Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"As with many of Britain’s social ills, the architecture of today’s care system is a product of Thatcherism, essentially unaltered by the Blair administration: an archipelago of small firms, each owning a single care home, alongside huge chains backed by venture capital. Long-term NHS geriatric beds are gone, and local authority homes have almost vanished."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n05/james-butler/this-concerns-everyone

@dmaseda My mother makes Sarah Connor look like a deadbeat dad.

An antibacterial peptide encoded in the mitochondrial genome (#preprint).
#immunology #InnateImmunity

"We demonstrate that MOTS-c (mitochondrial open reading frame from the twelve S rRNA type-c) is a mitochondrial-encoded amphipathic and cationic peptide with direct antibacterial and immunomodulatory functions, consistent with the peptide chemistry and functions of known HDPs."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.02.530691v1

"Here, we report that a high sugar diet reduces Drosophila female fertility by increasing death of early germline cysts (prior to follicle formation) and degeneration of vitellogenic follicles; that obesity in and of itself does not impair fertility; and that high glucose levels closely correlate with reduced fertility on a high sugar diet."

#preprint #Drosophila #Metabolism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.02.530894v1

"In November 2021, Compass published its initial results from the study on people with treatment-resistant depression. A single dose of psilocybin, combined with therapy, was shown to have a significant effect in the short term, improving depression scores for 37 per cent of patients three weeks after the trial, with 29 per cent in remission."

https://www.ft.com/content/e8dbeaea-9b65-41ae-a86a-07e9c4058456

Bordalo II, Lisbon

The plot, as they say, thickens:

'Rishi Sunak is refusing to rush Britain back into the EU’s €95.5bn Horizon science programme despite his recent breakthrough in relations with Brussels, raising the prospect of a tough negotiation on rejoining the scheme.'

https://www.ft.com/content/409bccc7-8cb4-4f44-87c4-340d15147c55?sharetype=blocked

@sejkko Not yet!

“I simply wanted to recover the heritage – the ancient traditions and vines – left to us by our ancestors,” said Torres, the president of Familia Torres winery. “And then we realised that some of these varieties take longer to ripen, meaning they might be able to help us in a warming world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/28/canary-coalmine-spanish-winemakers-climate-threat-grape-varieties

'We have reached the point where scientists are warning not only that we are facing a mass extinction event, but that one is already under way. Can history — and not only human history — help us frame a response to the climate concerns of the modern age?'

https://www.ft.com/content/33e66ae3-dac2-4cc0-b859-79edc7dd07dd