O, I see. That makes sense. A bit of a bummer, because having a total number of likes would be more informative (imho) than only seeing the number of your own server.
You are mixing up the journal impact factor (how many times an article from a journal is cited over the last (generally) two years for a particular scientific journal) and and articles number of citations (the total number an article has been refered to by other articles.
Journals with a high JIF are generally harder to publish in, but this metric is quite misleading as it depends also on thr size of the field. Ophthalmology journals have overall smaller JIFs than Neurology journals.
Over the last ~5 years the JIF has fallen out of faver for various reasons (read about them here), but unfortunately it is still being used as a measure of 'how good your research is'.
More importantly, (good) scientists don't base their opinions on single studies, even if they are large. Surely, when there is only a single publication on a topic (e.g., right when the COVID pandemic startedany new researchon this topic received a lot of attention), that may have a large impact on their current beliefs and may spark new research, but more commonly, there are multiple studies on a single topic (e.g., now there are 100s of studies on the effect of COVID on cognitive function, isolation, etc) and a good scientist will try to keep up with all of them to form a conclusive opionin that weighs all these studies. It is common that at some point, a review article will be written up that summarizes the current knowledge from multiple studies (see my other comment).
I think retweeting is called boosting.
I was also wondering this and found the following:
How to subscribe to a relay Only instance admins can subscribe to a relay. In Mastodon you can do that by going to Settings > Administration > Relays. There you can enter the url of the relay - add "/inbox" at the end of it. Then you just have to wait for your instance to be accepted by the relay owners
Source: https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=Fediverse_relays&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop
Systematic reviews and meta-analysis combine information from multiple studies. In the former, these studies are interpreted together to see what the overall conclusion is. In the latter, data from multiple studies is actually reanalyzed to get an objective overall outcome. Some of these studies combine information from 10s or 100s of studies. Generally, most scientists believe the outcomes of these review papers to be the status quo of the field.
I don't have experience with darktable, but moving from Photoshop to Gimp, from InDesign to Scribus, and from Illustrator to Inkscape definitely tool me some time to transition and learn. I'd think that would be the same going from Lightroom to DarkTable. However, once you have invested in the new software, chances that you need to change again ik the future because of shitty expensive subscription models is slim. So I think it is worth putting in the effort.
Glad to hear your experience is different of mine. I hope you are right overall.
I can relate. My Zippo does not have a design as fancy as yours, but I bought mine on a vacation abroad and because of that it is special to me. Also, the sound a Zippo makes when opening, igniting, and closing it don't get old to me :)
Maybe if you buy a nice, more expensive one, e.g., a Zippo, you are more careful and keep track of it better? Just a thought.
For me that is not necessarily the case. Over the last week or so, I have been using sites like Lemmy Explorer and Lemmy Community-Browser to find communities that have my interest. I have also been browsing 'all' using the 'new' sort option and have been finding many new interesting communities that way.
And the shitty thing is that meat substitutes seem to be on their way out.
About a year ago, when beyond or impossible meat was the new thing (okay maybe a little bit further back), a lot of (fastfood) restaurants were offering these options: Denny's had a Beyond Burger, Panda Express offered beyond orange chicken and I can name at least two local chains that also stopped serving such meat alternative options.
It's a bit frustrating and sad, as it seems very few people really care about the rainforest, bio industry, or global warming enough to even consider alternative meat options.
Last week there was an article published about the USDA approving lab-grown chicken meat. Although I am very excited about this, I am expecting that the likely higher (initial) price compared to regular chicken will prevent Americans from purchasing it, especially now that inflation is so high.
Thanks, that makes sense. Just to double-check: replies are synced across servers, correct?