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ArcticDagger

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  • Want to sign up to Facebook/Meta Messenger, how can I mitigate the privacy invasion as much as possible?

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  • DR HANKS

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  • Human echolocation can be taught

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  • Awesome, that seems like a great find!

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    Human echolocation can be taught

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-025-00657-4
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    Human echolocation can be taught

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-025-00657-4
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    Periodic cooking of eggs

    www.nature.com /articles/s44172-024-00334-w
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    Periodic cooking of eggs

    www.nature.com /articles/s44172-024-00334-w

  • womp womp

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  • Metrosexual. Or European.

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  • Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

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  • Good point

    I believe the original article is open access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8243

    In there, they show the following figure (figure 6):

    Where the authors say that 12 μg/ml microplastics in the blood is representative for humans

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    Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-025-00178-0
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    Microplastics block blood flow in the brain, mouse study reveals

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-025-00178-0
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    Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-04215-2
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    Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-04215-2
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    Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-024-08154-w
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    Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-024-08154-w
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    Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-024-07500-2
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    Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-024-07500-2
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    Hybrid working from home improves retention without damaging performance

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-024-07500-2

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • That's okay. If you view the journals as glorified blogs, I agree that they're unnecessary. They aren't and do more than that even though they're also doing a lot of bad stuff with sky high profit margins. If you're not open for changing your views, I don't see the point of discussing any more. Appreciate the back and forth, tho!

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • If I understand you correctly: Yes, the article can have a typesetting like whatever you get out-of-the-box from Latex and that article can then be published anywhere. What is typically not allowed is to openly publish the article that have been typeset by the journal where you've sent in your article. This is probably what you mean by "preamble/theme"

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • No, that's not what I said. You're right that journals, to some extent, also lends credibility to the publication, but it's not the source of credibility. What I said was that an article published in Nature will have many more views than an article published on a random WordPress blog.

    Again, saying that researchers "agree to have it that way" ignores the structural difficulty of changing the system by the individual. The ones who benefit the most from changing the system are also the ones most dependent on external funding - that is, young researchers. Publishing in low-impact journals (ones that has a small outreach such as most open-access journals) makes it much harder to apply for funding

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • The typeset article is what you'd see if you download the .pdf from, e.g., Nature.

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    It's the manuscript with all the stuff that distinguishes an article from one journal to another (where is the abstract, what font type, is there a divider between some sections, etc.). Articles that have not been typeset yet can be seen from Arxiv, for example this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04391

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • There are several benefits, but compared to WordPress, I guess the biggest one is outreach: no one will actually see an article if it's published by a young researcher that hasn't made a name for themselves yet. It will also not be catalogued and will therefore be more difficult to find when searching for articles.

    Also, calling researchers "whipped" is a bit dismissive to the huge inertia there is in the realm of scientific publication. The scientific journal of Nature was founded in 1869, but general open-access publishing has only really taken off in the last decade or so.

  • Nature saying the quiet part out loud.

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  • You will transfer the economic copyright to most journals upon publication of the typeset manuscript meaning that you're not allowed to publish that particular PDF anywhere. However, a lot of journals are okay with you publishing the pre-peer reviewed article or even sometimes the peer-reviewed, but NOT typeset article (sometimes called post-print article). Scientific publishing is weird :-)

  • LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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  • Thanks, and yes, you're correct

  • LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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  • LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

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    LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-02527-x
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    LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-02527-x

  • Is Sleep Training Harmful?

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  • Plenty. If you scroll down, there's tens of research articles linked. You just have to click on the circles for most of the articles :-)

    Here's an excerpt from the bottom of the article':

    The most conclusive long-term study on sleep training to date is a 2012 randomized controlled trial on 326 infants, which found no difference on any measure—negative or positive—between children who were sleep trained and those who weren’t after a 5 year follow up. The study includes measurements of sleep patterns, behavior, cortisol levels, and, importantly, attachment.

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    Is Sleep Training Harmful?

    pudding.cool /2024/07/sleep-training/

  • FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

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  • That's an interesting point. But maybe there are some compounds that can induce a state that fools people who've never tried psychoactive compounds? I've heard of studies using dehydrated water as a placebo for alcohol as it induces some of the same effects:

    Like ethanol, heavy water temporarily changes the relative density of cupula relative to the endolymph in the vestibular organ, causing positional nystagmus, illusions of bodily rotations, dizziness, and nausea. However, the direction of nystagmus is in the opposite direction of ethanol, since it is denser than water, not lighter.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water

  • FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

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  • To a certain extent I agree, but I also think it's a tricky topic that deals a fair bit with the ethics of medicine. The Atlantic has a pretty good article with arguments for and against: https://web.archive.org/web/20230201192052/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/the-placebo-debate-is-it-unethical-to-prescribe-them-to-patients/250161/

    Yes, in your three situations, I'd agree that option C is the best one. But you're disregarding a major component of any drug: side effects. Presumably ecstasy has some nonnegligible side effects so just looking at the improvement on the treated disease might now show the full picture

  • FDA rejects ecstasy as a therapy: what’s next for psychedelics?

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  • I agree that it's a shame that it's so difficult to eliminate the placebo effect from psychoactive drugs. There's probably alternative ways of teasing out the effect, if any, from MDMA therapy, but human studies take a long time and, consequently, costs a lot of money. I'd imagine the researchers would love to do the studies, but doesn't have the resources for it

    I think the critique about conflicts of interest seems a bit misguided. It's not the scientists who doesn't want to move further with this. It's the FDA