What’s an acronym that always throws you off when used outside of work context? E.g., LBD Ligand-binding domain? Oh, little black dress 😅 🧪 - ThreadSky

pkpd-babe.bsky.social • 536 days ago

What’s an acronym that always throws you off when used outside of work context? E.g., LBD

Ligand-binding domain? Oh, little black dress 😅

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cbquist.bsky.social•535 days ago

There is a dance studio in my town 'Across The Floor' - they have tshirts that say ATF and I always have to do a double take at the 7year old girl firearms agents

amirho3ein-mbd.bsky.social•535 days ago

PBS
Phosphate-buffered saline
Public Broadcasting Service

choster.bsky.social•535 days ago

Not mine, but I had a boss that insisted that UDP was the "unrequested data protocol" and that I should block it at our firewall. (it is the user datagram protocol outside of that office)

tamidon.bsky.social•535 days ago

peoples reactions when I say I went to CIA if they aren't cooks

alans9.bsky.social•535 days ago

Holy crap this one rings so true. I lived in Poo-kip-see for many years, ate at the CIA many times.

tamidon.bsky.social•535 days ago

Great places to go for dinner pretty affordably. The top 2 would book out weeks in advance

alans9.bsky.social•534 days ago

So much yes! I was a poor post-doc, and it was the perfect date night place to go, especially since it was so close, we could hit up the less popular days easily.

tamidon.bsky.social•534 days ago

Best option,I always thought, was the De Medici room, amazing high end classic Italian food for an incredible prices, and a well priced wine list.The trick was to find out what day of the class was the day you were going.Class was 7days FOH/7days BOH.Hitting on the students' day 6 or 7 was great

fresnel.bsky.social•535 days ago

Not exactly the same thing, but I can't stand it when physics experiments use cute backronyms that make it impossible to search for them, like PAPER.

taenia.bsky.social•535 days ago

Migratory Bird Treaty Act
/ Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Bureau of Land Management /Black Lives Matter

taenia.bsky.social•535 days ago

Oh and recently I've been having a lot of double takes over Marjorie Taylor Green / Magic the Gathering

pkpd-babe.bsky.social•535 days ago

OMG yes, my boss also uses it as shorthand for “meeting”.

pkpd-babe.bsky.social•535 days ago

MSM

methylsulfonylmethane
mainstream media

jinesh.bsky.social•535 days ago

Men who have sex with men if you are in medicine or ID

dremilyrsmith.bsky.social•535 days ago

Ah! That’s ’men who have sex with men’ or ‘marginal structural models’ in my little corner of public health / epidemiology.

supersciencegrl.co.uk•535 days ago

This was still in work, but BCP took me a while.
Bicyclopentane? No, doesn't work in this context
Bromodomain-containing protein? No, still def not right
...Oh, business continuity plan? Got it.....