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dumnezero t1_jebafc4 wrote
Reply to comment by QristopherQuixote in Automated enforcement of water conservation rules in Fresno, California led to a decrease in summer water use and violations of conservation rules (relative to households subject to in-person inspections). This program massively increased consumer complaints, ultimately causing its cancellation. by smurfyjenkins
/r/notjustbikes
dumnezero t1_jdw8wrb wrote
Reply to comment by TargetDroid in Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science by HeinieKaboobler
Yes, comments on reddit are unreliable. Here, a bit less so, but still mostly worthless.
dumnezero t1_jdvjc7d wrote
Reply to Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science by HeinieKaboobler
Very meta.
>A new study examined comments given on the Reddit forum “r/science” to discover how commenters express negative attitudes towards science. Results showed that these views are most often expressed by describing scientists as corruptible, poor communicators, and misleading. Commenters particularly negatively evaluated social sciences, especially psychology, calling it pseudoscientific. The study was published in the Public Understanding of Science.
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Batchelor, Jordan. "Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit." Public Underst. Sci., 12 Jan. 2023, p. 09636625221146453, doi:10.1177/09636625221146453.
>The public understanding of science has produced a large body of research about general attitudes toward science. However, most studies of science attitudes have been carried out via surveys or in experimental conditions, and few make use of the growing contexts of online science communication to investigate attitudes without researcher intervention. This study adopted corpus-based discourse analysis to investigate the negative attitudes held toward science by users of the social media website Reddit, specifically the forum r/science.
>A large corpus of comments made to r/science was collected and mined for keywords. Analysis of keywords identified several sources of negative attitudes, such as claims that scientists can be corruptible, poor communicators, and misleading. Research methodologies were negatively evaluated on the basis of small sample sizes. Other commenters negatively evaluated social science research, especially psychology, as being pseudoscientific, and several commenters described science journalism as untrustworthy or sensationalized.
And the mods should've removed all of those. Press that Nuke button, mods.
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Reply to comment by Ad_Honorem1 in Road Noise Makes Your Blood Pressure Rise – Literally | Study shows the sound of traffic is associated with increased risk of hypertension, calls for public health measures to reduce noise exposure by Hrmbee
They're the small number at the high end of the distribution.
dumnezero t1_jdmdl4u wrote
Reply to comment by Ad_Honorem1 in Road Noise Makes Your Blood Pressure Rise – Literally | Study shows the sound of traffic is associated with increased risk of hypertension, calls for public health measures to reduce noise exposure by Hrmbee
No, it's all the cars and motorcycles and even buses and trams (which should get more priority). I do like electric trolleys, they're pretty smooth.
dumnezero t1_jdm7s0j wrote
Reply to SARS-CoV-2 restructures host chromatin architecture - Nature Microbiology by Monochromaticeye
Is this a risk for oncogensis?
dumnezero t1_jd2dpuq wrote
Reply to comment by Haterbait_band in Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent
>maybe release a bunch of rabbits
The ranchers will kill the rabbits because they're competing with the cows for pasture.
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Reply to Humans are leading source of death for California mountain lions, despite hunting protections by marketrent
>Mortality risk increased for mountain lions closer to rural development and decreased in areas with higher proportions of citizens voting to support environmental initiatives. Thus, the presence of human infrastructure and variation in the mindset of humans sharing landscapes with mountain lions appear to be primary drivers of risk.
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Reply to According to large survey exotic pet owners were fascinated by rare attractive aesthetic features of species but they were concerned about species conservation and preferred captive-bred exotic pets. by congl1
Captive breeding is also horrible and the increased demand just means the wild caught animals will have to be "laundered" through the supply chain.
Do not make excuses for them, the exotic trade for animals and plants is terrible for the planet.
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Reply to A mixture of trees purifies urban air best: study found that conifers are generally better than broadleaved trees at purifying air from pollutants, but deciduous tree may be better at capturing particle-bound pollution by giuliomagnifico
Remove parking spaces, put trees there instead.
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Reply to comment by Normal-Flower4437 in Global food consumption alone could add nearly 1 °C to warming by 2100. Seventy five percent of this warming is driven by foods that are high sources of methane (ruminant meat, dairy and rice). by Plant__Eater
If you can read this text, you're likely in the world top 10%.
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Reply to comment by bonerb0ys in Global food consumption alone could add nearly 1 °C to warming by 2100. Seventy five percent of this warming is driven by foods that are high sources of methane (ruminant meat, dairy and rice). by Plant__Eater
what does methane degrade into?
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Reply to comment by Oggy385 in Global food consumption alone could add nearly 1 °C to warming by 2100. Seventy five percent of this warming is driven by foods that are high sources of methane (ruminant meat, dairy and rice). by Plant__Eater
All levers must be pulled, we should be at zero emissions yesterday.
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Reply to comment by wascilly_wabbit in Study reveals that although private automobiles continue to be the dominant travel mode in American cities, the share of car trips has slightly and steadily decreased since its peak in 2001. In contrast, the share of transit, non-motorized, and taxicab trips has steadily increased by giuliomagnifico
Wouldn't that be double-counting?
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Reply to comment by Art0fRuinN23 in Adults who were sexually abused in childhood have lower gray matter volume in specific brain region, study finds by DreamingForYouAlways
Increase intelligence by reading, start with the article
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Reply to comment by HierarchofSealand in Climate change, urbanization drive major declines in L.A.’s birds. 40% of bird species were present at fewer sites today than they were 100 years ago, while only 10% were present at more sites. Meanwhile, in the Central Valley, the proportion of species that experienced a decline (23%) by Wagamaga
It's about car dependent suburban sprawl.
dumnezero t1_j951hli wrote
Reply to Climate change and the projected savannization of the Brazilian Amazon threaten most land-based mammals that live there, new research shows. The “savannization” here refers to when lush rainforest gives way to a drier, open landscape that resembles savanna but is actually degraded forest. by MistWeaver80
It's ecocide and genocide.
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Reply to comment by Lonny_loss in Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thought in North America by BlitzOrion
Alpine meadows, natural ones, grow in places where it's hostile for trees. There are multiple stressors that are correlated with altitude.
Here's an intro article: https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/life/how-do-plants-cope-with-alpine-stress/
If you're thinking of semi-natural (man made) grasslands in mountainous areas, then, yes, the succession to trees is natural.
Mountains are hotspots of biodiversity. But the climate warming effect is known already: as the climate is warming, species are moving up the mountain, and it's not just plants. The mountain gets narrower towards the top, which leads to more crowding, and the species at the top already have nowhere to go.
dumnezero t1_j8wvq3v wrote
Reply to "Findings indicate a negative log-linear relationship between per-capita GDP and adolescent life satisfaction." by PaulHasselbaink
> PISA test scores and levels of student competition are consistently negative, and levels of student co-operation enter positively. It is interesting to note how, at the macro level, we find that average academic performance is negatively related to students’ SWB, while earlier studies focusing on the link between individual performance and individual life satisfaction usually report a positive link (see Bücker et al., 2018, for a meta study). Note that this is not a contradiction. At the individual level, a student can improve her SWB by performing better in school than her peers. However, at the macro level, overall academic performance and competition within schools increase learning intensity and school-related stress for each student, reducing SWB for the group as a whole. We therefore argue that the intensity of education—which increases with the level of economic development—is very likely to be the mechanism behind our findings.
All work and no play...?
dumnezero t1_j8wjlfu wrote
Reply to comment by Rakshear in Scientists find people with Long Covid have 2 major cytokines of the immune system (IL-8, IFN-γ) reduced by 100% by sagdiyev1
From the paper:
>Also referred to as the neutrophil chemotactic factor, IL-8 recruit’s neutrophils and NK-cells to sites of inflammation where they can clear infected cells and promote wound healing.
>It is possible that the apparent lack of IL-8 in long-COVID patients may be responsible for at least some of the debilitating symptoms including post-exertional malaise, fatigue, and persistent cough, shortness of breath and chest pain.
>In this scenario, the acute SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the lungs, the cytokine milieu unfolds as described above, recruiting cells to the site of damage where the cells can either (a) help control the infection and induce a wound healing environment and the individual recovers normally; or (b) the infection causes abundant cellular infiltration leading to a high concentration of immune cells in a relatively small physical space, ultimately causing more tissue damage, which is not efficiently repaired in the absence of IL-8.
>Predictably, under scenario ‘b’ the individual remains having difficulty with oxygen transfer from the lungs into the blood stream. Therefore, if the macrophages and other cells that secrete IL-8 become exhausted or are otherwise incapable of secreting IL-8, neutrophils will not be recruited to assist in the wound healing process in the lung once the infection has been cleared [63]. Scenario ‘b’ therefore emerges as a potential model to explain certain long-COVID complications based on lack of IL-8.
>IFNγ is secreted by the innate immune Natural Killer cells (NK) and Natural Killer T cells (NKT) as well as the adaptive immune CD4+ Th1 and CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (CTL) after the development of antigen-specific immunity [64]. Together with IL-12, IFNγhelps drive the differentiation of Th1 cells, which in turn can secrete IL-2, TNFα, and IFNγ [65]. The observed lack of circulating IFNγ (Figure 1 and Table 2) in the plasma of patients suggests either severe immune dysfunction or exhaustion.
The war in the lungs is over, but there are too many soldiers still there, hanging out, causing drama. What's not happening: they need to be transported away and the engineering+construction crews need to come in to start rebuilding.
dumnezero t1_j8wigeu wrote
Reply to comment by socokid in Scientists find people with Long Covid have 2 major cytokines of the immune system (IL-8, IFN-γ) reduced by 100% by sagdiyev1
The important part is:
>Based on our results we propose that immune exhaustion perpetuates long-COVID due to the seemingly complete reduction of IFNγ and IL-8, as well as significant decreases in IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-13, and IL-17. Identifying these and other deficiencies will provide clues towards methods to intervene and possibly restore immune function in the context long-COVID. Although functional assays that test the ability of immune cells from individuals with long-COVID to respond to pathogenic stimuli will be required to support this theory.
dumnezero t1_j8jp4oi wrote
Reply to comment by cardcommander7147 in High coffee consumption may triple kidney disease risk in some people by LordNPython
Caffeine is the problem they highlight, so decaf should be fine.
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Reply to comment by AskMoreQuestionsOk in The advantages of living in cities for children and adolescents’ healthy growth and development are shrinking across much of the world, according to new study. by chrisdh79
Height isn't necessarily an advantage, height is correlated with a bunch of health problems related to circulation and nerves. There are also associations with diseases, here's a fun article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10517