Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

RT by @CopernicusEU: Our latest #CopernicusObserver is out

📚It details the worrisome succession of #wildfires 🔥, #heatwaves ♨️, and #droughts 🚱 which characterised the summer 2023

Read at 🔗 https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news/observer-summer-extremes-captured-copernicus

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[2023-10-14 11:45 UTC]

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[2023-10-16 09:11 UTC]

Heat is making our planet uninhabitable. Why isn't this the top news story around the world? | Salon.com

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/16/heat-is-making-our-planet-uninhabitable-why-isnt-this-the-top-news-story-around-the-world/

#ClimateChange

Booooo

"QI has located no evidence for the existence of this quotation in the 1860s, 1870s, or 1880s. The earliest citation known to QI appeared in an 1893 text titled “Verbum Dei: The Yale Lectures on Preaching”"

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/

"This series of prints was created between 2017 & 2021.It consists of several aquatints of stages, doors, caves or forests, where figures have been inserted through the technique of chine-collé, and colours added through viscosity printing. "

#Prints #Printmaking #Aquatint #Handmade #ArtGallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Aquatints

The wrong end?

"We now call them B cells, the B standing for bursa of Fabricius. This is an organ, situated at the wrong end of birds, that mammals lack: we produce B cells from our bone marrow."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/october/bursectomised-chickens-and-other-breakthroughs

"While the prevailing theory was that small particles, called fomites, where responsible for the spread of yellow fever, another theory proposed that mosquitoes carrying a particular pathogen were responsible for the disease. Reed’s task was to determine, once and for all, what exactly caused yellow fever."

https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-celebrate-the-doctors-who-experiment-on-themselves

Journal #authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect how research is done.

In this #PLOSBiology Perspective, Veronique Kiermer argues for urgent improvements to support teams, collaboration, and #openscience.

#publishing #AcademicChatter

https://plos.io/3QgSwJs

Quoi?

"In summary, defined effective anticancer activity of human effector CD8+ T cells with an exhausted-like phenotype, supporting clinical exploration of such cells in adoptive T cell therapies."
#Preprint #Immunology #immunotherapy

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.11.561856v1

"Their core finding is that eliminating adrenoceptor β1 (ADRB1) from T cells, or globally blocking ADRB1 with beta-blockers, enhances the capacity of T cells to secrete effector molecules and cytokines and increases effector capacity in chronic infections and tumors."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01650-7

(Image: Hokyoung Kim)
"Fire is a natural phenomenon; some species actually benefit from its effects and even those that don’t can be remarkably resilient in the face of flames. But as fires intensify, they are beginning to outstrip nature’s ability to bounce back. “Not all fires have the same impact,” said Morgan Tingley, an ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “These megafires are not good for ecosystems.”'

#pyrocene

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/science/climate-wildfires-ecosystems.html

Effect of seven anti-tuberculosis treatment regimens on sputum microbiome

*"Shorter efficacious anti-tuberculosis regimen with improved treatment outcomes might be achieved without harming the commensal microbiota."*

Recovery in respiratory microbiota looks reassuring (1st fig👇). Nice control that Mycobacterium tuberculosis no longer detected on treatment! (2nd fig👇)

#IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #medicine #microbiome #microbiology #tuberculosis #tb #antibiotics
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00191-X/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

@cyrilpedia Wonder if we’ll see declarative “never LLMmers” like the “pure good” anti-vaccine peeps?

@lymphomation @cyrilpedia
The folks at This Week in Virology discussed this recently.