Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Alas, the results of most longevity studies are difficult to compare. This is in part because there are no clear, universally accepted standards for conducting such experiments or even for reporting such data.'

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.17.552381v1

Everyone at West Virginia University Knew Something Was Up. I Hate That We Were Right.

The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html

#WVU #HigherEd #AdministrativeMalpractice

August 19, 1970, the Glomar Challenger discovers first evidence that the Mediterranean Sea repeatedly dried out some 7 million years ago, leaving behind vast deposits of gypsum on the seafloor.

https://forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/09/26/disappearance-of-mediterranean-sea-seven-million-years-ago-triggered-widespread-volcanic-activity/#6ee843df6c24

#IDMastodon @WHO Report comes as 🇺🇸 is experiencing an ⏫️ in hospitalizations & mortality as anticipation mounts for updated vaccines, expected in 🍂
The EG.5 variant could contribute to a surge in cases, the report noted, although there’s no evidence to date that it causes more severe disease.

#books #bookban #libraries + Tip:

“…if you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries” ~ @neilhimself

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/

ONG denunciam influência de consultora dos EUA na Cimeira Africana do Clima: A forte presença da McKinsey na construção da agenda e definição de prioridades da cimeira de Nairobi preocupa 300 organizações não governamentais locais. Denunciam o papel atribuído ao mercado de carbono e a secundarização do fim dos combustíveis fósseis. https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/ong-denunciam-influencia-de-consultora-dos-eua-na-cimeira-africana-do-clima/87388?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

19 August 1942 | A transport of 997 Jews deported from Drancy arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 897 of them were immediately murdered in gas chambers.

One of them was Fanny Brauch from Paris.
She was 15 years old.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Hacker testifies that Bolsonaro asked him to tamper with voting machines https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/19/brazil-former-president-jair-bolsonaro-asked-hacker-to-break-into-voting-machines-testimony/6421692452352/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Another #mythbusted about #covid from Independent SAGE tackling rumours of the vaccine causing miscarriage- good news it is not true find out more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpspzUd3l1g

Not all heroes wear capes.

POST DOC FELLOW

Moffitt Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/post-doc-fellow/?feed_id=55769

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/post-doc-fellow/?feed_id=55769

It's a breathtaking fraud: #SoCal, America's largest gas company, spent millions secretly paying people to oppose California environmental regulations, then illegally stuck its customers with the bill. We Californians were forced to pay to lobby *against our own survival*:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article277266828.html

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/19/cooking-the-books-with-gas/#reichman-jorgensen

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#OTD 19 August 1839 The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".

There’s a HURRICANE this weekend heading for Baja and Southern California. Folks, that is not in any way normal.

I may not live long enough to see the worst of the impacts of climate change, but I want to use my voice and platform today to urge action.

We can start by ending subsidies and investments into fossil fuels. Full stop.

The Osbick Bird – Edward Gorey's tender and surprising vintage illustrated allegory about the meaning of true love https://t.co/iygB9hjcYQ