Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🇯🇵 Japan: Sufferers of ‘long COVID’ in Japan struggle to find relief, sympathy.

An estimated 10% to 20% of adults in Japan who have been infected have experienced “long COVID” symptoms.

#COVID19 #Japan #LongCOVID #COVIDisNotOver

Source: https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15123674

"Na exposição intitulada “As Mulheres de Maria Lamas” serão apresentadas pela primeira vez as provas originais e novas provas feitas, a partir dos negativos, por Luís Pavão, que estavam na posse da família. “Estava tudo muito bem guardado e classificado,” explica Jorge Calado. A partilha é, por isso, inédita e realiza-se no átrio da Biblioteca de Arte da Gulbenkian."

https://leitor.expresso.pt/semanario/semanario2673-1/html/revista-e/-e/retratos-de-vidas-escravas

Those odds are not great...

"When livestock are butchered, the bacteria in their intestines can contaminate the meat. One out of every 25 packages of chicken sold at grocery stores contains salmonella, according to the CDC"

https://www.nytimes.com/article/salmonella-causes-food-poisoning.html

'Nestes 23 anos em análise, entre 2000 e 2022, foram identificados mais de 30 mil publicações por investigadores radicados em Portugal neste tipo de revistas científicas, a maioria (19.043) nas revistas da MDPI, considerada predadora. A evolução ao longo dos últimos anos é notória. Enquanto o número de publicações científicas portuguesas estabilizou em torno das 32 mil publicações anuais a partir de 2019, o peso percentual destas revistas com APC não parou de subir: dos 8,8% em 2019 aos 24% em 2022.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/01/21/ciencia/noticia/pagar-publicar-ciencia-portugal-refem-revistas-predadoras-2076622

“You’d never have an ambulance sitting in normal 3 p.m. traffic,” said @macroliter a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Referring to the coronavirus code from 2019, he said, “Why would you allow this sequence to sit there under the same process as a sequence I just got from a new snail species I found in a ravine?”
#Covid #Covid19 #sarscov2

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/science/covid-china-us-pandemic.html

UK government ignored foreign office concerns over Israeli war crimes
This was so they could keep supplying them weapons https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/uk-government-ignored-foreign-office?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 #ForeignOffice #UKGovernment #UkGovernmentCorruption #UKGovernmentShameOnYou #WarCrimes #IsraelIsGuiltyOfGenocide

January 23, 1857, birthday of Croatian meteorologist and seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić. He discovered the crust-mantle boundary - known also as Moho by geologists - analyzing the seismic waves generated by an #earthquake in 1909 .

https://youtube.com/watch?v=omZj4GboJ00

E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that E.U. foreign ministers had agreed to use revenues from frozen Russian assets to assist Ukraine. He added that he expects work on the matter to soon be finalized.
https://t.co/VmAnpSXVEL

For #CellMigration lovers
How do cells decide when facing a symmetric junction?
The membrane oscillates exploring both directions until one arm wins.
TLDR: this depends on the actin cytoskeleton & cancer cells decide faster than healthy cells
#scicomm @pj_saez
Full https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02335-6

Tal Mitnick, who was just released after being jailed for refusing to serve in the Israeli military, is telling the world: "I got to return to my family, but hundreds of Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons without charges"

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

168 proteomic databases/scripts/programs added to Pastel's Resource page in 2023

Here's a random selection from the webpage http://bit.ly/1J4g3CE …

https://hpcwebapps.cit.nih.gov/CPhos/ | CPhos DB | identify evolutionarily conserved phosphorylation sites

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#proteomics #prot-other

Academic colleague telling me yesterday of one of his students that used ChatGPT in an assignment, which referenced a set of non-existent papers. He asked student to provide links as he didn't recognise the authors and was having trouble finding them. Student provided a completely different, unrelated set, and claimed the first batch were "placeholders".
Hmm.

#ArtOfJapan
#TsuchiyaKoitsu
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