Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“These guys did something that I thought was very innovative and inventive,” said Paul Blumenthal, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University and one of the authors of the editorial accompanying the paper. He was not a part of this study. “I remember reflecting to myself when this paper came through … ‘Oh my goodness, after all this time, we don’t have good data on menstrual pads or menstrual products and their capacities?’”

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/07/period-products-menstrual-disc-new-study/

"The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first pill for postpartum depression, a milestone considered likely to increase recognition and treatment of a debilitating condition that afflicts about a half-million women in the United States every year."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/health/postpartum-depression-pill-fda.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

In April I wrote about how this new class of drugs were developed for #NatureMedicine. Read it at the link below:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-023-00032-8

#ScienceCommunication #DrugDevelopment #PostPartum #scicomm

"I for one welcome our (INSERT DEITY/ET/AI HERE) overlord(s)"

'Thinking about God increases acceptance of artificial intelligence in decision-making'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218961120

#Heatwaves, #Drought and #Floods have devastated rich agriculture lands.

"Known as #China’s granary, the three northeasternmost provinces – #Heilongjiang, #Jilin and #Liaoning – produce more than one fifth of the country’s #grain output, thanks to the region’s fertile black earth. Major crops produced there include #soybeans, #corn and #rice." #ClimateCrisis

China floods hit 'northeastern granary," fueling #FoodSecurity concerns | CNN
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/07/china/china-northeast-flooding-food-security-intl-hnk/index.html

Support is urgently requested to help keep Kew Herbarium at Kew.

The Director and Trustees intend to move the #Herbarium over an hour away from its current location at the heart of Kew.

Separating the herbarium from the gardens, library, and laboratories will cripple the ongoing taxonomic work at a time when we are facing a dire biodiversity crisis.

#Botany #Taxonomy #Systematics #Evolution #Ecology #Conservation #WildflowerHour #Mosstodon

https://chng.it/Tw9b5KphsQ

"The depiction of Africa as the place without history was the product rather than the cause of the enslavement and forced migration of over 12 million Africans, followed by the colonial conquest of the continent."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/africa-the-center-of-history-born-in-blackness-howard-w-french/

'Our study found that, among individuals recently infected with SARS-CoV-2, those who were fully vaccinated had lower concentrations of almost all cytokines and chemokines than those who were unvaccinated in the short-term and long-term after symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.'

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00171-4/fulltext#seccestitle140

This looks very interesting: The First WHO/Europe Indoor Air​ Conference

https://site.genevahealthforum.com/index.php/en/2023-events/first-who-europe-indoor-air-conference

'A day earlier, Edwards had met CIA director Richard Helms. Notes from that conversation detail the media baron’s observations on various members of the military, prompting Nixon to request a “gameplan” for a coup that would prevent Allende’s inauguration.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/richard-nixon-plot-allende-chile-presidency

'As usual, I will be rolling up my sleeve at the first opportunity, and I will be inviting fear-mongering anti-vaccine activists like RFK Jr. to go perform various anatomically improbable acts while I do so.'

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-stuff-again

Modelling Scientist
Syngenta Group

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/modelling-scientist/?feed_id=54364

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Bracknell #UnitedKingdomUK #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/modelling-scientist/?feed_id=54364

Finally, Mastodon is about to have a normal search function that actually works!

Well, almost. You'll have to opt into it by making your account "discoverable," which is off by default. That's not ideal imo because most people will want to be found and not know to turn this on.

Still, progress! You can also opt individual posts out by setting their privacy to "Unlisted."

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

Benchmarking scATAC-seq

"Hence, an unbiased comparison of the use of different scATAC-seq methods on reference samples, and the resulting ‘benchmark data’, will allow researchers to make an informed method selection when considering scATAC-seq. Our study aimed to reduce ‘information asymmetry’ by equipping researchers with a comprehensive benchmarking of scATAC-seq tools, to increase the quality of data while reducing costs through informed decision-making."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01897-3

Warning UK set for five years of lost economic growth caused by "Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine war " -- one of these things is not like the others.

One of these things is self inflicted.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66436792

Facebook/Meta abandons ESMfold (protein structure prediction), favouring money-making AI over blue skies research.

https://www.ft.com/content/919c05d2-b894-4812-aa1a-dd2ab6de794a