Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Two foxes by @hunchbacksociety #WorkInProgress

#thehunchbacksociety #fruitbowl #ceramics #handmadeceramics #artmastodon #handmade

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

'In “The Long Reckoning,” Black, a British journalist living in New York and the author of several books on foreign policy, unites his areas of expertise in international affairs and the environment to explore a landscape littered with the detritus of war: scrap metal, unexploded ordnance, soil and water contaminated by herbicides Americans sprayed, spilled and dumped over swaths of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/01/books/review/the-long-reckoning-george-black.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Books

'Fungal epidemics in humans are infrequent, in part because human-to-human transmission of fungi is rare, and I am not aware of any involving zombielike creatures. It’s far more likely that the next pandemic will come from a virus. But the idea that climate change is making the emergence of new health threats more likely is solid. Could it cause a fungus ubiquitous in the environment to morph into a lethal pathogen in humans? It’s possible.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/the-last-of-us-fungus-climate-change.html

... and that's a damn shame.

'The only contemporary setting in which small research groups really seem to have a fighting chance at the cutting edge is when they’re (i) extremely well-funded with (ii) access to state-of-the-art core facilities in (iii) an intellectually lively environment and (iv) little to no teaching hours attached. That kind of setting is vanishingly rare.'
@TIR_scienceblog

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2022/12/18/short-sight-oversight-the-ballad-of-marc-tessier-lavigne/

“A la gente le encanta que le simplifiques asuntos tremendamente complejos a partir de una sustancia química. Que digas que la oxitocina es la hormona del amor, por ejemplo. Eso tiene algo de verdad, porque es una hormona prosocial, pero también habría que decir que esa hormona nos puede llevar a recelar de los desconocidos y confiar demasiado en los nuestros, a creer que tienen la verdad, aunque no sea cierto”.

https://elpais.com/salud-y-bienestar/2023-04-02/libros-de-autoayuda-el-uso-tramposo-de-la-ciencia-para-defender-el-sentido-comun.html

EMBO is looking for a policy officer "to develop and implement activities on research integrity and good scientific practice, research assessment, #openscience, career structures, and the composition of the research workforce."
Deadline: 12 April 2023
#ScienceJobs

https://t.co/jQBLDe54NF

An organoid model for thyroid cancer (#Preprint).

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.30.534915v1

'Here’s the bottom line from it: “Mild Cognitively Impaired participants treated with anti-Aβ drugs were projected to have a material regression toward brain volumes typical of Alzheimer’s dementia ∼8 months earlier than if they were untreated.” I would say that if someone wants to make the argument that this is of no consequence (or perhaps even beneficial?) that they should step right up and have a crack at it. I (and many others) will watch with great interest. On the other hand, if the way of dealing with these findings is to pretend that they don’t exist, that is really unacceptable.'

#alzheimers #alzheimersdisease #drugdevelopment

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/are-anti-amyloid-antibodes-going-make-alzheimer-s-patients-worse

"Para Moedas, os lisboetas sabem muito bem que ele anda a resolver os seus problemas e não precisam que ele compareça ao seu protesto. Já os empresários do alojamento local, porventura mais inseguros, precisam da sua presença para se sentirem amparados."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/04/03/politica/opiniao/manifestacao-habitacao-ausencia-moedas-2044743