Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'The Irish government is taking legal advice over the possibility of mounting a court challenge to controversial UK legislation expected to be passed at Westminster in the coming days that would offer an amnesty for atrocities committed during Northern Ireland’s three decades-long Troubles conflict.'

https://www.ft.com/content/32acbfb9-75a8-4969-8315-a3e57e10221b

'The UK National Health Service was an early funder of Cochrane and its UK-based groups. Later, the NIHR provided support, mainly paying for support staff to help produce reviews.

So when the NIHR confirmed in August 2021 that it would stop funding all the UK-based review groups, the news came as a shock'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02741-z

'Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels'

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/04/england-crumbling-schools-rishi-sunak-repairs-civil-servant

'Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/

"Research thrives on freedom, diversity and collaboration. We oppose nationalistic forces that endanger free science, an open society and international cooperation."
– Patrick Cramer, MPG president
[my translation]

@cyrilpedia
not w/o mentioning this detail

Not that surprising, but there's also #fosfomycin #resistance spreading around the world. Here in #Salmonella

#AMR #microbiology #medicine #infectiousdiseases #MedMastodon
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00261-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

'Once Allende won—in spite of an American-funded campaign of misinformation that depicted him, a man of impeccable democratic credentials, as a Communist stooge—the next step was to try to stop his inauguration. A CIA-financed terrorist group killed General René Schneider, the commander in chief of the army, who was committed to the rule of law. When Allende was nonetheless sworn in on November 3, covert operations were launched to “make the economy scream,” per Nixon’s instructions.'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/defending-allende-ariel-dorfman/

'Countering the theory that glioblastoma–synaptic integration may result in physiologically disorganized neural responses, we found task-relevant neural activity within the entire region of the tumour-infiltrated cortex, including cortical regions that are not typically implicated in speech production (Fig. 1b)—a notable finding that indicates tumour-induced functional remodelling of language circuitry. '

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06036-1

'In the study, three participants received autologous OTQ923 after myeloablative conditioning and were followed for 6 to 18 months. At the end of the follow-up period, all the participants had engraftment and stable induction of fetal hemoglobin'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2215643?query=featured_home

'In Brazil, where we come from, English education is superficial, especially in public schools (...) Expensive private courses are beyond the possibilities of most of the population, but they are the only way to achieve proficiency without leaving the country.'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/

'Historians have, in fact, long known about Einstein’s debt to Hume, and indeed about that letter. They’ve known, too, about the influence on Einstein of many other philosophers, from Ernst Mach to Arthur Schopenhauer.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/24/einstein-got-it-philosophy-and-science-do-go-hand-in-hand

"I tried to relieve my guilt by reminding myself to be grateful for modern medicine – at least he wasn’t removed with a crochet hook – but forceps aren’t modern. Nor do they feel modern. They feel like what they are: a product of 18th-century male practitioners’ devotion to metallic reason and elegance in all things. I had spent years in the archives trying to gain some intimacy with the past, and suddenly there I was, being penetrated by the Enlightenment."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n17/erin-maglaque/diary

Postdoctoral fellow in the experimental and/or computational study

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-experimental-and-or-computational-study/?feed_id=57673

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA #UnitedS...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-the-experimental-and-or-computational-study/?feed_id=57673

Take a moment to unwind and enjoy some stunning nature.
Bird photographer of the year 2023 winners – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/sep/d05/bird-photographer-of-the-year-2023-winners-in-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other