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'The Vilcek Foundation launches the fourth chapter in our series of manga produced in collaboration with Hiroki Otsuka. The manga celebrate our Vilcek Foundation prizewinners, and this latest manga highlights the work of neuroscientist and 2020 Vilcek Creative Promise Prizewinner Viviana Gradinaru.'

vilcek.org/news/visualizing-op

𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Join the discussion tomorrow!

Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon with @ProfLaurenRoss and @DaniSBassett

Feb 2 at noon (eastern USA)
Register:
umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/t

#neuroscience

LazyAF, a pipeline for accessible medium-scale in silico prediction of protein-protein interactions biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

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“...there is this otherworld, a world of infinite biological pathways that connect #trees & allow them to communicate, & allow the forest to behave as if it is a single organism. It might remind you of a sort of intelligence.”

ancient-code.com/scientists-on

#EcologicalCommunity

#Community #woodland #nature #health #art

'The American Association of Immunologists (AAI), in order to promote excellence in science education at the secondary school level, is sponsoring a summer research program created specifically for high school teachers: the AAI High School Teachers Summer Research Program in Immunology.'

aai.org/Education/Summer-Teach

"With the rise of year-end reading goals on sites like Goodreads, even those of us who actually like to read can get caught up in the commodification of reading, where productivity must increase year over year. Optimization and efficiency leave very little room for meandering walks with great big books that require deep thought and engagement. And I don’t know about you but that’s what I love about literature the most."

lithub.com/against-disruption-

With the increasing popularity of #preprints comes the growth of preprint review initiatives. In the latest blog from Europe PMC, find out how @sciety and EMBO Early Evidence Base are using the community-endorsed framework DocMaps to help readers navigate the preprint review landscape: blog.europepmc.org/2024/01/dis

President Biden is expected to issue later today an executive order aimed at punishing #Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been attacking #Palestinians in the occupied territory.

politico.com/news/2024/02/01/b

Florida will throw trans people in jail if they try to update the gender on their driver’s licenses.

"They want to humiliate, harass, and use policy to eliminate transgender people from public life.”

lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/florid
#LGBTQ #Florida #Transphobia #Trans #HumanRights #Hate

"So the Republicans are not 'incompetent.' They know what they want, and they know how to get it, no matter how destructive it may be to everyone, including to themselves. Linking Ukraine to the border bill wasn’t a 'strange idea.' It was actually quite rational for an insurgency that’s bent on sabotaging the United States from the inside out. They are not just a pro-Russia faction. They are pro-white confederacy."

rawstory.com/raw-investigates/

"Novartis’ anti-TIM-3 antibody has flunked a phase 3 blood cancer trial, prompting the Swiss drugmaker to pull the drug candidate from its pipeline. The failed study was the biggest test to date of an immuno-oncology target into which a who’s who of leading drug developers have pumped money."

fiercebiotech.com/biotech/nova

Umberto Eco has a cogent essay about how to spot the signs of what he calls "Ur-Fascism", or the essential components of fascism.

I turned it into an infographic, because, well, you know why...

Original article here in PDF: pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_u

#fascism #authoritarianism #elections #infographic #democracy

SNSF Spark call:

"Spark enables researchers to test or develop novel and unconventional scientific approaches, methods, theories, standards and ideas within a short time. Preliminary data do not necessarily need to be available."

snf.ch/en/yFfGJ5y0ZKdif8py/new

Thanks to all the #OpenAccess leaders who shared their take on "Community over Commercialization" during #OAWeek. Read about what's happening in Chile & all over the world in our series of profiles about efforts to advocate for open knowledge sharing.sparcopen.org/impact-story/the

Early life adversity drives sex-dependent changes in 5-mC DNA methylation of parvalbumin cells in the prefrontal cortex in rats biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

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