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Inside: A year in illustration, 2023 edition; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/21/collages-r-us/

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Pharmacogenetic Variation in Neanderthals and Denisovans and Implications for Human Health and Response to Medications https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad222 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Hi Nikki Haley.

Via Wes Lowery:

fearing Lincoln’s election would lead to the national abolition of slavery (a hyperbolic, reactionary response), a series of southern states seceded from the union and formed an avowedly white supremacist confederacy of slave states. that was the cause of the civil war.

#NikkiHaley #racism #GOPfascism #2024election

PS: Stop telling me how much better Haley is than Trump. She’s not. Every single GOP Fascist Party candidate would take us straight to hell.

Donald Trump Is Bad for Vibes https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/12/28/donald-trump-is-bad-for-vibes/

The party that wants to criminalize your healthcare and restrict your healthcare travel has made its decision. It's been there throughout 2023. #usa #donaldtrump #GOP #republican #2024election

The insects in the spotlight this year were bedbugs, which ravaged first Paris (during Fashion Week, no less) and then Asia. But buggy concerns go far beyond this.

While pests are spreading and making pests of themselves, there’s a parallel problem of insect decline (sometimes called the “insect apocalypse”).

Learn more about insect invaders and other major science news from 2023: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/top-scientific-news-and-breakthroughs-of-2023?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=graphic&utm_campaign=originals

#KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon

John von Neumann, born 120 years ago today, laid the foundation for AI. But beneath this revolution in the mystery of minds lurks a haunting exposure of the limits of logic, tugging at the nature of reality itself https://t.co/cAK95lGnVh

Italy ‘concerned’ by Israel’s choice of settler leader as ambassador

> The Italian government has expressed “concern” over Israel’s choice of its next ambassador to Rome because of his close ties to the settler movement in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231228-italy-concerned-by-israels-choice-of-settler-leader-as-ambassador/ #Italy #Israel #Palestine #WestBank #GazaWar #Gaza

Finally! The EU has found a legal way of supporting Ukraine, circumventing the Hungarian blockade, using special rules introduced under the pandemic.

This means an end to the veto blockade from Putin's Hungarian helper, Victor Orbán.
https://news.yahoo.com/eu-covid-19-mechanism-bypass-072100214.html

Via @accretionist

'In Novo Nordisk’s case, thanks to the success of GLP-1s, its owner is now bigger than the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or the Wellcome Trust, the two other powerhouses of medical research funding and philanthropy.'

https://www.ft.com/content/69324884-a626-4787-a4ce-aece410d1dcc

"O racismo e a ausência de sentido crítico em relação ao colonialismo, em Portugal, vêm de longe. Não vale a pena negar que é assim. A inferiorização de pessoas e uma descrição idealizada do processo dos Descobrimentos fizeram parte dos manuais escolares da grande maioria dos portugueses."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/27/opiniao/opiniao/ventura-traficante-louro-prensado-2074907

'The Russian government’s invasion cut off pharmaceutical supplies (...) More than 100,000 Ukrainians with H.I.V., for example, were threatened with losing access to the lifesaving antiretroviral medications they needed.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/opinion/global-immune-system-public-health.html