Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'The shift in speech is just the tip of a set of changes on the service under Mr. Musk. Accounts that Twitter used to regularly remove — such as those that identify as part of the Islamic State, which were banned after the U.S. government classified ISIS as a terror group — have come roaring back. Accounts associated with QAnon, a vast far-right conspiracy theory, have paid for and received verified status on Twitter, giving them a sheen of legitimacy.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html

'We report on the protocolized use of tecovirimat (SIGA Technologies), an antiviral drug with activity against orthopoxviruses (including monkeypox and smallpox),1 under an expanded access program for all patients with monkeypox virus (MPXV) disease in Mbaïki, Central African Republic, between December 2021 and February 2022.2 Included in the study were 14 patients in whom MPXV infection had been diagnosed.'

#monkeypox #tecovirimat #nejm

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2210015?query=featured_home

@JeanneGarb @marcdionne It was a revelation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joD5qPHUJs

'However, you may not know some of the most basics facts about the object. For instance, what was its purpose, and what did it actually say? In this video, Ilona Regulski, curator of Egyptian written culture at the British Museum in London, walks viewers through the stone and its ‘decree’, issued during the Ptolemaic dynasty in 196 BCE.'

https://aeon.co/videos/what-did-the-rosetta-stones-inscription-actually-communicate

@JeanneGarb I know the feeling, but the last time I visited @marcdionne in London he introduced me to the French 57 and now I feel hopeful again. Or at least ebullient.

'Our findings show that efforts to develop parvoviruses as therapeutic tools can be approached from a rational foundation based on comparative evolutionary analysis. To support this, we published our data in the form of an open, extensible, and cross-platform database designed to facilitate the wider utilisation of evolution-related domain knowledge in parvovirus research.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001867

@EdanFoley@drosophila.social If you have a reason to be in Basel, it seems the Bayeler is going to have a monumental greatest hits anniversary show.