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Happy new year everyone, I find it more than a little depressing that the only message on the website from the Chief Executive is about what we are allowed to call the organisation. http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/AboutUs/index.htm This is not the thread to get into the role of the British Science Association but the fact that the new name seems more important for comment than the work of the organisation seems to me a bit depressing. I'm sure I've said this before but jettisoning the moniker "British Association for the Advancement of Science" distances the organisation from all its massively impressive achievements of the past. http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/AboutUs/OurHistory/index.htm I was reading two popular science books over Christmas that glowingly mentioned the "British Association for the Advancement of Science" and as someone in the know I can link those achievements to the current British Science Association. But who else reading them would have done so? The American Association for the Advancement of Science or AAAS seems to cope very well with their name, why oh why didn't the BA take the opportunity to 1. get rid of a confusing acronym and 2. get back to their roots and just revert to the the old name? The "bee double ay ess" or "BAAS" would be a much better option for them IMHO. http://www.aaas.org/ But then a quick web search reveals that all the baas.XXX domains have already been registered: http://www.just-the-name.co.uk/whois.shtml?domain=baas&tld=all&x=0&y=0 Is the real reason for the choice of new name was that the organisation was tardy in registering a domain? James www.ScienceShowsForSchools.com On 4 January 2011 21:12, Michael Kenward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Roland Jackson is probably tired of reading this saga yet again, but I have > a vague recollection that when the name of the BA came up a while back, he > provided a detailed explanation of the thinking. > > > > It is, if my memory is not completely shot, somewhere in the archive for > anyone who is interested. > > > > MK > > > > > > > > From: psci-com: on public engagement with science > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Ellam > Sent: 04 January 2011 12:52 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] BA / aeroplanes > > > > HI All > > > > As we're turning over this bit of history, I might as well repeat what I > said when (as a BA branch committee member) I heard of the impending name > change. > > > > I concluded that changing from the BA to the BSA was a Triumph, which had > clearly been thought up by a cheery Sunbeam in the marketing department to > give us all something to Raleigh round ... > > > > At the moment I know the organisation formally known as the BA is touchy > about being known as the BSA. I predict that in five years' time they'll > have bowed to the inevitable and be calling themselves the BSA, and in ten > years' time they'll have adopted a new logo, consisting of three crossed > rifles on a elliptical background! (As used by the former Birmingham Small > Arms Company, AKA BSA.) > > > > Cheers > > > > and Happy New year whatever you call yourself! > > > > Richard. > > > > > > Richard Ellam > > L M Interactive > > Science Shows and Hands-On Stuff > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > On 3 Jan 2011, at 17:56, jennifer gristock wrote: > > > > > > On 3 Jan 2011, at 17:34, Samantha Simic quoted a British Science Association > document that said: > > British Science Association - in full please > > > > > > Hear, hear! > > > > > > ********************************************************************** > Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list > archive, can be found at the list web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your > settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. > > Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as > 'JISCMail'. 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