Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Why some people don’t trust science – and how to change their minds

“The messenger is every bit as important as the message. Our work confirms many prior surveys showing that politicians, for example, aren’t trusted to communicate science, whereas university professors are. This should be kept in mind”

Remember this the next time right wing media/politicians target educators, universities, education, etc.
#Disinformation #Education #Science #Academia #Scicomm

https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-dont-trust-science-and-how-to-change-their-minds-219579

"In normal times, the United States stands out among advanced democracies for its high levels of poverty and its low levels of aid. In 2019, right before Covid struck, America’s relative child poverty rate resembled that of Mexico or Bulgaria."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/tools-to-end-the-poverty-pandemic-the-viral-underclass/

"One of the strangest and least-studied enigmas, though, is how tattoos survive at all. Our immune system is constantly doing its darndest to destroy them—and understanding why it fails could clue us in to one of our bodies’ most important functions, even when we leave the skin blank."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/tattoo-science-immune-system-effects/673462/

"Despite recent advances in generative models for proteins, we argue that there are three properties that have yet to be realized simultaneously in one system. These are: modelling the joint, all-atom likelihood of sequences and three-dimensional structures of full protein complexes; achieving this with computation that scales sub-quadratically with the size of the protein system; and enabling conditional sampling under diverse design constraints without retraining."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06728-8

Israeli bombardment destroyed over 70% of Gaza homes: Media office | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/31/israeli-bombardment-destroyed-over-70-of-gaza-homes-media-office

"Experts say the besieged strip is unrecognisable and its bombing is the most destructive in modern history."

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ApartheidIsrael #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Liquidation

Postdoctoral Fellow - Cell Cycle Regulation

UMass Chan Medical School

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/umass-chan-medical-school-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-cell-cycle-regulation-2/?feed_id=68971

#cancer_biology #cell_biology #systems_biology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/umass-chan-medical-school-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-cell-cycle-regulation-2/?feed_id=68971

In the fall of 2021, whistleblower Frances Haugen released a massive set of Facebook internal documents to Congress and global news outlets. The documents revealed that Facebook was well aware of the adverse societal impacts of its technology. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/1/278892-computing-you-have-blood-on-your-hands/fulltext

Wow, who could have predicted this... #brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/30/britons-brexit-bad-uk-poll-eu-finances-nhs

The problems with a lack of #socialhousing are pretty clear, but another aspect of concern is the contempt with which some social #landlords treat their tenants and the lack of interest the Housing Ombudsman has in sanctioning those landlords.

What social housing needs is both more building, but also a social shift away from contempt for those who inhabit these homes.

This is just another aspect of the continued divisive role of #classism in British #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/31/uk-housing-ombudsman-failing-to-fine-housing-associations-for-mould

BREAKING NEWS

President Milei today officially announced that he has informed BRICS that Argentina has changed its mind and won’t join BRICS on January 1st as planned by the previous government.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Argentina

"Inflammasome-mediated caspase-1 activation facilitates innate immune control of Plasmodium in the liver, thereby limiting the incidence and severity of clinical malaria. However, caspase-1 processing occurs incompletely in both mouse and human hepatocytes and precludes the generation of mature IL-1β or IL-18, unlike in other cells. Why this is so or how it impacts Plasmodium control in the liver has remained unknown."
#Malaria #inflammasome

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2300440/266573/Inherently-Reduced-Expression-of-ASC-Restricts?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Cutting it a bit fine this year, but it's time again for The Spike's review of the year in neuroscience:

https://medium.com/the-spike/2023-a-review-of-the-year-in-neuroscience-ece56b1dcc89

Enjoy!

Ursula Le Guin on life before Roe vs Wade… From her book of essays Words Are My Matter @bookstodon #feminism #abortion #BeingAWoman

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