If you want to know more about this (because in reality it is a bit more complicated) MinuteFood explains it pretty well in this video.

Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(

No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use

I misread, thanks for clarifying :)

Yeah, the art market in on itself is a scam…

What? Why does no one in the comments mention that plants don’t decompose dead bodies? This statement is just utterly wrong.

Well, that is pretty much US defaultism. I’m not from the US and was talking about academia on an international level.

Your example again just shows how the structure, i.e. the universities working under capitalist logic, are the problem. This doesn’t mean that academics necessarily agree with this change in politics.

I get why you have such a fatalistic view and I agree with your statements about the fascist takeover :(

Not sure if this would impact academia all that much since those “pompous” scholars are just a tiny minority. I don’t think academia’s problem lies in individuals being problematic anyways but rather on a structural level. Egoistic, shortsighted and competitive behavior is strongly incentivized. And people that don’t fit that mold get burned out pretty quickly. I think opposite to your argument it is rather an indication of how good human nature can be that academia is still working on such a collaborative and communicative basis despite capitalist and neoliberal pressures.

I’m all about defending ourselves and support violence against Nazis. But dehumanizing some people means you are generally open to dehumanizing people. And this can get problematic real quick…

Nope, dehumanizing anyone, be it Nazis or not, is always going to be problematic!

Nice! Although unfortunately most of the documentation and various tools are in French…

Not sure how ad revenue works. Do they get paid, if no ads are shown? Or is it because of SEO and the search results that come up first that give ad revenue?

I’m in love with both, too ❤️

Haha, my favorite crochet youtuber Complicated Knots made a series of videos on “Bugsmas” (for Christmas) last year. She included in her bugs such things as bees or beetles, but also a snail and a velvet worm. No hemipterans were included though. But following your definition, all those above could be bugs because they are terrestrial.

The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.

While women make up 70 percent of cases of Alzheimer’s disease and 65 percent of cases of depression, only about half of one percent of brain-imaging research is related to women. This disparity continues even in drug approvals, such as lecanemabirmb, which U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease, but it may not slow the disease in women.

Big oof!!!

“It’s high time to make the brain a major focus of women’s health,” says Sacher.

Or even better make women’s health the focus of medical research as it has been ignored for decades. Just like research has been on mostly white people.

Thanks for the recommendations! Haven’t read any of these books and after reading some reviews, I’m intrigued.

If you liked the details in Moby Dick about whaling, you may also be interested in this great BBC series I’ve discovered a few weeks ago: Inside nature’s giants where they dissect large animals and explain their anatomy and evolution. There are also two episodes of stranded whales being dissected ;)

Interesting, doesn’t ard also mean “ground/earth” in Arabic? Maybe one of those words that made into the indo-german languages by the Arabic conquest?

Same :'(

Nah, if you are an actual researcher dealing with hundreds of species you hardly now the common names (if the taxa even have common names, which most don’t!). Also, working in a diverse international environment like the research community means that knowing only common names won’t get you anywhere. It is very much necessary for you to know scientific names to be able to communicate with others.

I know many the scientific names of taxa from completely different kingdoms than my own research because I’ve been talking with other researchers about their field of study.