Can you share examples of inappropriate figure manipulations that you have seen in manuscripts or journals with me? #biology #PlantScience
Michal Zweig
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BBSRC-funded PhD researcher in Prof. Paul Fraser's lab at Royal Holloway University.
Yam facts: Did you know that the widespread availability of oral contraceptives (progesterone) was only made possible by Mexican peasants trading Mexican yams with American/American-owned pharma companies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_barbasco_trade #PlantScience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_barbasco_trade #PlantScience
arthurgessler#Earthworms boost #crop #yields by more than 140 million metric tons annually — equivalent to one slice of bread in every loaf, for wheat alone. So if earthworms were a country, they’d be the world’s fourth largest producer of grain:
In this paper the researchers reanimated dead spiders to use them as gripping tools. Ew, to say the least. #biology #ethics
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201174
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201174
Can you share an example of a time when you thought a reviewer was being too vague in the feedback on your manuscript? #PeerReview #biology #academic #academicmastodon
What was the most helpful feedback you ever received from a reviewer on a manuscript? #PeerReview #biology #academic #academicmastodon
What are some examples of unprofessional comments reviewers have made on your manuscripts? #PeerReview #biology #academic #academicmastodon
When review reports are published in the supplementary data in a journal article who decides what gets excluded from the report, the journal or the author? I'm curious about who has control over what gets omitted. #PeerReview #PlantScience #biology #academic #academicmastodon
Using very clever and robust experimental designs, these researchers found that phosphate starvation, which begins with mild drought happens before an abscisic acid (a #phytohormone involved in the closing of leaf stomata to prevent water loss) response. These findings could have huge implications for developing #agriculture responses to #climatechange in terms of drought tolerance. #botany #PlantScience #PlantSci #cropscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40773-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40773-1
Phosphate starvation response precedes abscisic acid response under progressive mild drought in plants - Nature Communications
Even mild drought impacts crop production significantly. Here, the authors develop an experimental mild drought system induced by ridges in the field and find that phosphate starvation response occurs before ABA response in early mild drought.
Megan Lynch (she/her)Plant Awareness Disparity means folks don't actually learn as much about plants even from the photos. So the layperson looks at this and doesn't know they're looking at leaves from another species that have been propped near the apples because apparently the photographer didn't think apple leaves were photogenic enough (or they don't sell apple leaves at the supermarket).
But the different leaf forms of the species mean something about that plant..it's a mixed message. https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/111002403865550426
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Attached: 1 image Does an apple a day really keep the doctor away? 🍎 Apples may not be considered a superfood, but they are a functional food. A group of European researchers found that eating 2 apples a day improved heart health, and a group of Brazilian investigators found that eating 3 apples daily improved weight loss. More about functional foods and how eating apples helps boost your #health: https://theconversation.com/does-an-apple-a-day-really-keep-the-doctor-away-a-nutritionist-explains-the-science-behind-functional-foods-207191