Egology

The study of the Human Ego System.
The Human Ego System is where all the personality and self-esteem is stored in a human's body.
This is an extremely rare class that is taken in universities across the world, you must have an IQ of at least 140.
And yes, I am in that class.

Thanks to Egology class, I now understand the Human Ego System between different people and can understand their personal view much faster and know why they act a certain way.

by AZ305 May 10, 2013

Emoloyee

Short form for "emo employees". Typically such people have constant problems with everyone and everything at work. Therefore they get desperate and become called "emo employees".

Damn it! I got disconnected from the work VPN connection and my computer CPU is at 100%. I am a true emoloyee...

by OriginOfTruth January 10, 2024

Ecology of Science

A metascientific framework that studies science as an ecological system—a complex, interdependent network of organisms (scientists), populations (disciplines), communities (fields), and environments (institutions, funding landscapes, social contexts). The ecology of science examines how scientific niches emerge and evolve, how resources (funding, attention, prestige) flow through the system, how competition and cooperation shape research agendas, how species (theories, methods, paradigms) adapt or go extinct, and how disturbances (discoveries, scandals, funding shifts) ripple through the ecosystem. It reveals that scientific change is not just rational progress but ecological succession—driven by interactions between organisms and their environments, by adaptation and selection, by the same dynamics that shape any living system. The ecology of science treats laboratories as habitats, journals as ecosystems, and scientific communities as biomes, each with its own internal dynamics and relationships to the larger environment.

Example: "Her ecology of science analysis showed how the rise of molecular biology created a new niche that drew resources away from traditional organismal biology—not because molecular biology was better, but because it occupied a new ecological space that flourished in the changing funding environment."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

corporate ecology

The interaction of a business with its operating environment.

Corporate ecology is increasingly becoming more important to businesses in today's world.

by 32768 April 19, 2012

Queer ecology

The intersection between queer theory with our comprehension about ecological dynamics outside of the heteronormative perspective of how nature works (male and female as god intended...).

Hey Karen has gone woke, now she studies queer ecology

by manupiss October 13, 2023

Alien Ecology

The study of the complex, interconnected web of life on a non-terrestrial world, operating under fundamentally different physical and chemical rules. It’s not just a catalog of weird plants and animals; it’s understanding how energy flows, nutrients cycle, and species co-evolve in an environment with, for example, a methane-based solvent, triple suns, or a silicate-based biology. The core principles of competition and symbiosis may apply, but the rulebook—the biochemistry, the food chains, the planetary rhythms—is utterly foreign.

Example: The world of Pandora in Avatar is a fictional study in Alien Ecology, with its neural network connecting all flora and fauna (Eywa), its floating mountains supported by magnetic fields, and its creatures linked through biological interfaces. A real scientific version would involve modeling how hypothetical sulfur-metabolizing microbes on Europa might form a subsurface ecosystem entirely disconnected from sunlight.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026

Industrial Ecology

The study and design of industrial systems to function like ecosystems, where the waste output of one process becomes the raw material input for another, aiming for zero waste and circular material flows. It views factories, cities, and economies not as linear "take-make-dispose" chains, but as interconnected metabolic networks that should mimic nature's efficiency. The goal is to create industrial "symbiosis" where clusters of industries exchange byproducts, energy, and water.

Example: A classic Industrial Ecology setup is a power plant capturing its waste CO2 and piping it to an adjacent greenhouse to boost vegetable growth, while its waste heat warms nearby fish farms, and its fly ash is sold to a cement company. One industry's trash becomes another's treasure in a planned loop.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026