Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Mink farming needed to end yesterday.

There are no reasons beyond economics and tradition to continue to allow them or other fur "farms.".

There are many reasons – ethics and disease primary among them – to ban them.

Quote: "We strongly urge governments to also consider the mounting evidence suggesting that fur farming, particularly mink, be eliminated in the interest of pandemic preparedness"

🔗 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303408120

176 #wildfires in #NWT and now #Yukon is burning. 2023 is ravaging the #borealforests https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-wildfire-escalated-dramatically-resources-thin-1.6923840

#ClimateBreakdown #Drought #Canada

"The olfactory receptor genes we identified were so specific. One was associated with cheese and nothing else. There’s one very specific to fruit. There’s one very specific to vegetables. There’s one very specific to coffee." Fun new research on food preferences & why some people like tea https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-genes-may-influence-what-you-like-to-eat/

Box with rabbit, glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

https://hunchbacksociety.cargo.site/Small-talk

#Ceramics #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #artstagram

Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces that would enable communication for people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions that render them unable to verbally communicate.

Our recent report, republished in El País: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-07-27/reading-the-mind-with-machines-to-help-patients-unable-to-speak.html

Intelligence Board Recommends Curbing F.B.I.’s Power to Use Surveillance Program
A presidential advisory panel suggests barring the F.B.I. from using Section 702 to hunt for evidence of crimes without a connection to foreign intelligence
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/fbi-warantless-surveillance-section-702.html

See also (NSO Group, FBI):

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110809578692218555
Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/nso-spy-tool-landmark-fbi.html

#Section702 #FBI #privacy #surveillance #NSOGroup

No matter how matter how many times I walk past or how commonplace I know it to be, this joint always feel like a the set of a theatrical production. #Vietnam #StreetPhotography

'July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were upended by the test of the world’s first nuclear bomb. The events of July 16, 1945, weigh heavily on us. And why wouldn’t they? They changed everything. The people of New Mexico were the first human test subjects of the world’s most powerful weapon.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/international-world/oppenheimer-nuclear-bomb-cancer.html

"Protein copy numbers constrain systems-level properties of regulatory networks, but absolute proteomic data remain scarce compared to transcriptomics obtained by RNA sequencing. We addressed this persistent gap by relating mRNA to protein statistically using best-available data from quantitative proteomics-transcriptomics for 4366 genes in 369 cell lines."
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.10.548432v1

Another huge #HPV vaccination study from Scandinavia, this time with > 2 million subjects in Norway. The HPV #vaccine was most effective against anogenital warts when given during teen years. #IDMastodon & #ObGynodon

Our new Perspective is out in Nature Microbiology today. It covers some common/emerging myths and misconceptions in the human #microbiome field, and explains why they are likely incorrect: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01426-7

A hopefully helpful primer against uncritical repetition.

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