For weekend readers, some musing on crumbling #metaphors https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2023/09/08/crumbling-buildings-metaphors-we-live-in/

I'm going to mix so many metaphores... 😂

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The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1475 “#Metaphors of #Religion” @sfb1475 at #RuhrUniBochum offers Short-Term Fellowships for International Master's Graduates and Ph.D. Candidates available between April and December 2024. More information at https://ceres.rub.de/en/news/apply-now-short-term-fellowships-for-the-crc-1475/ @religion #religiousstudies
Get in touch if this is something you’d be interested in! Boosts welcome.

Today's post is about #metaphors in #scicomm - hits (dance metaphor and #superconductors) and misses (snowstorm metaphor and #cancerpill) https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2023/08/11/metaphors-in-science-communication-hits-and-misses/

We need more #metaphors for #climatechange What about

Burning fossil fuels is like toasting marshmallows on your own burning house.

Burning fossil fuels is like escaping the fire in your basement by going upstairs.

I don't really like it, would love to hear others' ideas. It's hard go past 'pouring petrol on a fire' because it's almost literally what we're doing.

Dr. Julich-Warpakowski gave a presentation with Dr Jensen (University of Southern Denmark) with the title "Zooming in on the Notion of Metaphoricity" at the 16th RaAM Conference in Alcalá de Henares. #Linguistics, #Metaphors

California needs to burn

https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980

#FireDebt #Wildfires #Metaphors

Metaphors for AI, and why I don’t like them https://windowsontheory.org/2023/06/28/metaphors-for-ai-and-why-i-dont-like-them/ (interesting) #AI #metaphors

During my brief foray into the world of #ELA #education, I found it helpful to give my students a breakdown of some of the most common #metaphors and #similes which easily grow into #symbols and hint at #theme.

So, a few years later, I decided to write about it - because why not?

"Raining in the Dark Cave of My Winter Car (Part One)" - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/raining-in-the-dark-cave-of-my-winter-car-part-one/

"Raining in the Dark Cave of My Winter Car (Part Two)" - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/raining-in-the-dark-cave-of-my-winter-car-part-two/

#LiteraryDevices #education #teacher #language #writing

There are more non-English presentations at #CL2023 ! Here, Dario Del Fante presents what metaphors were used in Italian news both during the emigration period 1900–1914 and the immigration period in later years.
#corpuslinguistics
#metaphors
#CADS
@DiscourseNet
@corpuslinguistics

Once you notice this, #metaphors are fascinating stuff. To get started, read the classic: "Metaphors we Live By" by Johnson & @georgelakoff. I map out some computing metaphors in Insolvent ch.3. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3637992.html

My writing is a garden, which I carefully tend, adding plants that will grow into beautiful harmony with the rest, leaving a mysterious interlinked place when I go... what metaphor suits your writing best?

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The butterfly effect and the carbon footprint as vivid everyday images. #111Words #ButterflyEffect #CarbonFootprint #Metaphors #Images #Vividness #IndividualAction https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-butterfly-effect-and-carbon.html

Like A Metaphor (Compared for the Very First Time) - https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/metaphor
#ELA #metaphors #similes #teachers #edutooter @edutooters

Philosopher Mary Brenda Hesse

considered the use of #metaphors and #analogies in scientific models.
Instead of obsessing over the justification of scientific knowledge, she highlighted the need to think about its generation. How do scientists develop their ideas about the world and come to discover new things?
The cognitive power of metaphors, in her view, resided in their capacity to create similarity. The use of metaphors is an act of co-creating, not discovering, similarities between a metaphor and its physical target system. Such an act of metaphorical co-creation is inevitably shaped by cultural context.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philosophers-often-erased-from-collective-memory

Philosopher Mary Brenda Hesse

considered the use of #metaphors and #Analogies in scientific models.
Instead of obsessing over the justification of scientific knowledge, she highlighted the need to think about its generation. How do scientists develop their ideas about the world and come to discover new things?
The cognitive power of metaphors, in her view, resided in their capacity to create similarity. The use of metaphors is an act of co-creating, not discovering, similarities between a metaphor and its physical target system. Such an act of metaphorical co-creation is inevitably shaped by cultural context.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-are-women-philosophers-often-erased-from-collective-memory

Philosopher Mary Brenda Hesse

considered the use of #metaphors and #Analogies in scientific models.
Instead of obsessing over the justification of scientific knowledge, she highlighted the need to think about its generation. How do scientists develop their ideas about the world and come to discover new things?
The cognitive power of metaphors, in her view, resided in their capacity to create similarity. The use of metaphors is an act of co-creating, not discovering, similarities between a metaphor and its physical target system. Such an act of metaphorical co-creation is inevitably shaped by cultural context.

Very thorough and thought provoking review on same book examining Earth’s environmental history. Book author uses the vortex metaphor as a narrative trope, also examined by reviewer. (Coincidental since currently reading George Lakoff & Mark Johnson’s “Metaphors We Live By”.) #environmentalhistory #metaphors #enviromentalecology

Book on my #booklist2023

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2023/04/21/book-review-the-vortex-an-environmental-history-of-the-modern-world/

More DJ metaphors to make light of how technology should be re-understood:

#Google #Youtube are proclaiming they not responsible for what people watch, because they are just recommending other people’s content (on autoplay).

It’s like a DJ would proclaim they are not responsible for what the vibe in the venue is like, because they are just playing other people’s records.

#DJ #technology #metaphors #content #recommendation

So Imgur is taking the Tumblr Train? #imgur #Tumblr #metaphors #socialMedia