Dr. Dan KillamA new study proposes that 2/3 of cats observed from youtube videos were curled leftward. I am going to start keeping a time series of my guy https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00507-X
Mandy Mac@MandyMay purriolis effect
shyduroff@dantheclamman … think we should suggest we mean ccw …
ladyteruki@dantheclamman : but how do you verify whether the cat was filmed in regular camera mode or in selfie mode (which mirrors the video) ?
@ladyteruki according to supplementary material, they used a tool to screen for those! https://ytlarge.com/data-viewer
@dantheclamman : they really were thorough !
JocelynWouldn't they curl the other way on #peertube videos?
(OK, small sample, we've got to work on this).
essjax@dantheclamman is it me, or are the cat images the wrong way around on this one?
@essjax well it follows the left/right hand rule convention, in that the thumb is pointing out and the direction of fingers is the direction of the head
@dantheclamman I am both enlightened and delightfully confused, which is not unusual for me, especially when I'm on the fedi 😅
Thank you
Thank you
William Pietri@essjax @dantheclamman It is not just you. The paper actually talks about which side they sleep on, so left means left side down. I would describe a left-side-down cat as having a rightward curl.
BB@williampietri @essjax @dantheclamman
Likewise. We usually think of the head as pointing out the direction, and looking down on a cat from above, rather than somehow from underneath it on a transparent surface. Thus I would also put them the other way around than shown. But I think it would be better still to describe them as "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" respectively :)
Likewise. We usually think of the head as pointing out the direction, and looking down on a cat from above, rather than somehow from underneath it on a transparent surface. Thus I would also put them the other way around than shown. But I think it would be better still to describe them as "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" respectively :)