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sleepy-bebby · 2 months ago
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There’s a scientific journal called “Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List”.
In 2005, computer scientists David Mazières and Eddie Kohler created this highly profane ten-page paper as a joke, to send in replying to unwanted conference invitations. It literally just contains that seven-word phrase over and over, along with a nice flow chart and scatter-plot graph.
An Australian computer scientist named Peter Vamplew sent it to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology in response to spam from the journal. Apparently, he thought the editors might simply open and read it.
Instead, they automatically accepted the paper — with an anonymous reviewer rating it as “excellent” — and requested a fee of $150. While this incident is pretty hilarious, it’s a sign of a bigger problem in science publishing. This journal is one of many online-only, for-profit operations that take advantage of inexperienced researchers under pressure to publish their work in any outlet that seems superficially legitimate.
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stealingyourbones · 6 months ago
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There’s a new drug in Gotham making the rounds, one synthesized by Two-Face’s people; if you take it you will have a 50/50 chance that you’ll experience the greatest high of your life or that you’ll die.
Batman is desperately trying to find the main lab and cut off the production from the source and hasn’t been able to find a lead in weeks.
That’s when Gordon gives him a file that was given to him by a “white haired ghost kid”. It’s a detailed report written similarly to a scientific journal with detailed sources that are mainly first hand accounts from deceased victims of the Two-Face drug.
At the very end of the paper there’s an address to a Gotham University dorm room with a sticky note next to it that says “if you need help with death or the undead. Yours truly; Danny Fenton.”
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multiverse-singularity · 2 months ago
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Going through it™ right now...
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sinkdogs · 1 month ago
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mom flower
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evilminji · 2 years ago
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Actually? You know what would be darkly hilarious?
If, when the GIW can't get ghosts declared both malicious AND non-sapient/sentient? They push for "dumb animals" instead.
Which is accepted. Ghosts are animals. Checks out, says scientists everywhere.
HOW "dumb"?
What? Says the GIW, mid-victory high fives. They did not expect a follow up question. They SHOULD have, as this is the SCIENTIFIC community and that is literally their job, but here we are.
How. "Dumb"? The scientists repeate slower. What methodology did you use? What is your sample size? Are their different sub-species? Is this dimension like ours? Is Ghost the equivalent to Mammal? It says here their are humanoid ones.
What IQ are we talking about here and HOW DID YOU TEST??
A goldfish, parrot, and dolphin are all animals. WILDLY different levels of intelligence. You can't treat them the same. Technically speaking, WE are animals.
The GIW does not like where this conversation is going. Tries to shut it down.
.......well NOW the scientists are both offended AND invested. How DARE you try to push faulty science and hide the Truth from them! They're gonna do their OWN studies! *picks up the phone and dials that one embarrassing spiritualist friend they had in college* Hey! You still think you can summon ghosts? I'll pay you to try it for Science!
And like? As a Ghost? It's degrading as hell. But ALSO these fuckos just Whoopsie'd you into having both protections under the law, since animal abuse IS illegal, AND just put the ENTIRE planets scientific community on their asses.... by accident.
So you take a deeeeeeep breath you don't even need. Remember you're doing this for the little ghost babies and fluffy ghost animals. And show up at a research facility like "yes, hello, I am Ghost. Here for you to poke and prod at. Please ask me to name the object on the flash card or whatever IQ tests do these days."
Should you HAVE to prove your own fucking sentience? No. But? You do it. You're even polite about it. Ask for a copy of the study they plan to publish so you can BEAT some mother fuckers with it. The scientists nod in understanding and use the BIG font for your copy so it'll hurt more.
They've been there.
And just? Shitty people getting what they wanted only to have it blow up in their faces?? I see all these angst "but what if they were declared ANIMALS" prompts and I just?? Are we talking PARROT or goldfish!? One has the average intelligence of about a human 4yr old and the other is a FISH! People get RIGHTFULLY furious when you treat INTELLIGENT animals badly.
And would, in fact, adapt pretty easy to discovering one of said animal has become HUMAN lvl intelligent. It's easy to grasp the idea of human intelligence lvl dolphin or monkeys. Maybe there was some mutated strain, maybe in uetro tampering. Who knows. But if I tried to sell you a human intelligent housefly? Gold fish? Lizard?
You wouldn't believe me. There is some kind of trick at play.
So if GHOSTS are seen as animals? Everyone nods and then later? Someone comes in TV and very excitedly informs you "we found INTELLIGENT LIFE amongst the ghosts!" You'd believe it. Probably be really excited by your conversation starter for the day. Get a taco and move on with your life.
But? Having to willing sit for a barrage of testing? Is going to suuuuuuck so bad. Poor Danny. SATs all over again. For HOURS. At multiple facilities, just to be CERTAIN it's not a one off. All because he not certain he can insure good behavior from other ghosts and This Is IMPORTANT. He ALSO can't be certain it's even SAFE.
Might be a trap.
But if he has to do it again and again and again? Mexico to Bavaria to China to the Maldives? If this is what it takes for the scientific community to bitchslap the GIW into ORBIT before the UN? Hand him that pencil.
He has no where more important to be.
@hdgnj @nerdpoe @mutable-manifestation @ailithnight @the-witchhunter
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han-ban-bam · 4 months ago
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they are gossiping Discussing Valuable Science at a science conference or some such. 💁
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beheamothscreamoth · 2 months ago
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Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O
For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')
#Ais calling Mhin 'that dove' has made something click in my brain and I had to ask this orz#Ngl it made me wonder- Does Ais base his bird nicknames off of appearance or personality?? Or both?? Or something else??#Doves mean peace and pacifism and uh *looks at Mhin* Peace and love to them but they don't exactly remind me of either of those- Mhin's hai#has the same color as doves though so that makes me think back to appearances.. But maybe peace is something that Mhin yearns for? Idk#Sparrows mean resilience; adaptability; joy; and freedom- I remember someone saying that freedom is something that Ais wants due to Ocudeus#But also that sparrows are one of the most common birds in the world- So to Ais (at least at first) you're just another face to him#and he tries to distance himself from you by calling you a common bird. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but it's probably something-#I personally like to think Ais's nicknames are a combination of personality+appearance but I could be very VERY wrong DKLSFJNS /lh#Tbh I doubt Ais is super focused on the deeper meaning of his nicknames (since he gave us our sparrow nickname upon his first impression)#But still!! This is just for fun- For my OCs let's start with Shinju - woodpeckers represent determination; communication; and opportunitie#Since he's a merchant these qualities are pretty fitting (still haven't come up w/ a solid design just yet but I'm trying to cook orz /lh)#As for Edgar crows mean death and the afterlife which KIND OF links to his scientific hypothesis?? (though Ais doesn't know about it)#But crows also mean intelligence; transformation; and wisdom which links to him being a scientist+alchemist.#Or Ais just calls him that because he has black hair LJSNDF /lh#As for Daniella bluebirds mean joy; hope; and renewal/growth which are pretty fitting for her#But Ais could just be calling her that since she wears a lot of blue lksjdlala- /lh (*cough* And also- *cough)#(I read that bluebirds are also supposed to be 'harbingers of happiness' which could be a cute little thing if Daniella goes down his route#touchstarved#touchstarved game#touchstarved ais#ais#touchstarved mc#touchstarved oc#Scream Posts For: Touchstarved#touchstarved daniella#daniella#touchstarved edgar#edgar#touchstarved shinju#shinju
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arthursfuckinghat · 11 months ago
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RDR2 has done irreversible damage to my brain, any mention of plans or Tahiti and I get sent into orbit
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fishin-in-a-graveyard · 23 days ago
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I think I accidentally created a Tumblr group that developed language in a similar way to prehistoric humans
I created a Tumblr community (on December 28th) where nobody was allowed to use any established language whatsoever, I kind of just figured it would be a funny little thing with maybe some words developed well there's 133 members and.. I think it counts as a language now
Keep in mind there was no discussion about word meaning in outside of the group (as far as I'm aware) meaning this language was developed organically between people who didn't speak a shared language.
Some people had certain concepts about a word they were creating meaning but it naturally shifted as people had to interpret based off of where that person was using the word, till enough people interpreted it where it became common vocabulary with a broadly agreed upon definition.
(I would give a really good example of this but I don't want to spoil certain word meanings for people, If you're curious DM me)
Sure, Some people would just make random noises and I'm sure that was the same in prehistoric time, but over the common need to be able to communicate people in this community developed agreed upon words with definitions.
(Yes, I know some words created are basically just English but spelled wrong but that's the exception not the the rule, most words seem to be completely original)
A example people speaking the language in a comment section under a post (They're discussing words and their meaning)
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The post these comments are under I believe to be a list of words and their meaning:
The craziest thing of them all is I watched this language develop and know the exact roots of quite a few of these words, It genuinely does feel like caveman developing language In the way it happened!!
I'm also getting some interesting results with some other linguistic restrictions social experiment groups, "One word only" and "Emojis only", If you're interested, DM me and I'll send you a link
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lamestdyke · 17 days ago
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i have this thing called “being miserable” and the only cure is my gf cumming on my face a minimum of 3 times
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mxwhore · 7 months ago
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I had a very nice morning teaching science to the kiddos (and sometimes their teachers)
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nicolefuns · 1 month ago
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a rawr sketch 🦖
(buy me a coffee on kofi!)
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