Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"A monolithic group of scientists will bring many of the same preconceived notions to their work. But a group of many backgrounds will bring different points of view that decrease the chance that one prevailing set of views will bias the outcome. This means that scientific consensus can be reached faster and with greater reliability. It also means that the applications and implications will be more just for all. How is this a threat to scientific rigor and the merit of discoveries?"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/it-matters-who-does-science#.ZF4ty3LYhwN.twitter

Bouillabaisse

'I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a zoning-board meeting where folks are debating affordable housing. It shows you just how much work and effort and force goes into defending segregation. The folks who show up for those meetings are really not representative of the broader community. They tend to be whiter, more affluent, more likely to be homeowners. It’s this interesting thing wherein a democratic process has an undemocratic outcome, because representation in this case is a defense of the status quo.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/poverty-in-america-book-matthew-desmond-interview/674058/

'It might surprise you to hear that cycling is actually more popular than driving in Tokyo — it accounts for 17 percent of journeys, though the Japanese do not make as much of a big deal out of it as the Dutch do. But walking and public transport dwarf both sorts of vehicles.'

https://heatmap.news/economy/tokyo-anti-car-pedestrian-paradise?ref=thebrowser.com#

'Following the paper’s publication in Cretaceous Research, an online campaign with the hashtag #UbirajaraBelongsToBrazil called for the specimen’s return, citing palaeontological colonialism, in which scientists from wealthy nations take fossils from low- and middle-income nations. Because it is the only known specimen of its kind and is well preserved, researchers consider the Ubirajara fossil to be a holotype — a gold-standard specimen used to describe a new species'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01603-y

‘Labour warns’ in the headline is what makes it art:

"Some NHS staff need to “get over cultural sniffiness” about profit motives to work with pharmaceutical and tech companies to reverse the steep drop in UK clinical trials, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has said."

https://www.ft.com/content/801fa00e-335c-4b54-b507-4d4b497f73e0

'And as other tracking efforts wind down, some communities are racing to set up wastewater surveillance programs for the first time, Dr. Kirby noted. “This is actually driving more interest in wastewater,” she said.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/health/covid-sewage-wastewater-data.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'I said, “I’m not really sure I want to do a cop show.” And Levinson said: “This is about the homicide detectives. They’re thinking cops. There’s no gun battles, there’s no car chases.” And I said: “That’s impossible. I’ll do it.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/arts/television/homicide-life-on-the-street.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Television

Racial differences in edication for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

'In the 180 days after the index event, patients received buprenorphine after 12.7% of events among Black patients, after 18.7% of those among Hispanic patients, and after 23.3% of those among White patients; patients received naloxone after 14.4%, 20.7%, and 22.9%, respectively; and patients received benzodiazepines after 23.4%, 29.6%, and 37.1%, respectively.'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2212412?query=featured_home