The way they are weaponising the (generally very unnecesary) gendering of products to raise trans awareness. Nice.
I always laugh at the “it’s not PERFUME it’s COAL because it’s for MEN” things but if they make a period product like cups or towels or tampons called MANstruation I’d legit just buy some at the store and distribute it
This is what shallan and adolin look like, desperate and sweaty, trying to convince kaladin to join the polycule as kaladin denies them for the 8th time
See the chap with glasses and an incredible moustache in the bottom right? that’s Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish doctor who ran the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin. It was largely his books, his research that the Nazis burned.
Everyone else in this photo is a trans person that Dr Hirschfeld worked with. This photo was taken at their christmas party.
It is important to note that this action was not an “oh, Nazis ALSO targetted other prople”. They directly linked Hirschfeld’s institute and research to claims of a Jewish plot to destroy German society.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is the EXACT same rhetoric being rolled out by prominent TERFs for the last few years including, yes, The Wizard Lady.
Antisemitism, racism, and transphobia/homophobia are ALWAYS linked together.
I was recently informed by a science professor I know that journals do not publish papers that don’t yield interesting results, and while I understand that journals would rather publish your paper on how you cured cancer than all the things you tried that didn’t, I am ENRAGED by this idea.
If you don’t publish the experiments that didn’t yield interesting results, people are going to waste time repeating them because when they look in the database and see nothing published on them, they’re going to assume the experiment hasn’t been done???
And then my professor told me that scientists just “assume that if the experiment would be relatively easy to set up, but there’s nothing published on it, that means someone has already done it with no significant results.” WHAT? That means we could be assuming that important experiments have been done just because they seem to be too easy???
Not to mention that this also encourages people to fudge results towards significance for career advancement because no one wants to spend YEARS on a project they don’t get any credit for.
This convention of the culture is DELAYING scientific progress, I guarantee it. Please let me be financially successful enough that I can start my own journal for publishing experiments with no significant results. I AM ANGRY AT THIS INEFFICIENCY.
There are multiple journals for stuff like this! Here’s a few I found in a quick search:
“The main aim of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results to publish the negative results so that newer generation of researchers should not waste their time and money repeating the same studies and finding the same unpublishable results.”
“The main objective of The All Results Journals focuses on recovering and publishing negative results, valuable pieces of information in Science.”
“ACS Omega is a global open-access journal for the publication of scientific articles that describe new findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science, without any perceived evaluation of immediate impact.”
Also shout-out to PeerJ, while not specifically for null/negative results I’ve had luck publishing a low-impact paper there before, and it’s open-source.
Not gonna lie, I was kinda banking on Tumblr knowing things like this and being ready to tell me before I managed to calm down and research it myself. Thank you for decreasing my rage. I certainly have enough of it to go around without acute rages.
PLOS One publishes based on whether the experiments are good and the data analysis is valid, not whether results are “important”, which I like a lot.
