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Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827 https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/ also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
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Rare welly-footed hooded seagull on Swanage beach

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This is a rather hastily written post on the announcement of the Synthetic Human Genomone Project by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social - but there were some #metaphors to be observed! blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

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Behind Spain's blackout: 'Conventional generators (mostly gas-fired) failed to supply grid-balancing services they’d been paid for'. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Synthetic human genome project! BBC News - Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch www.bbc.com/news/article...

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One thing that makes humans remarkable is baby talk. And that might be one reason why we have language. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/4k5duXd

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Hiding in the shade, poor things

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It happened: the Trump regime just deleted NOAA's climate information site, which was a great global resource.

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Are you working in #VisualMedicalHumanities with a specific focus on art, anatomy and medicine? The BMJ Medical Humanities has just released this CFP for articles on "visuality in medical practice and history". Looking forward to seeing how this moves the field forward! mh.bmj.com/pages/topic-...

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"Alles Verstehen ist […] zugleich ein Nicht-Verstehen" #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes

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Can't resist!

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The alps have warmed extremely - as can be seen here in the data from #Innsbruck. Warm years are dominant since the 90s, cold years disappear. Massive glacier melting is only one consequence. Weather Obs started very early here, Maria Theresa was still alive. #showyourstripes #climateaction

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Former NIH director Francis Collins speaks out about why he left NIH: “I didn’t feel I could raise alarms about the harms that were being done to medical research. I was prohibited from speaking about it.” #medsky www.aamc.org/news/former-...

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Just found a nice definition of #metaphor which I hadn't seen before: "Metaphor is one of our most important tools for trying to comprehend partially what cannot be comprehended totally"! wisewords.blog/book-summari...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The heat above 32°C in southeast England tomorrow will be 100 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven warming 🌡️📈 Our super rapid study was published this morning. It is just the second time we’ve studied an event in real-time, using forecast data. It's been hot work. 🧵

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After the barrage of illiberalism in recent times, this vote on assisted dying - following the vote on late abortions - is welcome. The starting point for such significant decisions should always be with the individual where possible, and not the State imposing its view on the individual.

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Good thread on how the questions of philosophy at any given moment tend to spill out into their own disciplinary territory. Suspect there are metaphysical questions asked by some branches of philosophy on which such progress is NOT possible, but an interesting thread nonetheless.

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What a fabulous gem if an essay on AI and education. big question remains: what is there to do apart frm more face-to-face interaction?

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In this post I mourn the end of an era, as the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social will be closing down its blog platform in a few months time blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

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According to World Weather Attribution, "climate change has made a 32C day in the UK 100 times more likely than in the pre-industrial era. A June heatwave of three consecutive days above 28C was 10 times more likely to occur now." www.ft.com/content/650c...

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Did you know a new glacial lake is threatening a French Alps valley? 🧊🌊 It is located in Vanoise N.P. (Grand Marchet Gl.) above Pralognan whose campsite will remain closed all summer! Drainage work (due to start on Monday) raises many (ethical) questions www.montagnes-magazine.com/actus-menace...

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EXTRAORDINARY:44C ON KAZAKH HIGHLANDS Records pulverized in hundreds of stations at 500m/1000m asl 43.9 Aksengir 43.0 Aydarly 42.8 Bakanas 42.6 Ciganak 42.3 Aul etc SIBERIA 38.2 Chadan It will get much worse: It's the most extreme event in world climatic history hands down

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