@bnerlich.bsky.social
Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger
blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
https://bnerlich-lang.github.io/
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827
@bnerlich.bsky.socialAh yes, I now remember vaguely!!!
@bnerlich.bsky.socialOh I didn't see that!
@bnerlich.bsky.socialGood point. But it came to mean that I think....
@bnerlich.bsky.socialOups and I had forgotten this about epigenetic landscapes themselves from the perspective of art, language and science makingsciencepublic.com/2019/03/01/f...
@bnerlich.bsky.socialFor some reason that made me all nostalgic and I re-read a post I wrote about Waddington (a really good guy!) which was sparked off by one of your tweets years ago - 2019! makingsciencepublic.com/2019/01/26/p...
@bnerlich.bsky.socialI am really surprised that nobody has yet invented bus anthropology or bus ethnograpy - what a fascinating field of human language, interaction etc. it would be...and the changes of time.....
@bnerlich.bsky.socialThe leaves are beginning to turn in #Wollaton Park
@bnerlich.bsky.socialChatting about 'super intelligence/superintelligence'? Want to know more about the scientific context? Explore here makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/11/w...
@bnerlich.bsky.socialI once saw a peacock in a tree and was flabbergasted. I never expected them to fly!
@bnerlich.bsky.socialcroissant
@bnerlich.bsky.socialI was about to throw away a post on three 'man-made' adjectives (anthropogenic, synthetic and artificial) when 'super' came along and I couldn't #AI #synbio #climate #linguistics #metaphors #scicomm makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/11/w...
@timothysnyder.bsky.socialReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialIf Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence.
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@leonardocarella.bsky.socialReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialIn other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.
@bnerlich.bsky.socialInteresting! I think a similar argument can be made for some contested metaphors in genomics. Use but acknowledge imperfections. Language and human knowledge are built on imperfections..
@bnerlich.bsky.socialI just looked up the price, oh la la!
@bnerlich.bsky.socialNever knew about this! What is it?
@deevybee.bsky.socialReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialYet more today from Philip Moriarty and the mismatch between the University of Nottingham's "values" and what they actually do. 🔥🔥🔥
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@deevybee.bsky.socialReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialThis is a very disturbing read by Philip Moriarty about the corporate consultants at University of Nottingham, whose "bloodless prime-LLM-grade corporate boilerplate" called Future Nottingham 2 is guiding decision-making - cuts, cuts and more cuts.
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@quantamagazine.orgReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialIn the mid 1900s, not everyone even believed that genes played a significant role in development. C.H. Waddington’s iconic epigenetic landscapes helped to change that. New data both confirms and complicates his ideas. www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif...
@chrislintott.bsky.socialReposted by @bnerlich.bsky.socialAs expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭
