Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Melaku Worede was at the heart of efforts to secure Ethiopia’s heritage of crop diversity — and in ensuring that farmers benefited. From 1979 to 1993, he led one of the premier crop gene banks in the world, the Plant Genetic Resources Center in Addis Ababa (now the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute). It was a time when uniform monocultures of crops such as maize (corn; Zea mays), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) were being widely planted. Melaku was passionate about saving the diversity of traditional crops before they were lost. The practices that Melaku developed, which he referred to as ‘conservation through use’, are now applied around the world."
(photo credit: Right Livelihood)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02735-x

'LPS induced a sustained increase in IFNγ levels and unresolvable inflammatory lung injury in the mice lacking RGS2 but not in RGS2 null chimeric mice receiving WT bone marrow or receiving the RGS2 gene in alveolar #macrophage.'

#Preprint #immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.22.559016v1

Get 'em while they're hot

“O livro vai vender muito mais graças à lamentável intervenção deste grupo de extrema-direita. Vendo isto numa perspetiva que não é comercial: o livro vai ser lido por muitas mais crianças."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/sociedade/opiniao/bairro-estao-ficar-complicadas-2064453

*chef's kiss* 'Estas ilustrações pedem "Casas para Viver" e estão expostas este domingo em Lisboa'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/24/p3/fotogaleria/cartazes-pedem-casas-viver-vao-expostos-domingo-lisboa-410844

Key word in the complaint: *highlighting*

'Musk’s social media site X, formerly Twitter, claims CCDH cost it “at least tens of millions of dollars” in advertising, by highlighting hateful messages on its platform.'

https://www.ft.com/content/024e90fc-6890-4c2c-81b6-e50eecb25afa

"Here, we describe simple 10 rules (Table 1) that scientists, lab and department heads, scientific institutions, and funding agencies can adopt to curb the abandonment of academic careers by women because of the career penalties associated with motherhood and consequently increase the representation of women in Academia."

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011284

@Ruth_Mottram Not in Denmark, but here are two excellent scientific illustrators

https://joanaccarvalho.com

https://www.gilcosta.com

'As escolas abrem sem professores, os hospitais não conseguem responder ao aumento da procura, as entidades públicas não conseguem atrair nem reter quadros qualificados devido aos baixos salários que oferecem, os jovens não conseguem viver nas grandes cidades, os estudantes deslocados e/ou de baixos rendimentos não suportam os custos de frequência do ensino superior, os transportes públicos falham diariamente por avarias e falta de material e o investimento público está há uma década em níveis historicamente baixos. Apesar disto tudo, é com regozijo que nos anunciam que o Estado poupa mais do que promete'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/economia/opiniao/boas-noticias-fazem-mal-pais-2064443

@albertcardona I often look for theses when I'm preparing an interview, there's a lot of great stuff that doesn't make it into the paper, there's often a well written intro with a more personal point of view - and the acknowledgements are often great for a human interest angle

@halama_immuno @gpollara @chfloudas Thanks for sharing this!