#paper (scientific article)

[communistkenobi]

probably incredibly damaging to public knowledge that you can’t even read a single article about like, covid without being confronted by a paywall. like at a certain point I really can’t blame people for not reading anything

#tried to open a link on a scientific american paper about how to protect yourself from covid and got stopped by subscription prompt lol #& obviously not being able to read news articles is far downstream of systematic education issues but like man shit really fucking sucks !

[orowyrm]

im an audiobook guy forever i ❤️ listening to someone talk into my ears while doing menial tasks as opposed to sitting down and watching something or reading something. i absorb information better that way i feel…. and also it’s harder for me to get bored LMAO

#it sucks cuz i like to read scientific papers and articles and textbooks but #it’s hard to find audio transcripts of these. #so unless there’s a documentary out there somewhere discussing the same concepts it’s gonna take me months to dig thru it

[bahoreal]

whenever i see someone on this site summarising a scientific article that is itself summarising a paper especially if that paper is about anything pharma/medicine i feel a great sense of impending doom. not that i don't trust randomers on the piss on the poor website but i always go and fact check against the actual paper and not once has someone summarising an article thats summarising a paper ever been like. right.

#the temptation to start a 'scientific misinformation' sideblog where people can just send me things people write to fact check #the one i just saw was a diagnostic tool for CFS and the person summarising was like THEY CAN DIAGNOSE IT NOW THEYRE TESTING DRUGS USING IT #1. no 2. no #diagnosis is a tricky beast and the more you know about biomarkers the more it becomes ??????????? #and literally nowhere in the article or the paper did it say they were testing drugs using it #it said 'we hope to repurpose this so it can be used as a tool to measure drug efficacy' #anyway. dont trust people to communicate science effectively here #the articles are usually pretty good but the tumblrised summaries are not. im gonna become a one-person community notes just for science

[covenawhite66]

The study shows that in prehistoric Patagonia, these predators included dinosaurs from two groups: Megaraptoridae and Unenlagiinae.

Enantiornithines: were the most diverse and abundant birds millions of years ago; they resembled sparrows, but with beaks lined with teeth.

Ornithurae includes all modern birds living today; the ornithurines living in ancient Patagonia may have resembled a goose or duck, though the fossils are too fragmentary to tell for sure.

You’ve got your large theropod carnivores and smaller carnivores as well as these bird groups coexisting alongside other reptiles and small mammals.”

#paleontology #biology #dinosaurs #birds #science #scientific discovery #fossils #chile #cretaceous period #evolution #article #scientific paper

[felisglacialis-stuff]

Fossil findings suggest cave lion hunting for fur in Spain, ~16.800 years ago

Here is a summary and some citations of the following paper:

Under the skin of the lion: unique evidence of upper paleolithic exploitation and use of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the lower gallery of La Garma (Spain).  Marián Cueto et al, 2016. PlosOne.

Links:

- The original paper - A printable PDF version - Popular scientific artible

The researchers carbon dated and analysed human caused cut marks on the distal phalanges (claws) of one cave lion individual found in Spain. The cut marks and location of the claw bones found in the archeological site, indicate the use of cave lion fur by which the claws are meant to remain attached to the pelt, although this is hard to confirm from fossil analysis. The results suggest that paleolithic humans living around 16800 BP in Spain hunted and skinned cave lions. The data are insufficient to draw conclusions about the scale in which this happened. The authors say that cave lion hunting could have been sporadic given the very few fossils found with human caused cut marks. However, they also say that by means of extrapolation from both archeological data as well as from data on modern lions, that cave lion (and generally large carnivore) hunting could have happened at larger scale which may have contributed to cave lion extinction in Europe. 

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Abstract (the author's summary) "Pleistocene skinning and exploitation of carnivore furs have been previously inferred from archaeological evidence. Nevertheless, the evidence of skinning and fur processing tends to be weak and the interpretations are not strongly sustained by the archaeological record. In the present paper, we analyze unique evidence of patterned anthropic modification and skeletal representation of fossil remains of cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Lower Gallery of La Garma (Cantabria, Spain). This site is one of the few that provides Pleistocene examples of lion exploitation by humans. Our archaeozoological study suggests that lion-specialized pelt exploitation and use might have been related to ritual activities during the Middle Magdalenian period (ca. 14800 cal BC). Moreover, the specimens also represent the southernmost European and the latest evidence of cave lion exploitation in Iberia. Therefore, the study seeks to provide alternative explanations for lion extinction in Eurasia and argues for a role of hunting as a factor to take into account".

Some citations from the discussion

"In Western Europe there are also cave lion fossils (e.g., (49) and references therein, (50, 51) but only a few has human modifications (52). Those remains with evidence of anthropic taphonomic damage indicate exceptional lion hunting events and exploitation related to use of the skin, tendons, and teeth as raw materials (14,27) ."

"An interesting note is that these marks are present in same zones associated with the modern veterinary operation of declawing (onychectomy surgery) of domestic felines (53). Moreover, this is also the technique used by modern hunters when skinning their prey when the aim is to keep the claws attached to the fur."

"The presence of carnivores in Pleistocene and Holocene sites is commonly associated with fur use (e.g. 54,65). The inferred exploitation patterns can be linked with large and small carnivore pelt exploitation (e.g., 15,17,19, 25, 66, 67), according to historic, ethnographic, and actualistic observations for fur procurement resulting in usable carnivore skins (68, 70), which are also applicable to the _LG_ cave lion remains."

"The hypothesis of the presence of a single lion would suggest a sporadic, isolated, and rare event of large carnivore hunting, as indicated (although other scenarios cannot be excluded, like scavenging) in ancient chronologies (15). However, the well-defined pattern inferred from the locations of the cut-marks and scraping traces permits us to infer an experienced procedure and a high knowledge of animal anatomy. Furthermore, the presence of the remains of other carnivores, such as bears (_Ursus arctos_), at the site that also show anthropic modifications, reveal the successful hunting of dangerous carnivores, as has also been observed at other Magdalenian sites (e.g., 52,67,82)."

"The potential linkage of the presence of a cave lion skin in such an archaeological context with ritual activities (35) allows us to infer a probable important role of the cave lion during the Magdalenian period among human groups."

“Although these remains are not sufficient to allow conclusive statements to be made, they sum the data to highlight the role of human activity in the extinction of carnivores, as has been suggested for other geographical areas, in addition to other factors such as climate change, prey numbers, or species replacement (e.g., 23-30)  also summarized in (31))."

"Modern case studies have demonstrated that a decrease in extant African lions can be related to direct human intervention through rapid habitat destruction, depletion of resources, and over-hunting (91,92) In this sense, we associate this well-defined lion skinning exploitation pattern from _LG_ with a previously practiced activity reached through intense hunting during the Upper Paleolithic. A tentative proposal might be to link this knowledge to an important role in human culture resulting in a key factor that should be taken into account to understand cave lion extinction."

Conclusion "In conclusion, we suggest that this outstanding evidence of specialized and patterned skinning exploitation of cave lions in the Upper Paleolithic, as inferred in _LG_, can be viewed as a complex hominin-carnivore interaction scenario. Its association with ritual activities provides key evidence for approaching behavioral issues in relation to cultural traditions and speculative alternative explanations to cave lion extinction during the Late Pleistocene, assuming a role for human hunting as a determining factor, among others. Further research will be needed to test this hypothesis, for answer to the questions addressed in order to contribute to the debate with new data, although the problem is a complex one."

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> The numbers are the references that you can find in the original paper. > I may post more summary/citation compilations like this about various topics.

#scientific article #scientific paper #paleobiology #cave lion #hunting #science #biology #human-carnivore interaction

[electriccenturies]

hatehatehate how anxious I get saying something 100% true (but unfun) about gender medicine/research :( i feel like someone is gonna yell at me for that prostate tissue post but I couldn't help myself because goddamn, people in the notes are all confirmation biasing it up...

"oh yeah anecdotally sooooo many FtMs enjoy anal more after starting T so this makes perfect sense!" WELL. That may be so, but it's not because there's a prostate up there since the prostate tissue grows in the VAGINA. Which they'd know if they read even just the TITLE of the article they're talking about!!!

#im in such a bad mood about this i've been seeing conservatives and their sort of detrans allies misinterpret this article too on twitter #for AGES and it's SO ANNOYING!!!! and now here too! don't cite scientific papers you didn't read/understand im begging 😭

[vanilla-voyeur]

Pop feminist blogs are always making posts like "Study shows MEN think this horrible thing about WOMEN". And then you look at the study and the methodology was just to take like 100 guys from the professor's psych class (mostly white, Christian, and middle class) and ask them things about women. The journal's impact factor is 1.5.

For a study to reveal the secret misogynistic things all men are thinking, it needs to at bare minimum ask men about BOTH men and women and also ask women about both men and women. (Bonus points if you remember nonbinary people exist.) If you don't do that then you can't really distinguish between whether it's because men are misogynists or everyone is misogynistic or women and men think differently about a thing or women and men don't understand the opposite gender or everyone is a misanthrope or option I didn't anticipate but neither did you.

#Pop feminism #Misogyny #Misandry #They need to teach everyone how to read scientific papers in highschool #Every news/blog article about any topic that starts with “study shows” can be replaced with “study shows I dont know jack about science” #That said. dont commit the fallacy fallacy

[chaos-gnoblin]

DID YOU KNOW that the rough-skinned newt and the common garter snake co-evolved because the newt developed toxins so it wouldn't get eaten but then the snake developed resistance to the toxins but then the newt got stronger toxins and the snake resisted them and so on and so forth and anyway the moral of the story is that you shouldn't eat a rough-skinned newt because it can lead to paralysis and death by asphyxiation

#they're so cool #the newts #I guess the snakes too #science! #I technically got my information from the wikipedia article on the rough-skinned newt but I went and found the original source #so enjoy that if you like reading scientific papers #science #biology

[tchaikovskym]

did not write anything new to lit review, however, i did add another citation to a sentence i've already written, so that's something.

#uni thinking process #im full on skimming articles mode #sorry reading scientific papers im a busy woman

[monkeydlesbian]

live fyfa reaction opening up the canine speciation essay google doc

#IM SO TIREDDDBDSJHJASFLKFHKUDSGALG #if i can't find out how foxes speciated specifically through a peer-reviewed scientific article im going to go absolutely nuts #im thinking allopatry but i literally cannot find a scientific article telling me if im correct im gonna go insane #im going to beat my evolution professors ass for having a term paper due and an exam on the same day

[husedu]

#sci-hub #scihub #research paper #scientific article #pdf books #free pdf download #كتب pdf #pdf #thesis

[onidaki]

NOOOOOOO WDYM MY UNI DOES NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CONTENT WHY ACADEMIC PAPERS ARE BEHIND PAYWALLS I HATE IT HERE

#scientific papers should be free science should be for improvement of society what do you mean i wont be able to read any articles once i gr #once i graduate?????????

[covenawhite66]

Paleontologists analyzed five fossils of an early Cretaceous bird, Sapeornis chaoyangensis, in order to study how the environment they were buried in changed the preservation of their soft tissue.

The site of Jehol Biota in China is famous for stunning fossils which preserve soft tissue—skin, organs, feathers, and fur.

The most likely explanation for how well the fossil is preserved is that the bird was swept away by a rainstorm and rapidly buried at the bottom of a lake, where a restricted burial environment ensured it wasn't disturbed. It is unlikely that it was from volcanic activity Since fossils in pyroclastic flows don't preserve soft tisdue

Discovery of five specimens of early bird Sapeornis chaoyangensis

The Jehol Biota, one of the most important Mesozoic fossil Lagerstätten, comprises extraordinary taxonomic diversity of micro- and megaplants, invertebrates, and vertebrates; moreover, it provides the most informative source for understanding Mesozoic ecology.

Fossil soft tissues contain important and irreplaceable information on life evolution, and on the comprehensive understanding of the nature of Mesozoic ecosystems. Compared to other fossil soft tissues, Jehol Biota feathers are more commonly reported. However, taphonomic analysis of these feathers is lacking. Here,

#paleontology #fossil #mesozoic #birds #feathers #science #biology #article #scientific research #discovery #scientific paper #scientific discovery

[snowthornes]

Was going to sleep more than an hour ago. Then got lost in the wilds trying to compile references for my OC's outfits. Now here I stand, at a quarter to six. Hell yea embellishments. lapels. waistcoats. accents. shin guards. capes. tailcoats. dress shirts. archer rings. lapel chains. finger chains.

#due to my Can't Draw Shit stat #i have had to go down the scientific route #aka scour multiple pinterest boards and fashion articles for visuals and terms for what the outfits look like #my Research Keyword Abilities (honed from trawling through multiple research papers) are being put to good use . in this ungodly hour . #also i am slowly but surely learning how to describe fashion through text. i have taken notes and Everything. tho i still have long to go #... how would i even go about describing a loose and elegant style. is that a thing 😔 #head in hands #anyways #good night!!!

[aimlay7research]

What are the 5 Types of Scientific Journals?

As a scientist, it is essential to stay up to date with the latest research and findings in your field. One of the best ways to do this is by reading Scientific Journals. Scientific journals are publications that provide a platform for scientists to share their research and advancements in their fields. In this article, I will discuss the importance of scientific journals, the different types of scientific journals available, and how many scientific journals are there.

Introduction to Scientific Journals

Scientific journals are publications that are dedicated to the dissemination of research findings, theories, and reviews. They are a valuable source of information for researchers, academics, and students. Scientific journals are usually published on a regular basis, and each issue contains research articles, reviews, and other related content. Scientific journals are also peer-reviewed, which means that the articles published in these journals have been reviewed by experts in the field before publication.

Importance of Scientific Journals

Scientific journals play an essential role in the scientific community. They provide a platform for scientists to share their research findings and advancements in their field. This sharing of knowledge helps to advance science and technology, leading to new discoveries and innovations. Scientific journals also provide a way for scientists to communicate with each other, share ideas, and collaborate on research projects.

Scientific journals are also an excellent resource for students and researchers who are new to a field. They can learn about the latest research and theories in their field, which can help them to develop their own research projects. Furthermore, reading scientific journals can help researchers to identify research gaps and opportunities for further study.

Types of Scientific Journals

There are several types of scientific journals available, each with its own unique characteristics. In this section, I will discuss the five types of scientific journals.

Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journals

Peer-reviewed scientific journals are the most traditional and widely recognized type of scientific journal. These journals have a rigorous review process, where experts in the field review the articles to ensure that they meet the required standards for publication. Peer-reviewed journals are usually highly respected in the scientific community because the review process ensures that the research published in the journal is of high quality.

Open Access Scientific Journals

Open access scientific journals are becoming increasingly popular in the scientific community. These journals provide free access to their content, making scientific research available to anyone who wants to read it. The idea behind open access journals is to promote the sharing of scientific knowledge and to make research more accessible to a wider audience.

Hybrid Scientific Journals

Hybrid scientific journals are a combination of traditional subscription-based journals and open access journals. These journals offer both subscription-based and open access options, allowing authors to choose how their articles are published. This model is becoming more popular as it allows researchers to publish their work in a highly respected journal while also making it available to a wider audience.

Review Articles

Review articles are a type of scientific journal that provides an overview of a particular topic or field. These articles are usually written by experts in the field and include a summary of the latest research, theories, and developments in the field. Review articles are a great way to learn about a field quickly and to identify research gaps or opportunities for further study.

Rapid Communication Scientific Journals

Rapid communication scientific journals are a type of scientific journal that publishes short articles that report significant research findings. These articles are usually published quickly after the research is conducted, allowing researchers to share their findings with the scientific community as soon as possible. Rapid communication journals are becoming increasingly popular because they provide a way for researchers to share their findings quickly and efficiently.

How Many Scientific Journals are There?

It is difficult to determine the exact number of scientific journals because new journals are being created all the time, and existing journals are often discontinued. However, it is estimated that there are over 30,000 scientific journals currently in publication. This number is expected to continue to grow as more researchers and scientists publish their work.

Conclusion

Scientific journals play a critical role in the scientific community. They provide a platform for scientists to share their research findings and advancements in their field. There are several different types of scientific journals available, each with its own unique characteristics. Peer-reviewed journals are the most traditional and widely recognized type of scientific journal, while open access journals are becoming increasingly popular. Hybrid journals, review articles, and rapid communication journals are also important types of scientific journals. With over 30,000 scientific journals currently in publication, researchers and scientists have a wealth of resources at their disposal to help them stay up to date with the latest research and findings in their field.

#paper writing #research paper #researchwriting #scientific journals #peer review #Review Articles

[strawberrystaryy]

i hate paywalls so much. you know what i hate even more? not even being able to buy the perfect article but have to be in a SPECIFIC INSTITUTION to have to get it. there’s no way for me to even access this.

#research articles #scientific articles #scientific papers #research #paywalls #uni