Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes make a return to Angola

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/07/native-giraffes-return-to-angola-after-an-absence-of-decades-aoe

@jacobward Since I run a Mastodon instance myself, I maintain a moderately popular getting-started guide to all this. Here it is, if you like:

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110640605054053513

The beautiful opalescent nudibranch (Hermissenda opalescens), one of the most colorful species of sea slug, filmed off the coast of California by Aron Sanchez-Baranda.

Follow Aron on Instagram: https://instagram.com/waterbod/
More information on the opalescent nudibranch: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/opalescent-nudibranch

Folks, the reason #Facebook/#Instagram/#Meta/Zuckerberg hasn’t launched #Threads in the #EU isn’t because the EU is determined to protect your privacy, it’s because the EU is determined to protect The Single Market (peace be upon it) from anticompetitive behaviour. It’s because they’re using Instagram to launch Threads and sharing data between them (and not with any other EU startup that might want to use that data). It’s #antitrust, not #privacy. It’s markets, not people.

#DigitalServicesAct

"Data collected by Threads can include users' sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, biometric data, trade union membership, pregnancy status, politics, and religious beliefs. Threads can also collect data on users' employment, as well as health and fitness. Beyond that, the app also can collect data monitoring users' location and other web activity."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/threads-attracts-30m-users-in-24-hours-despite-design-flaws-privacy-concerns/ @arstechnica

Some great news from The Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer.

The "A Year of Deep Listening" project in homage to Pauline Oliveros they ran up until the end of May this year will eventually be collected in a book, to be published in Fall 2024 on Terra Nova Press.

Honoured and chuffed to have been part of this, and to see the whole project finally collected.

Watch this space. 🐚 📚

https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/ayodl/

https://www.instagram.com/centerfordeeplistening/

#PaulineOliveros #DeepListening #bookstodon #listening

“Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty”
By Patrick Radden Keefe
This isn’t your typical light-hearted summer reading fare. In this book, Keefe meticulously details how reckless ambition, careless indifference for the well-being of others, greed, and sheer narcissism not only within the Sackler family, but also within the pharmaceutical and health care industries, opened the door to one of the most devastating crises in this era. Honestly, the story made me angry. But the narrative details regarding the Sackler family history were incredibly captivating. As most states and cities, including Boston, are deeply engaged in determining the use of opioid remediation funding, I highly recommend this book as motivational summer reading.
— Bisola Ojikutu, executive director, Boston Public Health Commission'

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/05/summer-book-podcast-list-beach-reads-2023/

'In fact, in many areas, the experience of cancer care is actually getting worse, intensifying the physical, emotional, and financial suffering of patients and families. This is especially true for people who already face socio-economic disparities and barriers to care and who may, as a result, experience delays in screening, difficulty securing stable housing or even paying for medicine, and lack of access to nutritious food, among other challenges.'

https://fortune.com/2023/07/05/cancer-moonshot-miraculous-new-cures-patient-finance-treatment-health-green-diephuis/

Let's hope these "highly-placed sources" know what they're talking about:

'Should events go as expected, the deal will come as a huge relief to the scientific community. Many of the UK's leading researchers have been left in limbo over the future of their world-leading research projects and in some cases their own jobs and those of their teams.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66116938

'AI in recent months has become almost synonymous with large language models, or LLMs, but in science there are a multitude of different model architectures that may have even bigger impacts.'

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/05/1075865/eric-schmidt-ai-will-transform-science/

As a mum of twins on a low income whose partner is a librarian, I have spent years telling anyone who will listen of the huge social and health value that libraries bring to communities beyond being a building full of books.

It’s great to see that finally financially quantified…and a bit proud it’s #UEA in #Norwich carrying out this research!

#SaveOurLibraries
#LibrariesRule

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/07/study-finds-english-libraries-generate-at-least-34bn-in-yearly-value

Thrilled that our paper on rat ‘wind whiskers’ 🐀🌬️🧠 is now out
@PLOSBiology thx to an amazing & fun team effort @AnaRitaMendes13 @DhruvMehrotra5 @varunpsharma @fdavoine @BrechtLab Matias Mugnaini @miguelconcham Ben Gerhardt @NSB_MBL art by Ana Rita/DALLE plos.io/3riXfQV

Stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #Ceramics #Stoneware #Art #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

I am incredibly sad to say that Michael Ashburner passed away last night after a long illness. A giant of fly genetics and biology he was also very influential in the development of bioinformatics. I will be eternally grateful for the kindness and support he showed me. RIP

Following on from, ‘The importance of stupidity in scientific research’, Martin Schwartz, together with Alpha Yap, share their essay on the ‘The importance of character development in scientific research’.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/13/jcs261405/322682/The-importance-of-character-development-in

You can also read Martin’s essay on, The importance of indifference in scientific research’: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/128/15/2745/55123/The-importance-of-indifference-in-scientific

#cellbiology #research