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One of the great things about BYC is one can with a bit of work put forward a proposition on behaviour and given that proposition is clear and enough people read it, one gets feedback.
When I write an article part of my interest isn't so much trying to educate anyone, it's a test of how strong a theory may be. If for example, as with the egg song article people comment that they have seen similar behaviour in their chickens and their keeping arrangements are not too dissimilar then given enough positive resposnes I can be more certain that my theory is sound for those similar conditions.
An academic writing a paper doesn't get that kind of feedback. They experiment, write and publish. Their peers are not even particularly interested in whether the paper represnts fact as long as the auther has carried out the experiment in an acceptable fashion and presented it correctly. It is peer reviewing and later the passage of time that decides whether the study represents a reality or fact.
When I write an article part of my interest isn't so much trying to educate anyone, it's a test of how strong a theory may be. If for example, as with the egg song article people comment that they have seen similar behaviour in their chickens and their keeping arrangements are not too dissimilar then given enough positive resposnes I can be more certain that my theory is sound for those similar conditions.
An academic writing a paper doesn't get that kind of feedback. They experiment, write and publish. Their peers are not even particularly interested in whether the paper represnts fact as long as the auther has carried out the experiment in an acceptable fashion and presented it correctly. It is peer reviewing and later the passage of time that decides whether the study represents a reality or fact.
) and there was stuff in it, not much but stuff. She looks and acts fine and I can't help wondering where she finds the energy to cope with the chicks even though there are only two of them. For those of you who have kept puppies, the chicks activity behaviour is markedely similar. Flat out activity for a while and then they fall asleep for a while and the cycle starts all over again.
Truth is I am impressed. When he gets going he does shift an incredibel amount of foliage and soil. It's rather like standing behind a wood chipper when he gets going. The chicks hide under Fret. There is far too much stuff flying everywhere for them to feel safe.
), then back to the editor with the referees' comments, for a final decision after however many revisions have been made, and then it goes through a copy editor who picks up any remaining flaws, faux pas and stylistic infelicities. The best journals have very skilled people doing each and every job on this journey that a paper published in it has to take. Journals are ranked by how hard (or not) it is to get published in them, since there is this quality control (unlike the internet, where any old rubbish can get published - without the platforms actually admitting it is publishing such nonsense to the world).
) because all ten older keets had feathers, and he was just this ball of fuzz.
