Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

The CDC is a national security asset that needs adequate funding to do its job, new director Mandy Cohen said when asked about a GOP proposal to zero out funding for the new Center for Forecasting and Analytics. https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/26/cdc-director-mandy-cohen-interview/

COVID Can Do Bad Things to Your Brain https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/07/26/covid-and-cognitive-dysfunction/

Scientists say catastrophic ocean warming is tied directly to burning fossil fuels, yet it is not mentioned in this story and often is not in on-air reporting. It's like covering a shooting without mentioning who did it. We can do better @CNN cnn.com/2023/07/25/us/… @EricZerkel

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/us/florida-ocean-heat-coral-bleaching-climate/index.html #climate #climatechange

Protocols.io is bought by Springer Nature.

It will be interesting to see how this viewed by the community. Will there be outrage as when Elsevier bought Mendeley? Or does Nature get a pass - certainly less ire around BMC, Digital Science, etc. and T&F’s acquisition of F1000 was less remarked on.

https://www.protocols.io/workspaces/protocolsio-news/news/the-next-chapter-for-protocolsio

'There is almost zero risk of sexual transmission of HIV with viral loads of less than 1000 copies per mL. These data provide a powerful opportunity to destigmatise HIV and promote adherence to ART through dissemination of this positive public health message.'

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00877-2/fulltext

“We didn’t expect this heating to happen so early in the year and to be so extreme,” Derek Manzello, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch, told CNN last week. “This appears to be unprecedented in our records.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather

'Would humanity settle on a new planet where going outdoors during daylight was potentially lethal, leading to time spent scurrying between buildings and vehicles in search of shelter from the environment? Surely not. Yet somehow Phoenix, Arizona, where maximum temperatures have now exceeded 40C for 26 successive days, is America’s fastest growing big city.'

https://www.ft.com/content/de449d0d-0558-48da-90b9-5bb4fe809dab

An opioid expert from Texas A&M gave a guest lecture and mentioned that Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick’s policies were costing lives. Within hours, Patrick’s office got her suspended, formally censored, and nearly fired.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

If you'd have told me 2 or 3 years ago that a real-time wastewater surveillance algorithm would become the primary way to detect Covid on the rise, I wouldn't have believed it. But it is now:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216021120

If you're sharing scientific research, have you ever thought about why you're sharing it, or who you hope will see it?

I attended a grad-level #science communication class this past spring, and I've turned the basics into a short #SciComm planning guide for scientists.

It's meant to help you design the way you share your research by prompting you to consider your message, goals, and audience.

You can read the guide here: https://medium.com/@gregorymanni/the-scientists-quick-start-guide-to-science-communication-7efe61bb4d90

Tumor collagens predict genetic features and patient outcomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41525-023-00358-9

One of the things Thomas Lemberger and I discussed with Pavel Tomancak on this episode of the #EMBOPodcast was how we should reward peer review. Pavel's answer was very direct: pay the reviewers.

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

This weekend we had our first #HI-TRON Strategy Workshop. It was a very successful event with plenty of ideas for #PersonalizedMedicine with #immunology & #mRNAs and we developed awesome new future projects! Great people – great ideas! Take a look https://hi-tron.dkfz.de/ #oncology #translationalmedicine #machinelearning @dkfz @datasciencedkfz @helmholtz @hereon @association @cyrilpedia @science_wallet