Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

On this day in 1904: Ludwik Gross born, demonstrated viruses cause cancer in mammals #ThisDayInBiotech

Interested in how cells influence their neighbours?

Want a flexible, sensitive, unbiased approach to explore neighbour responses?

Tamina Lebek presents PUFFFIN: Positive Ultra-bright Fluorescent Fusion For Identifying Neighbours

PUFFFIN has SO MANY great features and we are very excited about using it to understand development, homeostasis, and disease

Here are some of the clever tricks that Tamina thought up to make this system so useful...

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.06.556381v1

Une découverte hier soir : Rembrandt x Astérix
Quand Goscinny et Uderzo parodiaient la célèbre leçon d'anatomie du Dr Tulp.
Album "Le Devin" page 10 😉

#histoire #anatomie #medecine #histoiredelamedecine #histoiredelamédecine #BD #bandedessinee #asterix #asterix

Come join us! The Hearing Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania has an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in auditory systems neuroscience to join our team. Applications are accepted on rolling basis, with preference given to applications received by Oct 16.
https://www.med.upenn.edu/pennhearing/

Application is available here: https://apply.interfolio.com/100900

For the CRISPR Fan(zor)atics: RNA-guided DNA endonucleases discovered in eukaryotes https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00655-X?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You go through a lot of interns...

'Until recently, the only reliable way to determine the age of a polar bear has been to extract a premolar and inspect its growth rings. “No researcher wants to do it,” Dr. Woodruff said'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/science/wildlife-aging-epigenetic-clocks.html

'His cabinet—the first to include a peasant and an industrial worker as ministers—had undertaken a series of reforms, the most impressive of which was the nationalization of the enormous copper mines, until then owned by predatory US corporations'

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

We're in the basement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRr_TqLDf4

https://madalenaparreira.com

'Cooke had always admired Bob Dylan’s civil rights song “Blowin’ in the Wind”. He pulled it straight into his own live repertoire, but still, as biographer Daniel Wolff wrote, something troubled him: “Geez, a white boy writing a song like that?” A 2005 biographer, Peter Guralnick, said that Cooke was “almost ashamed not to have written something like that himself”.
(photo © Jess Rand/Getty)

https://www.ft.com/content/8b88324c-4752-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab

Danes legally robbing migrants of all their belongings (other than wedding rings):

"Se han aprobado leyes, como la danesa, que permite a las autoridades confiscar todo el dinero y objetos de valor de los inmigrantes, con la excepción de los anillos de boda."

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-09-03/la-peor-cara-de-europa-con-los-migrantes.html

TikTok is spending $1.3 billion to dodge bans in Europe.

European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.

“TikTok poses several unacceptable risks for European users, including data access by Chinese authorities, censorship, and the tracking of journalists".

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-is-spending-13-billion-project-clover-europe

#Europe #EU #UK #TikTok #BigTech #China #NationalSecurity #Espionage #Censorship #Privacy

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.

"I Watched a Democracy Die. I Don’t Want to Do It Again."

How Chileans remember the trauma of our past could not be more important than now, when the temptation of authoritarian rule is again on the rise.

#Chile #Allende

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/chile-allende-september-11.html?unlocked_article_code=eTSH1Fxe6x9qrlhhniyV7Q9-dz4XG_1k8DzGBG48WcrvXDpXmIx6rIIPduVZUCTQ2ZPvUSXJ8rbPYe1SAKYXBDNalDzla0id78wgUe5eWA5AbiaEcvatQ4RSK5k6y3pnMbYbEp5d3prr62gFSIF9R1rI23kNq5bso_oGPIuCy1Npue2QKiLJ9X0MKDynbfQPRF3SG790xsWuvY0G6D4nDQnqDBy9Vi8mf9IGxrwJQ92gaA_TWFFryKtDyC-hY7dBd9lktW0HjaSw3SIEBWPP9M3XX6XELAX6nDwzSiQmVsBc_JMGY3Z57lyqEsNO7l4rbmAqiieP2c9kWktmThskhd0WUiM&smid=url-share

Phaeovirus
by Janie
 "Self" versus "other" delineations in biology are fascinating, from both a biological and conceptual standpoint. The example that probably leaps first into people's minds is the human microbiome: the more that is discovered about important microbes living on and in us, the more the concepts of "me"/"my"/"mine"...

Read more > https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/09/phaeovirus.html

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2558977/v1
Pre-print on strain analysis in the airways microbiome

We try to do strain analysis in metagenomes from the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal. Quite tricky samples to work with. None of the state-of-the art tools worked for us: Strainphlan, instrain, StrainGE.

We optimize the parameters of strainphlan to increase recall. We compared the strain resolution to culture and got congruent results.

Commentary and welcome by the President of @ALLEA on the UK signing an association agreement to Horizon Europe and Copernicus. Long overdue and great news for science.

https://allea.org/building-bridges-dismantling-barriers-uk-association-to-horizon-europe/

#HorizonEurope #Brexit #Copernicus

Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/11/eu-green-subsidies-biden-no-money-no-common-treasury

#News The Civil War continues

How to harm & demonize people seeking refuge in our country and stick it to those who will treat them as human beings?

Southern #Texas governor buses them to ONE Northern sanctuary city.

"Republican governors like Greg #Abbott of Texas have been sending thousands of migrants to New York City and other so called sanctuary cities. "

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-new-york-citys-migrant-housing-crisis-is-reaching-a-breaking-point

Where is the #DOJ?