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Brigitte Nerlich
@bnerlich.bsky.social
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Metaphor hunter, linguist, social scientist, blogger

blog: https://makingsciencepublic.com/
also sorted into categories at https://wakelet.com/@bnerlich
ORCID: 0000-0001-6617-7827

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · Nov 17
So, I have created a starter pack for people interested in #metaphor. I bet I left a lot of people out. Please let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/DvxejFX

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Steven Fielding

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9h
Tim Allan, Keir Starmer’s director of communications, has just quit his Downing Street role:

“I have decided to stand down to allow a new No 10 team to be built. I wish the PM and his team every success."

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 11h
One of my favourites, apart from Bréal and Wegener, of course.

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Sharif Gemie

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 12h
Never mind the Mandelson debacle, the new rules for child refugees are a far bigger disgrace for Labour. Inhumane

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 12h
we are sort of neighbours it seems

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 23h
What a fascinating story and what a twist at the end!

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 1d
Ah!

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globalhlthtwit.bsky.social @globalhlthtwit.bsky.social · 1d
Morgan McSweeney resigns.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 1d
the book came out before ChatGPT though I think

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Margot C. Finn

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2d
In @theguardian.com Robin McKie thinks Adrian Woolfson underestimates the risks of building genomes from scratch in his new book. In my forthcoming review in @thelancet.com I argue that he underestimates the scientific obstacles to doing this in the first place.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
On the Future of Species by Adrian Woolfson review – are we on the verge of creating synthetic life?
A genomic entrepreneur’s guide to the coming revolution in biology raises troubling questions about ethics and safety
www.theguardian.com

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 2d
I know how it feels!

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 2d
For weekend readers, last shout-out for some musings on #AI #metaphors and their interconnections makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/06/m...
Metaphors for AI: Networks, holes and loops
I have been observing metaphors for generative AI for some time. This does not mean that I understand what’s going on in AI, but they provide me with an illusion of knowledge. They throw a net or m…
makingsciencepublic.com

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 2d
I'll be told on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.... At least the rain has stopped this morning :)

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Mahoganygaspipes @mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social · 3d
#Spéirghorm
#Sparegollum
#speirgorm

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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 3d
Update: I have received a repsonse from Sir Paul reiterating the Society's statement to the media:

"“The Royal Society does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment or bullying. That is, and will continue to be, enshrined in our code of conduct.”
See www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 3d
I wrote this quickly last week before my eye op... some musings about #metaphors and #AI and how they relate to each other makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/06/m...
Metaphors for AI: Networks, holes and loops
I have been observing metaphors for generative AI for some time. This does not mean that I understand what’s going on in AI, but they provide me with an illusion of knowledge. They throw a net or m…
makingsciencepublic.com

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 3d
Just what I need :)

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 4d
is there not one benevolent billionaire in the USA, who could start a newspaper that would employ those sacked by Washington Post, and provide a home for proper journalism?
anneapplebaum.bsky.social Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 4d
Feeling sorry for myself because of an operation and the weather and waiting for warmth and light, I came across this post on various festivals - la Chandeleuse, Imbolc, ground hog day, Lichtmess, candlemas - we're all just yearning for sun and warmth vinauverre.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/1...
Imbolc, Chandeleur and the Fête of the Marmot
Sunday in the US was Groundhog Day…I suppose that it was no great surprise, based on the winter that’s gone down this year, that the news was less than optimistic.In France, this holida…
vinauverre.wordpress.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d
I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

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The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor @raammetaphor.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting online workshop for metaphor researchers: Large Language METAPHORS: New Trends in Computational Approaches to Metaphorical Expressions

ℹ️ Full details here: neplab.it/large_langua...

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 4d
Oh no, I hope you get this sorted somehow...

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 4d
such a lovely garden path sentence

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5d
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 5d
I remember that so well.... it certainly stuck in my head

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 5d
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 5d
"The hottest club is always the one you can't get into."
I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed
I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Matthew Bunn, Brigitte Nerlich

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Deanne aka deakat @deakat.bsky.social · 5d
#ShareGoodNewsToo
"A vaccine called GBP511 has begun clinical testing in Australia. Pioneered by UW Medicine researchers, it is intended to protect against COVID-19 and related coronaviruses — including some that haven’t yet jumped to humans. www.ipd.uw.edu/2026/02/gbp5...
First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials – Institute for Protein Design
The computer-designed vaccine aims to protect against coronaviruses that haven't yet emerged, including pandemic threats
www.ipd.uw.edu

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 5d
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

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From Dictionary Craze to AI
YouTube video by Stockholm University
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 6d
sort of links to perhaps 'doesn't pass the smell test'?? And also slop stinks

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, Nancy­ Knowlton­

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Emma Court @emmarcourt.bsky.social · 6d
When you go in for a medical procedure, the gas putting you to sleep may also be warming the planet. That's prompting regulators and hospitals around the world to move to less-polluting alternatives.

Read more in @bloomberg.com:
Why Hospitals Are Phasing Out a Popular Operating Room Anesthetic
Desflurane, which has put patients to sleep for decades, has an outsized footprint, and health care providers are switching to less-polluting alternatives.
www.bloomberg.com