. And I'm entirely unwilling to rip my body apart merely for the sake of scratching an instinctive itch. I'm also not interested in adopting a baby, given that I view the notion of caring for an infant, at least for an extended period of time, to be a great burden. I know not everyone feels that way, but I do. Perhaps if I lived in a communal environment where there were lots of people helping to care for a single child I would feel differently, but as it is, if I was to have an infant, it's likely I'd be stuck with just me and one other person and like. No thank you.

What do y'all think?

[imnotreanimatingthedeaddog2]

@henrythecereal hello love 🥰 I bought you a book of poetry while I was at the bookstore today.

@lavender-lavenza cringe

[msboutofcontext]

[thinkinrandomthoughts]

If you could go back in time to the start of the human era, with no risk whatsoever, and you could witness, interact and experience whatever societies and cultures you wanted, what would be the top society you'd like to spend your time on?

This is just something I had on my mind recently and wanted to know you guys opinions on here.