Questions tagged [allowed-questions]
This tag should be used when a meta-question is debating whether a question is on-topic or not
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Not all questions featuring something biological are biology questions
Something I think we need to clear up in terms of what is and is not on-topic, are questions where the user asks something that is not a biological question and then attempting to justify it being ...
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Reminder: questions about biological mechanisms behind medical conditions are explicitly on topic here
Every once in a while there are some close votes of human biology questions that are explicitly on topic here. It came up again today here. Not the best question, I'll admit, but it shouldn't be ...
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Is it OK to ask if a recorded sound was emitted by a bat?
Note: the question is now posted on Biology.SE.
For fun, I tried to record sounds emitted by bats in an area where bats were flying all around.
By doing a few manipulations with the audio record (...
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Does there exist a substantial guide for how to write questions on biology.SE?
We can find that people ask if a specific topic is "on topic", and how they can improve their question. There are of course the children sites of help center, and a small list of general rules have ...
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Is "Stackoverflow modding itself out of existence"?
The title belongs to a blog post is trending today on Hacker News. Thousands of people are looking at it as I write this.
I often feel that biology.se is destined to be a minor player compared to ...
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CogSci has changed its name
As of yesterday, Cognitive Sciences has been renamed into
Psychology & Neuroscience
There are various reasons for this. The most important reasons, imo, being that we wish to attract more ...
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Help developing question about fishing and the carbon cycle
I have been reading about medieval fishing, and how it was so widespread they had to institute the first laws limiting how many fish could be taken. This got me thinking about the Pacific Northwest. ...
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Self help question
The question "What exactly is neuroplasticity, and can it be demonstrated with a simple experiment?" was closed because of off-topicness due to self-help. The only reference to a do-it-yourself was ...
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How to distinguish a question more appropriate for Biology-SE or CogSci-SE or Health-SE?
Recently going through this question (that has been put hold as off-topic; and commented for more appropriate to CogSci.SE) ; to me it looked highly like a biology (physiology) question such as this ...
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Why was my question migrated to medical science?
Why was my question migrated to medical science?
My question was more about the condition( even if it is a condition in attention of the medical science) in itself( hypothesized causation by fungi) ...
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Would this be on-topic?
Recently, I was asked to participate in an evolution vs. intelligent design debate as the representative for ID. As a result, I have been busily putting together some arguments.
Being as I am a ...
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Asking a Microtaxonomy question
I am interested in the Species Problems that work well with Homo Sapiens as the concept is used by the Wikipedia Article
A book by Ernst Mayr says that Microtaxonomy is the study of Species and
the ...
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Question about learning virology for industry?
I am applying for a QC virology job and I was trying to find learning resources. I was wondering if asking this question would be on topic for the biology stack exchange or should I change it?
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Are general health-related question on topic?
I saw in the help center that
personal medical questions and health advice
are off-topic.
Does "personal" pertain to both "medical questions" and "health advice"? In other words, is a "health ...
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Should we have some instructions/codes before asking anthropology question dealing with human races/ phenotypes?
Anthropology-related questions like this or this may fall in unwanted trouble regarding racism or politics or such-kind of complications.
So, before asking such kind of answer; how could we ...
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