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Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion.

But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

Read more in:
🔬 @KnowableMag arevie.ws/Golgi_KM
🔬 Annual Review of Physiology arevie.ws/Golgi_PH78

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Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion.

But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

Read more: knowablemagazine.org/article/l

#KnowableMagazine
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"That brings us to the star of our show. The Nordic-European Initiative on Colorectal Cancer (NordICC) is a huge randomized trial aimed at rigorously measuring how much colonoscopies reduce cancer and death"

asteriskmag.com/issues/04/you-

Trans-omic analysis reveals opposite metabolic dysregulation between feeding and fasting in liver associated with obesity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

Esquire Magazine did what CNN, The New York Times, and every other mainstream news outlet should have been doing since 2015: they published a headline about him that is actually accurate.

esquire.com/news-politics/poli

On this day in 1952: Chaim Wiezmann died, major organic chemist and 1st president of Israel #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1853: Emile Roux born, discoverer of cause of diphtheria and its treatment #ThisDayinBiotech

Books written by anthropologists embedded with scientists?

I'm reading a book about an anthropologist who embedded with psychiatrists for several years to figure out how they are trained an what they think. Here's a great quote:

"Sometimes they talk about mental anguish as if it were cardiac disease: you treat it with medication, rest, and advice about the right way to eat and live. A person who has had a heart attack will never be the same—he will be always a person who has been very seriously ill—but he is not his heart attack. His heart attack is in the body, not the mind. When psychiatrists talk in this manner, psychosis and depression become likewise written on the body ... Sometimes, though, psychiatrists talk about distress as something much more complicated, something that involves the kind of person you are: your intentions, your loves and hates, your messy, complicated past ... From this vantage point, mental illness is in your mind and in your emotional reactions to other people. It is your “you.”

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/1

In it, Luhrmann references another book in which an anthropologist embedded with nuclear weapons researchers:

ucpress.edu/book/9780520213739

I'm so curious about this genre. Are there other books like it that you know and would recommend?

Announcing a new preLights webinar series: From preprint to publication

Martin Estermann will host this series which will focus on the journey of the preprint. The first webinar, on Thursday 30 November at 17:00 EST, will feature Prof Roger Pocock & preLighter Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe talking about a preprint on sphingolipid homeostasis & the development and intergenerational health of the nervous system.

More information + registration 👉 prelights.biologists.com/news/

#webinar #preprint #PeerReview

'As the news business has shrunk over the past 20 years, the work traditionally done by legacy institutions—building an audience, securing funding, promoting pieces—has fallen to the writers themselves. “To be a writer today,” as Allegra Hobbs wrote several years ago, “is to make yourself a product for public consumption on the internet.”'

thenation.com/article/society/

edibble: An R package to encapsulate elements of experimental designs for better planning, management and workflow

is now on arxiv 🥳

📃 arxiv.org/abs/2311.09705

If you prefer the html version, written using Quarto manuscript, you can find this at:

🔗 emitanaka.org/paper-edibble

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"Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred."

- Václav Havel

(Today marks the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, which is commemorated as Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.)

"Using this strategy, the origin of the calculating paradigm in Europe can be traced to the introduction of Arab mathematics during the late Middle Ages. The epicenter was northern Italy. This was where Leonardo of Pisa’s Liber Abaci was published in 1202, and from the thirteenth century onward the region saw widespread adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals and attendant methods for calculation and problem solving."

worksinprogress.co/issue/how-m

Advertisers are wondering why Musk was making comments seen as antisemitic and why their ads were showing up next to white nationalist and Nazi content, according to internal messages that were viewed by The New York Times. nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technol

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