Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Amazing structural diversity of giant virus-like particles in forest soil | bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.546935v1

Many newcomers due to what's happening in The Bad Place, so here's another #introduction. Hi! I'm an astronomer and science communicator at the European Southern Observatory.

Below is a pic from my previous "office" at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile. I now work full time as Media Officer at ESO's HQ in #Germany.

I mostly post about #astronomy #space #photography and #astrophotography

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Welcome!

My goodness, #Mastodon has suddenly come alive with people again tonight! 🔥

Quite like it. Personally, the platform is quite robust and feature rich. Main thing missing has been people and content (related to my work interests), but broadly the more the merrier. Never a shortage of things to talk about, including #twitter & #twittermigration

A new view of Cycads in deep time

Recently, the results of a long-lasting project on the phylogeny and evolution of the cycads have been published on the journal New Phytologist. This project started with part of my Doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich, and continued and concluded while I was working at the University of Vienna thanks to funding from the Austrian Science Fund with co-pi…

http://mariocoiro.blog/2023/06/27/a-new-view-of-cycads-in-deep-time/

Oubliette Exhibition at Biblioteca Camoes, Lisbon (Largo do Calhariz, 17). Show runs until the end of June (AKA Tomorrow!).

"The Pignerol Gates. (Rome, circa 1760).
Oubliettes have only one entrance – frequently a trap door on the roof, as was by all contemporary accounts the case of the Pignerol cell. They were constructed so that men could be literally thrown away and forgotten. In Pignerol we know for certain that the gate opened once in 1631 and then again in 1670. The plates you see here were etched in 18th century Rome, by an unknown hand, working from the sketches produced by the guards (the documents were then in the Vatican’s possession, they were transferred to Napoleon by Pius VII and are now in the Archives Nationales)."
Prof. Horst Manfrenjensenden, Ph.D.
Head of Collections, von Willebrand Trust.

#Art #Print #Printmaking #Etching #Handmade #Cartography#ArtGallery #Oubliette #artstagram

@anaanajottajotta @consta_arouca @madparreira@jorgenesbitt

"Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/magazine/pregnant-women-medication-suboxonbabies.html

"The strangeness has a name – it’s called entanglement – but it is still poorly understood. Why does the quantum world behave this strange way? We think we’ve solved a central piece of this puzzle."

https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement

If you're looking for a weekend podcast, here's a very interesting episode of Knowable on the placebo effect.
#SciComm #PlaceboEffect #drugdevelopment

https://overcast.fm/+oWAyCyXD0?ref=thebrowser.com

"We report the genome assembly of a female Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) with twenty-eight chromosome-length scaffolds, generated using mammoth skin preserved in permafrost for roughly 52,000 years."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.547175v1

Looking like a genius move for @Co_Biologists to launch their Mastodon instance this week.

#JustSaying #TwitterRIP

#OTD 1 July 1879 Léon Jouhaux was born. He led the Confédération Générale du Travail, France's largest trade union, before WWI until 1947, fighting for the 8 hour workday & paid holidays. He survived deportation to Buchenwald concentration camp & won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951

Austin detects first West Nile virus of the year.

#Austin #Texas #Mosquitoes #WestNile

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2023-06-29/west-nile-virus-was-found-in-mosquitoes-in-austin-heres-what-to-know

Anyone surprised? This is what many, if not most, viruses do. More information regarding the biology and ecology of the SARS-2 virus in the public domain may have limited the many circulating conspiracy theories. Communication by the science community could have been better. The confusion of what ‘spillover’ technically is serves as a glaring example.

“Once the virus has its foot in the door, it’s easier to adapt further.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02151-1

'Frog taxidermy found inside French mansion that had been sealed for 100 years.'

On the assumption that there will be another influx of folks from - Welcome 🤗!

#Introduction I'm Dave, I'm a #scientist!

You'll get the hang of this place soon enough - the lack of algorithm means you need to work a little harder at getting your home feed up and running, bit stick at it, it's worth it.