Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Para Luís Menezes Leitão existem os superiores interesses dos senhorios e pouco mais. Nem uma palavra acerca das circunstâncias em que se encontram milhares de inquilinos e outros tantos que nem conseguem arrendar casa.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/22/opiniao/opiniao/travao-aumento-rendas-luis-menezes-leitao-travao-2064199

What does disgust for disabled people look like in its purest, most densely crystallized form, like a black diamond of hatred spat out by one of the most twisted, hollowed-out, f*cked-up criminals in US history? Imagine supporting this man and calling yourself a "patriot," a "Christian," or even a "human being"? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/

This is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. We are the dystopia now.

I remember when even anti-abortion politicians were careful to say they would never criminalize the pregnant women. Now Nebraska is imprisoning a mother who helped her teenage daughter with an abortion pill.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter

#introduction Hi all, I recently switched instances and am getting my profile set up. If you followed me on my old instance I'll not be using that anymore.
I am a PhD candidate in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working with #intrinsic #manifolds and #decisionmaking , doing some visual cortex research by coincidence.

Overdue #introduction #1stToot

Hi 👋🏼! I’m a #neuroscience Instructor in Rudebeck’s lab at #MountSinai NY.

Strong focus on animal #learning #DecisionMaking #Reward #valuation and how #prefrontal #subcortical regions represent these and interact at the level of #neurons and #LFP.

Proponent of recording neurons in too many areas simultaneously, and a #Matlab enthusiast (I know.. I complain about it too!).

Off lab, you will find me #biking , pushing a #stroller , and/or enjoying #beers.

'Anecdotally, from the clinics we know that some people come back and say, “I feel better” or “I feel I improved.” If you dig a little bit deeper, they did not get back to their baseline; they adjusted their baseline ... Recovery, unfortunately — for fatigue and dysautonomia and all that — is actually quite rare'

#LongCovid

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/do-long-covid-odds-increase-with-second-infection/

Big day for plant neuroscience

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002303

'El teniente coronel brasileño Mauro Cid, que durante cuatro años fue secretario particular de Jair Bolsonaro, ha declarado a la policía que, tras la derrota electoral, el aún presidente se reunió con la cúpula militar para consultarles sobre un posible golpe de Estado'

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-09-21/el-secretario-de-bolsonaro-le-acusa-de-consultar-a-la-cupula-militar-sobre-un-golpe-tras-perder-las-elecciones.html

'Their personalities were fundamentally unalike, in ways that could scratch like sandpaper. The Irish critic George Moore, who hung out with them in Paris, described them thus: “Manet loud, declaratory, and eager for medals and decorations; Degas sharp, deep, more profound, scornfully sarcastic.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/design/manet-degas-met-museum.html

'Because the scRNA-seq dataset had been obtained using CITE-seq, a method that keeps track of cell-surface markers by using oligonucleotide-tagged antibodies, we were able to identify surface markers for human exTreg cells. We found that CD56 and CD16 (normally expressed by natural killer cells) identify human exTreg cells.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01629-4

Gut microbial carbohydrate metabolism contributes to insulin resistance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06466-x

Interesting differences in SCFAs, too, with implications for obsession (of some) with increasing presence of these in the human gut.

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win

Court voted against agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/brazil-supreme-court-indigenous-land-rights-win?CMP=share_btn_tw

Corrupt public officials like #ClarenceThomas do double damage to the citizens they're entrusted to serve.

Not only do they subvert the functioning of democracy by allowing uberwealthy elites to tip the scales of justice in their own favor, they also destroy public confidence in democracy itself, opening the door for more corruption, and ultimately, authoritarianism.

For shame. A functional society would not stand for this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

Much like why there's no bus route on Park Ave, "sustainability" is all platitudes from the rich and never action in their neighborhood.

It now looks like, per another brilliant report by ProPublica, that our dear Justice Clarence Thomas also participated in Koch Network donor events. Is there no end to his corruption and influence peddling? Don’t answer that, I know the answer.