Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Many art experts say Lichtenstein’s use of source comics was fair appropriation. Yet Eisman, 96, who lives in New Jersey, tells The Washington Post by email: “I’d say it’s theft.” He hopes people will watch the documentary and see it as evenhanded, intended to represent both sides with the aim to let “the viewers make up their own minds and not just leave it to the so-called experts.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/05/roy-lichtenstein-documentary/

'Home Office rejection letters issued to the three children and seen by the Financial Times, state that even though the children were part of a fully-sponsored tour, the visa officers did not believe them. Applicants are not allowed to appeal against the decision.'

https://www.ft.com/content/65905653-5c2f-4247-81e3-73140dceae8a

'In this Primer, we outline the current understanding of #chikungunya fever based on research in patients and animal models, which have provided considerable insights into the complex spectrum of disease manifestations and the mediators of arthritic immunopathology.'

#Immunology #virology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-023-00429-2

This strategy worked pretty well in Brazil, where they were referred to as 'sandwich PhDs'. The difficulty was providing good conditions for people to thrive locally after their PhDs. But it should also be noted that, in the case of the researchers who ultimately stayed or returned to institutions abroad, it also provided a great mentoring network for the next generation of students, as well as a valuable resource for the local scientific community through consortia, collaborations, reagent sharing, etc.

“Most PhDs focus on the individual, but in this programme, the focus was on building institutional capacity at Makerere,” Waiswa says. “The research you do was also meant to be aligned to national development priorities.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00956-8

SymbNET Metabolomics Workshop for Biologists on metabolomics & the study of host-microbiome interactions.

DATE
06 – 08 Jun 2023
LOCATION
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

https://symbnet.eu/agenda/symbnet-metabolomics-workshop-for-biologists/

@teixi Yes, that's one way of looking at it. Vaccines are a preventive measure, monoclonals are most likely to work early, and we have a very poor toolkit for serious disease. It may seem odd, but the reason is that for the monoclonal directly targets the virus, which is what you want in the acute phase; but the serious illness is much more complex - and not necessarily directly dependent on viral replication anymore. Excessive inflammation, occasional autoimmune issues and a variety of stress & damage responses are massive problems at that stage. It's why the first drugs to show any real clinical improvement were steroids and other immune modulators.

'En unos meses abrirá en Cala Montjoi (Girona) su proyecto más ansiado, por el que lleva esperando, por problemas con las obras, protestas medioambientales y pandemia, ocho años. En junio inaugurará elBulli 1846, un museo que pretende guardar la esencia y la memoria de todo lo vivido durante años en elBulli, cerrado desde 2011, pero que su artífice pretende que no caiga en el olvido, sobre todo para quienes no vivieron aquella locura gastronómica.'

https://elpais.com/gastronomia/2023-04-06/ferran-adria-si-hubiera-seguido-abierto-elbulli-podria-haber-tocado-fondo.html