I was going to say something about my fun weekend, but...
A paper came out last week that reclassified the family of viruses I study into 3 viruses. It doesn't change the way I did or should have done my experiments, but it certainly changes the way I should describe them.
So, someone in the Agency That Makes Fancy Names decided the virus has cousins or siblings or something and now new terminology is required,like, instantly? Is this more than a "tell the word processor to change A to B"?? Or are they inferring that there are now different organisms that you haven't distinguished and your work is up in smoke?? Sounds last-minute scary...???
Not scary, just annoying. They reclassified the genus Polyomavirus to three genuses- ortho-, avi- and wuki-polyomavirus. If I want to publish this introduction is a cutting edge review, I gotta move with the times. The new nomenclature makes sense, but isn't really a find and replace kind of problem.
So, someone in the Agency That Makes Fancy Names decided the virus has cousins or siblings or something and now new terminology is required,like, instantly? Is this more than a "tell the word processor to change A to B"?? Or are they inferring that there are now different organisms that you haven't distinguished and your work is up in smoke?? Sounds last-minute scary...???
ReplyDeleteNot scary, just annoying. They reclassified the genus Polyomavirus to three genuses- ortho-, avi- and wuki-polyomavirus. If I want to publish this introduction is a cutting edge review, I gotta move with the times. The new nomenclature makes sense, but isn't really a find and replace kind of problem.
ReplyDeleteYou're studying Wookie viruses? Does George Lucas know about this? Maybe he'd give you a grant?
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