#Nomenclature

Dan Dillon

Dan_Dillon_1

I was just legitimately emotionally moved by seeing someone say "opportunity attack" and not "attack of opportunity" when talking about 5e. So that's apparently the warm-wax-soft kind of day I'm

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

By naming 'a variant' we are flagging it as being of concern even if it probably isn't (relative to other circulating lineages). Back in April proposed a lineage naming system

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

There is a lot of discussion at the moment about naming SARS-CoV-2 variants and coming up with a standardised naming system. There was some discussion of this last week at

Karen Lloyd

archaearama

Your paper had experts on Deltaproteobacteria phylogeny. If I were writing your paper, I would have contacted the same experts. But that’s because, when I, personally, think of taxonomy/nomenclature, I

Prof Francois Balloux

BallouxFrancois

Until about a year ago, there were two recognised strategies to deal with a pandemic, namely 'suppression' and 'mitigation'. Those are extremes on a spectrum of stringency, and it was

Zac

zechareyah

Unbelievably infuriating that people are using slurs like it's fine.Here are some "slang" terms that are actually slurs:-g*psy-esk*mo-s*cred c*w-sp**k/sp**ky (this one is more context dependent but still counts)-nearly any Ang

Mourad H Senussi

msenussiMD

(1/ )There has been an overwhelming interest in the use of hepatic waveforms as a congestive parameter. With social media, somewhat obscure concepts like these are quickly brought to the

Derek Rae

RaeComm

Interested in the debate about club names here in the USA. I would say this as a Scot but give me organic, genuine evolution every day of the week. My

David Liu

thedak

I love my industry but came across a bit of a realization today. When a new medium is created, it’s exciting and generally ultra inclusive. Until it isn’t. /1 Early

Hank Green

hankgreen

Please, please someone put me I touch with the person responsible for the word BAMLANIVIMAB.https://twitter.com/business/status/1325950862666166275 OK, I've actually been doing research on this, and there are set nomenclature rules for

Chris Lane

LaneLabURI

Really fascinating workshop happening rn on prokaryotic taxonomy. Most people find taxonomy boring, but there's currently a massive shift happening. As an outsider and panelist in this workshop, I'm going

Javed Hassan

javedhassan

On any given day the economic discourse in this country revolves around idiotic shibboleths, which include:1/ Interest rates have no bearing on inflation 2/ Pakistani govt can print money ad

Garrett M. Graff

vermontgmg

THREAD: A short thread for nerds on federal nomenclature, with all the headlines about officers and agents send to Portland. DHS is actually sending both! And they mean slightly different

Rajan Venkateswaran (സ്വാമി)

swamy64

As per hindu mythology, depending on whether you follow Vishnu puranam or Bhagavath Geetha, there are 7 Worlds (Lokams) above the Earth (including Earth) and 7 below (excluding Earth) 1/n

Petina Gappah

VascoDaGappah

For those who (naturally!) tend to doubt any Zim govt voice and prefer to listen to “the international community”, please be assured that the Harmonised System Of Tariff Nomenclature dIstinguishes

Keith Pereira MD, #IRad

keithppereira

Trauma Surgery Colleagues: "IT IS TIME for change of attitude and nomenclature to reflect that Splenic Artery Embolization (#SAE) is its own distinct procedure, rather than being constrained as a

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