Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"This Essay looks at the structure and culture of successful research institutes, laying out different operational strategies and highlighting points that need be taken into consideration during their implementation."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002267

📚 Attention word nerds! We asked a fellow bibliophile to review the new book 'The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary'.
https://theconversation.com/philologists-pedants-and-obsessives-how-crowd-sourcing-created-the-oxford-english-dictionary-211745?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1694416248

NHS revolt looms over ‘physician associates’ - medical consent forms should now include the line "I am happy to be treated by unqualified unregulated and often unsupervised staff because there aren't enough proper doctors because the government won't fund their training."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/doctor-revolt-looms-over-nhs-physician-associates-s0s8tdf87?shareToken=9e46f5409f41a115c8f96c650e05c3a3

'Many patient-advocacy groups are lushly funded: last year, the Alzheimer’s Association’s revenue was about half a billion dollars. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that at least eighty-three per cent of the largest groups receive money from pharmaceutical companies. “H.I.V. activism was a true grassroots movement, not one funded by drug companies,” Daniel Carpenter, the author of “Reputation and Power,” a colossal history of the F.D.A., told me. “I don’t want to say everything since then has been astroturfed. But companies do learn the lesson of ‘Oh, that’s how you get a drug through the F.D.A.’'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval

'It makes sense that Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump are effectively in alliance, and that Trump as president contemplated appointing Kennedy to head a putative “vaccine safety and scientific integrity commission.”

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/09/07/paradise-lost-rfk-jr/

'The universal and enthusiastic welcome to Thursday’s news that Britain was to rejoin the £81bn EU Horizon programme for scientific collaboration, albeit as an associate member, was a surprise – not least to the prime minister, who had dragged his feet for months in fear of the reaction of his Europhobic right.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcome

@proteomicsnews blog post | HowDirty? An easy R package (feature based extraction) for contaminants! | https://proteomicsnews.blogspot.com/2023/09/howdirty-easy-r-package-feature-based.html #proteomics

Manifest destiny.

"Many children faced beatings, malnutrition, hard labor and other forms of neglect and abuse. Some never returned to their families. Hundreds are known to have died, a toll expected to grow as research continues."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/30/us/native-american-boarding-schools.html

'Treatment of chronically infected mice with either αPD-1 or αPD-L1 antibody not only increased effector cell differentiation from the virus-specific stem-like CD8 T cells but also increased their proliferation so their numbers were maintained'

#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adg0539

"(...) Xerox PARC, the storied Palo Alto research lab credited with pioneering many aspects of contemporary computing. Its most famous creation is the Alto, a personal computer system introduced in 1973 that featured a mouse and a graphical user interface with icons, windows, and folders. Xerox famously never managed to monetize it, but the Alto’s influence was immense; within a decade Apple was selling machines that looked a lot like it."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/better-faster-stronger-the-philosopher-of-palo-alto/

Vin Mariani, the 19th-Century Cocaine-Infused Wine, Imbibed and Endorsed by Presidents, Popes https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/vin-mariani-the-19th-century-cocaine-infused-wine-imbibed-and-endorsed-by-presidents-popes-writers.html

2/2

... and many others who sided with Hitler.

He used their connections & influence to spread the lies that let Austria be subsumed while the UK & USA did nothing, just like Putin, Musk, & Koch does in Ukraine today.

"The Ambassador" shows how rich antisemites in critical government roles furthered a fascist movement. Kennedy Sr. in the court of St. James was the exact right person in the job for fascist foreign rulers bent on world war. So like Mike Flynn in a tenure in the Trump admin.

@juglugs

Nazis co-opted elites early in their rise. Just like today.

Susan Ronald's books show how early the aristocracy & moneyed racists joined Hitler's fascist movement.

"A Dangerous Woman" is about Florence Gould & others like her who whitewashed a Nazi past with fake philanthropy, a collaborator so like Uihlein, Diane Hendricks & Ronald Lauder of today.

"Hitler's Aristocrats" is about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Lady Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, & the Mitfords...

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"When you study the Holocaust on an academic level, you learn two things: First, yes, however bad you thought the Nazis were, they were worse. And second, they were totally average, ordinary people. The second point is key. It's why historians are warning us now about Republicans."

And I think that today's Nazis in the USA and UK are further to the right than Hitler was at this stage of his rise. The Germans didn't just march in and start gassing Jews on Day 1.

"New York is home to six species of Chiroptera that overwinter in the state; the animals cope with the cold by hibernating, usually underground, in caves or abandoned mine shafts. Dangling from the ceiling by their toes, the bats descend into a state of torpor so complete it resembles suspended animation. Because they don’t move, hibernating bats are easy to census."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/spored-to-death-blight-fungi-and-the-coming-pandemic/

"Multivalent antigen display is strongly associated with higher antibody titers and therefore likely has a direct influence on the interaction with B cells. Yet, mechanistic studies in vivo of how antigen valency affects the B cell response are very limited."
#Immunology

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00367-9

"One group was not strongly represented in the streets of Chicago: African Americans. They knew firsthand how well the city police deserved their reputation for brutality. When Daley spoke of the police adopting a “shoot to kill” approach to disorder, their experience taught that he was not kidding."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/seeing-was-not-believing-when-the-news-broke-hendershot/