mattotcha, to random
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Forget lung, breast or prostate cancer: why tumour naming needs to change
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00216-3 #organ

mkb, to random
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I am repeating my request for a term to describe the confluence of confirmation bias and schadenfreude.

That is, I irrationally dislike Foo, news comes out that Foo is bad in some way, then I feel smugly justified in my irrational dislike as though I knew all along.

(See Substack.)

Surely someone has already coined a term for this. @grammargirl, have you any thoughts?

pomarede, to Dragonlance
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NancyWallaceGA, to gardening

Coleus is a great summer annual in the South and here's another one that I love, especially for its name: 'Fishnet Stockings.'

Flamekebab, to random
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What is the term for this two-tone type of long-sleeved shirt?

StephenBHeard, to random
@StephenBHeard@fediscience.org avatar

"It’s OK for science to be fun. Because scientific naming is one of the creative acts in all of science, it’s one place we can have a little fun; and I’m solidly behind that." https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/wonderful-latin-names-acanthobunocephalus-scruggsi/

albertcardona,
@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz avatar

@StephenBHeard

And not only species names. Naming neurons is both tough and fun, an endless playground for puns and metaphors and aliterations to land the right words that might be pronounced in hundreds of scientific talks for years to come. “Nomenclature” is anything but boring, rather, a responsibility and an opportunity for long-lasting impact.

uselessfactsbadlydrawn, to nature
maugendre, to dataGovernance
@maugendre@hachyderm.io avatar

Actors in EU laws:
"The end user and recipient of the service are both natural and legal persons using a certain service. However, the recipient of the service can be a person acting in a personal or commercial/professional capacity whereas the end user can only be a person acting in a personal capacity."

https://www.dlapiper.com/en-gb/insights/publications/2022/08/whos-who-under-the-dma-dsa-dga-and-data-act by Heidi , a and lawyer

@data @dataGovernance

maugendre,
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