Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Italy’s hard-right government is starting to look more radical as Georgia Meloni indulges in cultural and economic populism.

Admirers of Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party like to describe them as “Latin conservatives”—no more radical than, say, Britain’s Tories.

But the comparison ignores significant differences which have burst to the surface in recent weeks, prompting open splits in the governing coalition.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/24/italys-hard-right-government-is-starting-to-look-more-radical

#Italy #Meloni #HardRight #FarRight #Populism

'Lembrei-me desta teoria de Thomas Merton a propósito do pacote Mais Habitação e das reações que provocou nos partidos à direita. Quem avaliar a proposta através das reações destes partidos e de outras organizações justamente conotadas com princípios de direita chega à conclusão que se trata de um diploma de esquerda radical, marxista ou comunista.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/23/opiniao/opiniao/pacote-habitacao-nao-nada-socialista-2060948

'The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), defined as the time it takes for malaria parasites in a mosquito to become infectious to a vertebrate host, is one of the most influential parameters for malaria transmission but remains poorly understood.'

#Preprint #Malaria #Plasmodium

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.22.554268v1

In a surprising twist, another MiniMussolini turns out to be a crook.

'Mr Bolsonaro, 68, has become ensnared in a series of investigations into fraud and election tampering that have already landed some of his closest allies in jail and that, over the past several weeks, appear to be closing in on him.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-arrest-watches.html

Tucker Carlson asked Trump 10 questions that weren't follow ups to things Trump said. Three of those 10 were focused on stoking the idea of political violence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/24/tucker-did-his-best-drag-trump-into-his-political-violence-fantasies/

Following from Collinson's paper, here is my take on scaling up volume electron microscopy for connectomics in the #UK or any country willing to commit about 10 to 20 million a year:

"Growing and nurturing a research base in connectomics"
https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20230823_connectomics_research_base.html

From the humble #Drosophila to the #mouse brain, passing through the mosquito, honeybee, gecko lizards and the Etruscan shrew.

It's possible, it's feasible, it's timely: therefore we must.

#neuroscience #connectomics #VolumeEM #vEM

At the end of July, the volume EM community met for their first GRC meeting. Following on from the fantastic coverage at #vEMtura23, Ana Correia and James Thompson share their meeting report on FocalPlane.
Check it out here: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/08/24/unveiling-the-marvels-of-the-first-ever-gordon-research-conference-on-volume-electron-microscopy-capturing-subcellular-architecture-from-organelles-to-organisms-by-ana-correia-and-james-thompson/

#microscopy #biology #vEM

This #ThrowbackThursday, we look back at the popular 'Forgotten classics' post about Gustafson and Wolpert's 1967 paper "Cellular movement and contact in sea urchin morphogenesis."

#DevBio #morphogenesis

https://thenode.biologists.com/forgotten-classics-principles-morphogenesis/

Meet the lab of Jenny Nichols, based in the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the Institute for Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh!

The lab studies early mammalian development, in particular preimplantation cell lineage acquisition and gastrulation in mouse and human.

https://thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-with-the-nichols-lab/

Sometimes finding elusive particles is harder than you might think....

[@tomgauld at The New Scientist]

#science
#CERN
#physics

A survey from Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. It's great to see you here instead! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

It’s broken record time again: We desperately need to do better at teaching ethics to people in STEM.

I’ve just reported an LLM project to the platforms it uses, as an imminent threat to life. It “enables a user to have an interactive dialogue about medical conditions, symptoms…” with ChatGPT.

It does NOT MATTER how many disclaimers you put in front of that. It is an imminent threat to life, and you will not implement it.

@cyrilpedia not much of an investor either https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0018

In their Review, Yipeng Du, Matthew Sieber and colleagues discuss the role of metabolic pathways in driving cellular quiescence and the impact in #development and #disease.

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/16/jcs260787/325880/The-role-of-metabolism-in-cellular-quiescence

#CellBiology

Queuosine-tRNA promotes sex-dependent learning and memory formation by maintaining codon-biased translation elongation speed
Francesca Tuorto and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022112507

A Tale about the Frontal Lobes as Told by a Neurologist
https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02020
#neuroscience

Beautiful Old Stone Shed in corn field landscape in Azores Islands.

Print ➻ https://marco-sales.pixels.com/featured/stone-shed-in-corn-field-plantation-in-azores-islands-marco-sales.html 🕊️ @marco5ales

#landscape #nature #coastal #azores #naturelover #shed #island #agriculture #architecture #photography #photographer #foto #prints #gifts #artprints #photoart #art #loveart #artist #artmatters #artcollector #homedecor #mastoart #mastodonart #artbooster #buyintoart #aYearForArt

Just a quick reminder that absolutely NONE of your problems in life are because trans people exist.

Get a life, grow up and mind your own effing business. 🏳️‍⚧️

#stoptransphobia #Transgender #translivesmatter

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot died #OTD in 1832.

He published only one book, the Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, in which he expressed the first successful theory of the maximum efficiency of heat engines and laid the foundations of the new discipline: thermodynamics. His work attracted little attention during his lifetime, but it was later used by Rudolf Clausius and Lord Kelvin to formalize the second law of thermodynamics and define the concept of entropy. via @wikipedia

#science

New breath test shows promise for rapid #COVID19 detection https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-breath-test-shows-promise-rapid-covid-19-detection

The test could be more accurate than at-home tests and faster than polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or swab-based tests, which can take at least 15 minutes to produce results. The test was also able to detect different variants of #COVID, which could be helpful in predicting and identifying surges within a community.