NEW YORK — Look alive, selfie. There’s another word of the year that’s not all about you.

While Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford dictionaries, declared those little smart phone self-portraits its winner last month, Merriam-Webster announced “science” today.

Oxford tracked a huge jump in overall usage of selfie, but Merriam-Webster stuck primarily to lookups on its website, recording a 176 percent increase for science when compared with last year.

“We bear witness to the astonishing capacities for scientific knowledge to aid us in transcending our seeming boundaries, to realize they’re not really boundaries,” said Jason Silva, host of the popular “Brain Games” show on the National Geographic Channel.