{"id":14633,"date":"2012-11-24T16:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T15:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=14633"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:55:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T20:55:56","slug":"digest-tardivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2012\/11\/24\/digest-tardivo\/","title":{"rendered":"Digest tardivo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"–<\/em> Il sessismo di Nature<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

So here is a fuller litany of facts about\u00a0Nature\u2019s performance in this arena, based on internal surveys.<\/p>\n

Of the 70 editors and reporters around the globe who commission, select, write or oversee\u00a0Nature\u2019s daily and weekly content, 38\u00a0(54%) are women. This proportion is reflected among team leaders. We feel confident that there is no discrimination in the recruitment and hiring practices of\u00a0Nature\u00a0and its publishers; the same applies to the writers whom we employ as freelancers.<\/p>\n

Our performance as editors is much less balanced.<\/p>\n

Of the 5,514 referees who assessed\u00a0Nature\u2019s submitted papers in 2011, 14% were women.<\/p>\n

Of the 34 researchers profiled by journalists in 2011 and so far in 2012, 6 (18%) were women.<\/p>\n

Of externally written Comment and World View articles published in 2011 and so far in 2012, 19% included a female author.<\/p>\n

Conclusione:<\/span><\/p>\n

We therefore believe that there is a need for every editor to work through a conscious loop before proceeding with commissioning: to ask themselves, \u201cWho are the five women I could ask?\u201d<\/p>\n

– <\/span>Natasha Gilbert<\/a> dice che la prossima settimana verr\u00e0 diluita di brutto la legge europea per ridurre la concentrazione di estrogeni da contraccettivi che inquinano i corsi d’acqua e trasformano i pesci maschi in transessuali…; vedi anche <\/span>editoriale<\/a> sulle “guerre dell’acqua”;<\/span>
\n– <\/span>Jeff Tollefson<\/a> riassume la posta in gioco nei negoziati sul clima della <\/span>COP18<\/a> che si apre a Doha- altri <\/span>commenti<\/a> su <\/span>Nature Climate Change<\/em>
\n– <\/span>Quirin Schirmeier<\/a> parla con gli inglesi che vanno in Antartide a cercare microbi nel lago Ellsworth, sotto la sua crosta di ghiaccio. E ‘ il secondo a essere sondato dopo Vostok (russi), e gli americani stanno per provarci nel lago Whillans. Trovo irritante la retorica sugli ultimi spazi vergini ecc. e sarei per una moratoria finch\u00e9 si trovano mezzi meno brutali per penetrarli;<\/span>
\n– l’avevo segnalato quando era uscito on line, mi sembra, comunque \u00a0\u00e8 un tentativo di\u00a0ridurre l’incertezza nelle stime del ghiaccio antartico ricavate dai dati GRACE. <\/span>Matt King et al.<\/a> usano un modello di rimbalzo isostatico che limita la massa persa all’anno<\/span><\/p>\n

to the range 126 Gt\/yr\u00a0 to 29 Gt\/yr (0.08\u20130.35mm\/yr sea-level equivalent). We resolve 26 independent drainage basins and find that Antarctic mass loss, and its acceleration, is concentrated in basins along the Amundsen Sea coast. Outside this region, we find that West Antarctica is nearly in balance and that East Antarctica is gaining substantial mass.<\/p>\n

Solo<\/strong> 60-70 gigatonnellatine\/anno, un sollievo insomma.<\/span>
\n– anticipato on line, il <\/span>paper<\/a> di Brendan Choat e altri 23 ricercatori, segnalato da Paolo C., sulla “vulnerabilit\u00e0 delle foreste alla siccit\u00e0”. La cosa interessante \u00e8 che per la maggioranza delle specie il “margine di sicurezza” sembra costante in tutti gli ecosistemi e regimi di precipitazioni. Solo le conifere sono un po’ pi\u00f9 resistenti. Non tutte, almeno dalle ricerche sui pini di Douglas che ho visto in questi anni.<\/span><\/p>\n

One primary cause of productivity loss and plant mortality during drought is hydraulic failure. Drought stress creates trapped gas emboli in the water transport system, which reduces the ability of plants to supply water to leaves for photosynthetic gas exchange and can ultimately result in desiccation and mortality\u2026<\/p>\n

We show that 70% of 226 forest species from 81 sites worldwide operate with narrow (<1 megapascal) hydraulic safety margins against injurious levels of drought stress and therefore potentially face long-term reductions in productivity and survival if temperature and aridity increase as predicted for many regions across the globe. Safety margins are largely independent of mean annual precipitation, showing that there is global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought, with all forest biomes equally vulnerable to hydraulic failure regardless of their current rainfall environment. These findings provide insight into why drought-induced forest decline is occurring not only in arid regions but also in wet forests not normally considered at drought risk…<\/p>\n

Per deprimersi durante il week-end, Diego suggerisce invece <\/span>un rapporto<\/a> sulle centrali a carbone in programma.<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

Da Science<\/em><\/strong>
\n– editoriale di M.S. Swaminatha<\/a>n – dell’omonima fondazione<\/a> a Chennai – sulla lotta contro la fame, che (ri)fa questa proposta<\/p>\n

We also should aim to train one woman and one man in every village in nutrition literacy to serve as Community Hunger Fighters.<\/p>\n

Non solo nei villaggi, Doc.<\/span>
\n– nell’editoria scientifica in open access, <\/span>Martin Ensenrink<\/a> cerca di distinguere “il buono, il brutto e \u00a0il cattivo” e gli onesti dai predoni. Era lo scopo della conferenza che c’\u00e8 stata il mese scorso a Rotterdam su possibili indici di qualit\u00e0, ma per ora i modelli predittivi sono carenti. C’\u00e8 chi se ne approfitta:<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, many so-called predatory publishers\u2014which often eschew peer review, use fake editors, or contain plagiarized papers\u2014have flooded the market, says Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, who keeps an online list of these dodgy outfits. (The latest publisher added to his list just launched 141 new medical journals.<\/a>) \u201cAnybody can set up a publishing company in a matter of hours,\u201d Beall says. Many of the shady journals aren’t even on the\u00a0DOAJ<\/a>, he adds, which means that the actual number of OAs journal far exceeds that tally.<\/p>\n

(link miei, seguire il blog<\/a> di Jeffrey Beall per gli aggiornamenti)
\n– Continua il dibattito sull’origine del pollo domestico, dice <\/span>Andrew Lawler<\/a>, \u00e8 stata l’India o la Cina a inventare gli animali da cortile? Doveva rispondere il sequenziamento del genoma del <\/span>Gallus gallus<\/em>, uscito nel 2004, ma come quello umano ha solo suscitato altre domande. Un ecologo americano ha salvato dall’estinzione – nelle montagne natie dell’Himalaya – l’antenato comune alle razze attuali. Il minimo che poteva fare, visto che<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Americans ate 36 billion<\/strong> pounds of chicken<\/p>\n

Burp.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– Il sessismo di Nature: So here is a fuller litany of facts about\u00a0Nature\u2019s performance in this arena, based on internal surveys. Of the 70 editors and reporters around the globe who commission, select, write or oversee\u00a0Nature\u2019s daily and weekly content, 38\u00a0(54%) are women. This proportion is reflected among team leaders. We feel confident that… Continua a leggere Digest tardivo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,12],"tags":[4725,6166],"class_list":["post-14633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altri-animali","category-ambiente","category-clima","category-donne-e-scienza","tag-nature","tag-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41189,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14633\/revisions\/41189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}