Although I am easily distracted, it is never for nought. Today, I've been thinking of the orthography and morphology of Parsifal whilst trying to decide which version to run with.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/parsifals-drifting-name?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

My first 'real' encounter with Perceval was Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished version, but Wagner's version seems to have stuck with me.

#bliog #philosophy #language #spelling #variation #substack #writing #linguistics #orthography #morphology #Parsifal #FisherKing

New on Dryad: "A new species from an inselberg in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: Stachytarpheta forzzae (Verbenaceae), supported by morphological, palynological and anatomical evidence"

🔍 Explore the dataset on Dryad: bit.ly/47fUQIB

📖 Read the article in the Nordic Journal of Botany from our partners at Nordic Society Oikos & Wiley: bit.ly/3Nk00MY

#opendata #researchdata #botany #morphology #researchintegrity #datasharing #openscience #biology #brazil #flora

Funny thing, algorithms.
I replaced

performanceID

with

performerID

and if I were marking the change manually,
it would be:

-perform[-ance-]ID
+perform{+er+}ID

but in fact it is:

-perform[-anc-]eID
+performe{+r+}ID

(obviously...).

[Typos corrected.]

#Diff
#Morphology
#SoftwareTools

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116022519007902519

Beetles of the genus #Cheironitis (#Scarabaeinae) are characterized by a strikingly #robust #morphology in the #adults, while the larvae usually resemble cockchafer grubs. These are #dungbeetles that exhibit #broodcare. They are widespread in #arid regions of the #Palearctic and #Afrotropical regions. YuHeng Wang et al. (2025) described, i.a., the new species C. #aiweiae from #ShirenGou (Xinjiang Uygur). #Biodiversityresearch © this text #StefanFWirth

Hi Fediverse,

I am new here and would like to give a short #introduction.
I am currently doing my #PhD in #biomechanics at the #HUBerlin where I focus on motor control of the trunk in the presence of low-back pain. As part of an interdisciplinary research team around the #CharitéBerlin our group is adressing #mechanics, #morphology and #motion of the spine.
I am interested in #rstats, #Linux, #OpenScience, #FAIRData and #FreeSoftware.

#Neuhier #introductions #PhD #Berlin #movementscience

Paper by Yanru Lu and me about #reduplication in #MandarinChinese is now (pre-)published:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226725101047

#Linguistics #HPSG #Grammar #Morphology #fun #OpenAccess

In #Avengers c1967: "had forgot". Perhaps this was a #NY thing at the time? It has certainly never been anywhere near as common as "had forgotten" in #English #literature (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=had+forgot%2Chad+forgotten&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3).

#linguistics #languagevariation #morphology #newyork #Marvel #comics

🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.

Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea6945

#Evolution #Complexity #Geometry #Morphology