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"She credits her postdoctoral research programme, the US National Institutes of Health’s institutional research and academic career development award (IRACDA), with teaching her about great mentorship."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

"Educating doctors is a long and expensive process, but not every country can reward its graduates equally. Health spending per capita varies drastically in EU countries, from €816 per year in Romania to more than €4,000 in Luxembourg, Germany and other Western European countries. And so doctors and nurses follow the money."

politico.eu/article/doctors-nu

"Up to 18 children from the UK, Spain and the US are being recruited to the study, which aims to transform treatment of auditory neuropathy, a condition caused by the disruption of nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain."

ft.com/content/fc34dbe1-db03-4

Hardest hit by the exodus of doctors and nurses: the EU's newest members, plus crisis-hit Portugal and Greece, according to POLITICO's analysis of Commission data.

politico.eu/article/doctors-nu

Welcome to our new Editor, Renata Basto. Renata will handle papers focussing on the cell cycle, centrosomes, chromosomes, mitosis, genetic instability, mitotic spindle, microtubules, aneuploidy and polyploidy. If you have an article on one of these topics, consider sending it our way! bit.ly/45s0gwx

"Suddenly you become a public figure being asked to do all sorts of things: to give lectures, quite often on topics you know little about; to sit on committees and reviews you are not always well qualified to be on; to visit countries you have barely heard of; to sign endless petitions on what are probably good causes, but you never know. It is like having a whole new extra job, with upwards of 500 requests a year. It is impostor syndrome on steroids."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"Además, unos meses antes del conflicto, X eliminó el acceso a una herramienta de datos que era gratuita para los académicos y que se empleaba para identificar las cuentas que se dedicaban a difundir información falsa. Los expertos en verificación de información aseguran que la avalancha de falsedades nunca ha sido igual."

elpais.com/tecnologia/2023-10-

"We identified approximately 13,000 sensor histidine kinases, chemoreceptors, receptors involved in second messenger homeostasis and Ser/Thr phosphatases from 8,000 bacterial and archaeal species that contain the amine-recognizing motif."

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305

KRAS update

"Here are the FDA briefing documents for the meeting being held today (Thursday, October 5). If you read Amgen’s press releases from the last two or three months and then read this stuff, you will feel as if you have stepped through a portal into another dimension."

@dereklowe.bsky.social

science.org/content/blog-post/

Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers.

Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023.

joanwestenberg.medium.com/ther

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez (hosted by Miya Pan, Schwander group) for a talk on self-nonself recognition systems and speciation. Oct 18 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online rec.unil.ch/lives/live_80807

'An immunoprevention strategy for 's disease is required that will integrate the findings from clinical trials with mechanistic insights from preclinical disease models to select promising antibodies, optimize the timing of intervention, identify early biomarkers, and mitigate potential side effects.'

cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8

‘Wales, though. It’s not a huge place.’
‘It’s exactly the size it is, isn’t it?’ Shirely said. ‘Reports are always saying something’s “an area the size of Wales”. And that’s exactly the size Wales is.’
This was met with a short silence.
- Joe Country, Mick Herron.

France exposes mega Russian disinformation campaign

> France has uncovered a wide-ranging Russian disinformation campaign to undermine Western support to Ukraine, the country's agency in charge of spotting foreign interference online announced Tuesday.
politico.eu/article/france-acc #France #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineWar

Interesting by Joachim Goedhart at the University of Amsterdam on storing and using data generated by students in training courses.

"I present an approach that I call studentsourcing. It collects, aggregates and re-uses data that is generated by students in a practical course on cell biology. The course runs annually and I have recorded the data that was generated by >100 students over 3 years."

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

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