Overly Honest Methods in science.

ooh this version has some ones i haven’t seen before, priceless

  #we chose macrocystis because every other kelp was rotting at that time of year    #we kept the crabs 12 to a sea table because we were sharing the space and couldnt use more    #the crabs were subject to a non-natural light cycle because other researchers kept leaving the lights on overnight (via Dicrocoeliumdendriticum)

Archaeologist. We sometimes choose places to dig because our gut says “this is nice, I’d settle here”. I’ve had field directors say “this has paleo energy” about areas. Often we see big hill in our dig area, we dig on big hill. 

Most recently, I’ve found two sites because I was walking to my next hole and saw some petrified wood I wanted. Started picking up pieces and saw a half buried biface lmao. 

Other site, I was walking and imagined a little native girl running along the ridge. I had a gut feeling to dig like 5m from where the hole was. Found a utilized petrified wood flake. Could’ve written it off as a plow fact, but due to all the pet wood I’d been collecting throughout the area (I’m a greedy little thing who wants pretty rocks), I knew the was it was broken was inconsistent to how the pet wood naturally breaks. 

What sealed the deal for me was cleaning the mud off, and it cut me so, yup, definitely utilized. 

So glad you commented this because I was looking for the term for “people saw a pretty rock and took it with them” forEVER now and couldn’t find it. Fuckin love manuports

eternal human urges:

Fans' attitudes toward AI-generated works

Irina Cisternino, a PhD candidate of Stony Brooke University, is writing their research on topics related to technology, art and fandom. You can participate by filling out a survey and additionally, signing up for an interview. The survey is expected to last until at least the end of April, those, who signed up for the interview, will be contacted later. You need to be at least 18 years old to participate in either, be able to understand and speak English and identify as a fan.

After the completion of the research, it will be accessible as the dissertation of the researcher. If you have further questions, you can contact Irina Cisternino at [email protected] or Lu-Ann Kozlowsky at [email protected].

Ok so initial information on Tumblr polls for those who are curious:

-You do not get a notification when people vote on your poll (waiting to see if you get a notification to say that your poll results are ready once the poll closes)

-YOU as the poll creator cannot see the voting data (as in which option is winning) of an active poll unless you vote in it yourself.

-Votes are anonymous, you can't see who voted on your poll.

-You can only put one poll on an individual post. If you want to conduct multiple polls you have to make multiple posts.

-The options for how long a poll is open are VERY limited- either 1 day or 1 week.

EDIT: Adding this to this particular post just so the info remains compiled in one place:

-You can't add polls in reblogs

-If the original post is older than one week it is impossible to edit a functioning poll to the original post. The polls count the time limit based on the day the ORIGINAL POST was created, not the day the POLL was created. So when you grab an older post and edit a poll into it, once you save the post the poll will show up as a finished poll with zero votes.

And notice the tone the scientists researching this.

“What do you mean the fatties live longer? This CANNOT BE RIGHT DO THE STUDIES 15 MORE TIMES!”

And when they can’t figure it out, they simply say “it’s not worth reading” to keep anything POSITIVE about fat bodies from getting out into the public eye.

Because then folks might not but into the billion dollar industry for diet fads and weight loss scams that all of these obesity doctors line their pockets with.

Because then theyd actually have to start treating their fat patients like PEOPLE.

“Willett’s complaints are starting to look less credible, however, because no one has been able to make the paradox go away. One of the most popular explanations is that fat people get more aggressive treatment than thin people, because their weight raises red flags at the doctor’s office. This seems questionable: studies show that overweight and obese people tend to avoid doctors, get fewer preventive screenings, and receive worse treatment because they’re often misdiagnosed as “fat” rather than with a specific medical condition” 

Emphasis mine

Also, notice the phrasing.

“No one has been able to make the paradox go away”

They wanna get rid of that shit SO BAD. Because if fat people aren’t as OMG OBESITY CRISIS as folks love to scream, that means their fad diet scams and weight loss surgeries can’t make them millions anymore!

Fuck these obesity doctors. They outchea selling snake oil.

“One of the most popular explanations is that fat people get more aggressive treatment than thin people, because their weight raises red flags at the doctor’s office.”

*points and laughs*

I’m sorry, I’m just stuck on this part. That’s hilarious. An incomplete list of things where the suggested solution was “You should lose weight”: My badly broken ankle hurting, a severe bacterial sinus infection, panic attacks stemming from Complex PTSD …

Oh, wow this study has a pretty reputable source and a really big sample size.  Y’all could actually show this to the haters.

There are so many studies that show that ‘overweight’ people live longer, that fat people receive atrocious healthcare, that the ‘health risks’ of ‘obesity’ are WEIRDLY the exact same as those of yoyo dieting HMM I WONDER WHY THAT COULD BE, that longterm weight loss is impossible for all but 2-5% of people and those people sustain it by developing pervasive disordered food and exercise behaviours that would be correctly interpreted as mental illness is any context except Fatties Trying Appropriately Devoutly To Be Thin.

The evidence is THERE and it has BEEN THERE for decades now. People do not care. They want to smugly judge fat people and/or rake in 10s of billions of dollars a year convincing people to try not to be one of Those Bad Fat People. They do want to hear that being fat is just a body shape, with no moral value for good or ill. They do not want to hear that weight is as heritable as height. People get reeeeeaally super defensive when you ask them not talk about their endless dieting and attempts at weight loss around you, a fat person, whose body they are going to all this effort not to resemble.

Anyway join your local fat pos movement and fuck fatphobia forever.

Maybe the real paradox here lies in our assumptions about what constitutes normal weight.

BMI has always been about morality, not health.

we been know

“Toxic masculinity is learned behavior and the teaching of it is systematic and unhealthy.”

In other news, water is wet.

Its still important to have the research to back it up.

I get that tumblr likes to believe it’s the Most Progressive Place Ever and Knows All These Things And Always Has but ya’ll gotta understand how important research is in a socio-cultural context. Without research, actual hard work, time and rigourous testing of a hypothesis to determine its validity, reliability and generalisability, what you have with something like Toxic Masculinity is a “commonly held belief”. That’s it. Without research everything is an opinion and a supposition. Nothing more.

Research is paramount to affecting politics, legislation, regulations, social behaviours and media representations because, if there’s researching saying “women are statistically more likely to be paid less” or “men are socially conditioned to be aggressive” then it’s harder to refute or dismiss our claims and opinions which correspond with such research.

So yes, whilst we all have Known™ that toxic masculinity is what honestly makes men so abusive, aggressive and limited communicatively, you have to remember that without research backing all this Knowledge up, then it’s basically viewed as a group of random people screaming about something No One Else Really Cares About Or Believes.

Experiential knowledge, that stuff we know through experience, is often considered lesser than knowledge arising from science and medicine. Why? Because we’ve alloted a heck lot more respect and acceptance to scientific knowledge for the last four hundred years since Galileo decided to tell the world we’re not the centre of the universe and got burnt for it. Maybe in time our experiential knowledge will be respected more and, honestly, I do believe it should, but right now, unless you got stats and scientific methodology to back up what you say, the world at large don’t give much of a shit beyond the space you’ve carved with people who think like you.

Time to punch anyone who says “men will be men”

Science, testing, and all that is important.