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Fellow @ University of Aberdeen. Professionally: macroevolution, especially birds & languages. Personally: drinks too much coffee, plays too much D&D.
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Why I can keep straight French, tourist-Spanish, and tourist-Italian, but completely fail at Scandinavia, I have no idea, but my brain is just completely noping out at the addition of basic Norwegian.
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For example, "goodbye (casual)":
Swedish: hej då!
Norwegian: ha det!
Finnish: hei hei!
"boy":
Swedish: pojke
Finnish: poika
Norwegian: gutt
Swedish & Norwegian for "yes": ja
Finnish for "and": ja
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Oh, these are incredible titles/topics! And I love your "impossible question" approach.
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Ah, yes, the classic "please tell the internet the answers to common security questions" meme 😅. I imagine as a bobcat, though, that you do not fear hackers?
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INCREDIBLE, I love it.
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This perhaps does explain why my father gets so annoyed by the fact that when I lived in St Andrews, I called the nearby water "the ocean", and now in Aberdeen, I call it "the North Sea". I claim that this is legitimate local variation (i.e., tourists vs oil), but who knows...
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I also super admire this recent study, using eBird data to look at geographical variation in population decline
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Woot woot!
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That would make a better story! I think it's a mistake with logs.
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For people who don't follow this topic closely, kids absolutely do get Long COVID. Infection-associated chronic illness has two age spikes at diagnosis according to an enormous Norwegian study of IACCs pre-COVID:
Ages 10-19 (late childhood - teen years)
Late 20s - Late 30s
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You have convinced me, good sir -- it is neither the length nor the weight that is incorrect, but the range map! 😂ðŸ”
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Malaysia 😂
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I might buy myself an online pass just to see this talk...
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Congratulations! Such cool research!
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Such cool work -- congratulations!
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for SURE
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okay, but raisins in chicken salad are excellent; this sounds like a great combo!
(my friends would tell you that I have unusual opinions about food)