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I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.
And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.
So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.
The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.
Thank God someone bothered to check.
>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.
Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.
Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll
Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)
Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un
Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though
That should be enough
how did they not fucking account for this. sorry but this is really really stupid
this is so funny.
@3liza they didn’t account for it because they didn’t realize it was an issue. The particles the gloves are shedding are not microplastics but they are similar enough in composition and under an electron microscope that because the scientists didn’t know to account for them, they didn’t realize that’s what they were seeing.
Also they DID account for contamination in WET sample preparation, because they’d already learned previously that the nitrile gloves could contaminate wet samples, but this was the first discovery that they were contaminating DRY or AIRBORNE samples as well.
All of this was very clearly laid out in just the last provided link - i didn’t even have to read all of them to learn this, I read like 3 paragraphs of the nautil.us article and I was able to learn what happened and why it hadn’t been accounted for.
Like, I understand the frustration, but this is the sort of thing that has to be DISCOVERED before it can be accounted for, and this is what that kind of discovery looks like, and berating scientists for not already knowing something science hadn’t yet learned is kind of a pointless and bad faith approach to things.
We’ve learned that a lot of the studies done on microplastics in our environment were not actually accurate, and had unintentionally incorrectly inflated numbers of microplastics in their samples due to this issue, which means that while microplastics are still obviously a problem, they’re not as overwhelming large of a problem than we thought! This is a good thing! Science has done its job and we have learned new things and can now do even better science! There’s no reason to be angry at or berate the scientists who’ve gone before. We know better now. That’s the important part.
Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.
ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.
I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output
For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".
I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.
To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.
I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.
What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-
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Oh I hate this so much, incredible job OP
Rick Rolled a entire stadium full of people, epic.
to all my researchers, students and people in general who love learning: if you don't know this already, i'm about to give you a game changer
connectedpapers
the basic rundown is: you use the search bar to enter a topic, scientific paper name or DOI. the website then offers you a list of papers on the topic, and you choose the one you're looking for/most relevant one. from here, it makes a tree diagram of related papers that are clustered based on topic relatability and colour-coded by time they were produced!
for example: here i search "human B12"
i go ahead and choose the first paper, meaning my graph will be based around it and start from the topics of "b12 levels" and "fraility syndrome"
here is the graph output! you can scroll through all the papers included on the left, and clicking on each one shows you it's position on the chart + will pull up details on the paper on the right hand column (title, authors, citations, abstract/summary and links where the paper can be found)
you get a few free graphs a month before you have to sign up, and i think the free version gives you up to 5 a month. there are paid versions but it really depends how often you need to use this kinda thing.
researchrabbit works similarly. you do need to create an account to use it, but it is completely free (as far as I know), meaning no limits to your collections/graphs.
things ppl often get wrong in academia AUs (specifically ones in modern university settings with focus on graduate students & professors):
no one is spending enough time complaining about writing
hierarchy is wrong. your grad student TA is not a professor or faculty and might not even be considered an employee. that 32 year old man is not a full professor no matter how talented he is or how old you think 30+ is, and he should be talking more about "the tenure clock"
grad students only ever taking or TAing classes & never doing research or working on their thesis/dissertation. there are masters programs with no thesis component so i'm sure there are ones that have no research requirement, but you can't get a PhD only taking classes
everyone has too much money. but also if it's set in the US there's an obsession with accumulating student debt for positions that generally you would not have to take out loans for
relationship with academic advisor never sufficiently unhinged
not enough discussion of stats where it's obvious everyone only barely understands what's happening
"what is a sufficiently unhinged student-advisor relationship?"
link to the article
"I got so angry that ISIS was disrupting the research." -> Said on record to a journalist in the actual middle of an interview.
Yeah I think that's a sufficiently unhinged academic.
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Making a (somewhat) historically accurate 1930s cheongsam
It’s summer holiday for me already and I have plenty of free time, so I decided to try my hand at making a 1930s style cheongsam. I started this in freaking April and only finished now because of supplies ;3 I’ve never made any cheongsam from the 30s before so this is gonna be half tutorial half me trying to figure stuff out. I cannot guarantee 100% historical accuracy, although I try my best. I don’t think people will actually follow this and make a whole cheongsam, but if someone does, please tell me about it and feel free to ask any questions :D
You can read about 1930s Chinese fashion in this post.
The design
I wanted to make something glamorous that exaggerates some typical features of the 30s such as the wide, shiny binding, tall collar and drapey floor length skirt. I was heavily inspired by this one worn by 阮玲玉 Ruan Lingyu.
Source here
I’m gonna make something like this: short sleeves, floor length skirt, slits up to mid thigh (so I can show off my lace petticoat uwu), 厂字襟 (厂 shaped closure), with double row wide binding and a really tall collar with three buttons.
However, since I wasn’t able to find a similar fabric in my local fabric stores’ websites, I decided to go for a green polka dot cotton poplin which did exist in the 1930s and is also great for my budget. For the pankou, I chose elaborate floral ones for the collar and front closure and plain white 一字扣 yizikou for the side, a common historical practice. The binding will be made from green and white polyester satin; polyester did exist in the 30s as well and was a popular novelty choice. This cheongsam is for summer so it will be unlined, plus the poplin is stiff enough to hold its own shape.
Pattern drafting
Now, prior to the 1950s, cheongsam makers used 平裁 pingcai, the historical Chinese method of pattern making without any darts, tucks or shaped pattern pieces. The whole gown is cut as one continuous piece with the fabric folded over twice. By doing this, the center front, center back and shoulder would be on fold and have no seams. Unlike historical hanfu pieces which were very, very big and required additional front pieces, 30s cheongsam were slender and didn’t require them, meaning there is no 中缝 zhongfeng, center front seam. Instead, the front piece is cut open at the 大襟 dajin, the front closure. Since I don’t own any period originals, I cannot use their pattern, so I followed this tutorial on bilibili to draft my own. It’s in Chinese but I think you can still understand with her calculations and drawing. I have no idea if this is what people used back then, but the end result is pretty convincing and the idea is legit so I guess it’s alright. She did use a bust dart though, just ignore that.
So this is the finished pattern on paper. There is the main piece, the collar piece and the placket (which I will need two pieces of). The equations are from the tutorial, I don’t know why they are like that. There are no darts or tucks, and the main bodice is cut twice on fold. The overall length is 145cm and I’m 168cm tall so it should be just about floor length for me. The slit is 60 cm, sitting on the middle of my thigh, which is accurate to around 1934-36. The collar is 8cm tall, which was tall even for the 30s but still within the acceptable range, and it’s cut on fold as well. The placket doesn’t have to be so wide but I want to have a nice big placket :))
You may have noticed that since the front is one piece and cut open at the front closure, there is no seam allowance for the placket/front seam so when the cheongsam is buttoned, it will be slightly distorted. There is a commonly used historical method for countering this and there are multiple names for it; I’ve heard people call it 偏襟法 pianjinfa, bias closure method, or 归拔 guiba, which is a general term for abusing the bias cut in dressmaking. It’s explained with diagrams in this article and this one. Hopefully as I start explaining it will make sense.
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Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!