Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Just a printed image of thousands of flies, ants, spiders and butterflies fighting in a battle with tiny weapons. You see part of an allegory of the struggles of a Protestant spider and a Catholic fly in sixteenth-century England.

The author, John Heywood, published the book in 1556: 456 pages, 98 chapters.

The story: A fly named Buz gets caught in a spider web, and starts arguing with a spider about Catholics and Protestants. In the end this leads to a battle.

#bookhistory #histodons

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a green zone, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

#evolution #invertebrates #comb jelly #RoadNotTaken

with NO apologies to Robert Frost

I mentioned to my PhD chat group buddies that it’d be lovely to see them on Mastodon, and some have agreed to give it a go.

So I’m asking for help. In advance of them arriving, I’d love to be able to point them at this post and replies to find their connections. Are you doing a #phd too? What’s it about? Have you just finished one and have some advice?

Could you help me find as many PhD researchers as possible?

For anyone whose recently joined us here on Mathstodon, you should be aware of @MathsJam, the monthly pub nights (and also annual gatherings) for recreational mathematics, and also @TMiP (Talking Maths in Public), the network for people who communicate maths to the public or otherwise. Also, hi!

@NicoleCRust @lisabortolotti

👋 Hello! Looks like quite a few more people are coming here as part of a #TwitterMigration. Welcome to the #fediverse!

GBH News is a PBS/NPR station in #Boston, MA. We start the day with a news roundup and a lighthearted poll. #introduction

Are you a #journalist? I wrote Mastodon 101 for Journalists which you can find here: https://lisawilliams.github.io/lisa/tech/2022/11/28/mastodon-101-for-journalists.html

(for those of you who have been here a minute...I'm looking to update that. Suggestions welcome!)

Targeted Genetic Nanoparticle Company Gains $25M in Seed Funds

A developer of #nanoscale #lipid particles for delivering #genomic therapies to specific #cells and #tissue, spun-off from academic labs, is raising $25 million in seed #funds.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44867

#News #Science #Business #Biotechnology #Nanotechnology #Chemistry #DNA #mRNA #Engineering #University #GeneTherapy #Finance #SeedRound #VentureCapital

I respect the NYT, but this the laziest, stupidest reporting imaginable.

The majority of the story is just regurgitating Musk’s PR statements unchallenged, without context.

And it doesn’t go into issues like the Google cloud infrastructure bill. Or the self DDOS.

A decade ago, I could excuse thin tech reporting from major papers.

But most other newsrooms have staffed up experts enough to write better stories. WSJ certainly has.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/business/twitter-rate-limit-elon-musk.html

@analog_ashley there’s @mekkaokereke and @KimCrayton1 and @BlackAzizAnansi all worth listening to.

@analog_ashley and I assume you’re already following @cyrilpedia and @NicoleCRust and @albertcardona for immuno/ neuro / art / bugs / cognition.

@schoppik @analog_ashley @cyrilpedia @albertcardona

Welcome @analog_ashley - so happy you’re here.

(And thanks @schoppik).

"The Outer Hebrides Palimpsest. (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1677).

Following the establishment of the Man in the Iron Mask’s identity by use of the correspondence and shopping lists of his jailor, Saint Mars, the Margrave embarked on a reanalysis of one his cartographic collection’s most celebrated collection items, the Outer Hebrides Palimpsest. The connection was tenuous at best: a group of Waldensians fleeing the brutal suppression of the sect in Piedmont arrived at the remote islands at around the time the map was produced. In keeping with our founder’s original mission, the process arrived at no useful conclusions – one unfortunate effect is the damage you see here, the Margrave's effort at redacting the map."
Prof. Horst Manfrenjensenden, Ph.D.
Head of Collections, von Willebrand Trust. Dresden, December 12th, 2022.

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

@anaanajottajotta @consta_arouca@madparreira @jorgenesbitt

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

"That's a long-winded way of explaining how I got from working on stress to being interested in the microbiome. The next 10 years were focused on taking advantage of advances in technologies, genetics and sequencing to parse the relationship between the microbiome and the brain and, more recently, on asking if we can translate it to humans."
- John Cryan

https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/febs.16702

'To identify tumor-intrinsic drivers of resistance, we quantified in-vitro response to CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CD19-CAR) and bispecific antibodies (BsAb) across 46 B-NHL cell lines and measured their proteomic profiles at baseline. Among the proteins associated with poor in-vitro response was Serpin B9, an endogenous granzyme B inhibitor.'

#CART #immunotherapy #Immunology #immunooncology #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.26.546507v1?med=mas