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"The findings suggest that the United States has averted a dire outcome — stagnating at pandemic lows — but that many students are not on pace to catch up before the expiration of a $122 billion federal aid package in September. That money — the single largest federal investment in public education in the country’s history — has paid for extra help, like tutoring and summer school, at schools nationwide."

nytimes.com/interactive/2024/0

'What likely set off the transformation is a small, hot-pink sign recently put up in the entryway of the bar. “I’m not ‘the Chinese on the corner’,” it reads in bold white lettering. “You can call me Cai Qin or Jessi. Or a bar, restaurant, cafe or pub.”

theguardian.com/world/2024/feb

Postdoc offer in quantitative ecology and bio pest control, in Southern France for 2, years! Working on insects, doing some modelling

drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Krm

#job #postdoc #ecology #stats #academia #insects @phdlife

Looks like the Crick is creating an incubator in London:

"Companies with a focus broadly aligned to the Institute’s scientific goals in biomedicine will be able to occupy highly serviced state-of-the-art laboratories and office space in close proximity to the Francis Crick Institute and community of researchers, extending the reach of Crick discoveries and becoming part of a globally competitive location for entrepreneurship, technology and idea-generation."

crick.ac.uk/news/2024-02-06_th

MRMPro: a web-based tool to improve the speed of manual calibration for multiple reaction monitoring data analysis by mass spectrometry - BMC Bioinformatics bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentra

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#proteomics #prot-paper

Last year editors at the journal Neuroimage walked out en masse & started something new. This retrospective explains why, and what a positive experience that's been ✊

We all should really stop doing free work for profiteers 🤷‍♂️ #AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

statnews.com/2024/02/01/scient

"Our society can just not miss out on half of its potential," says group leader Stefanie Grosswendt (#mdcBerlin & @bih_charite) in regard to the #WomenInScience Day, which is coming up on February 11.

In early 2022, she received the prestigious @ERC_Research Starting Grant – providing roughly 1.5 million euros in funding over a period of five years.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZY8a5fNc7o

Details: mdc-berlin.de/news/press/erc-a #mdcDiversity #WomenInSTEM #EquityInScience 👩‍🔬👇

Se Mariana Mortágua fosse o Mário Mortágua, todo o país teria reconhecido a firmeza, confiança e assertividade. Como é Mariana, há sempre os que a declaram arrogante e desagradável, porque não fala como a branca de neve. À falta de argumentos contra as ideias, puxa-se do sexismo.

🐦🔗: nitter.cz/joseggusmao/status/1

[2024-02-07 08:47 UTC]

Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: Pathogen community composition and co-infection patterns in a wild community of rodents doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.370

"The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years, and the average duration is almost twice the 15-day threshold that the United Nations has said may constitute torture"

nytimes.com/2024/02/06/health/

Joana Lobo Antunes @JoanaLA at the Champalimaud PostDoc day, describing the moment when she realised science communication could be more than something you do on the side (spoiler: there was a lot of screaming across age groups).

'Twenty days after being infected with C. rodentium, only half of mice that had been bred to lack C3 survived. By contrast, all animals with normal C3 levels survived. Twelve days after infection, mice lacking C3 had lost, on average, more than 20% of their body weight, whereas those with normal C3 levels lost no weight.'

nature.com/articles/d41586-024

"Aproveitando para apelar à vacinação de acordo com o Programa Nacional de Vacinação, a autoridade de saúde nacional recomenda que se alguém esteve em contacto com um caso suspeito de sarampo, ou se tem sintomas, ligue para a linha de saúde 808242424."

expresso.pt/sociedade/2024-02-

"Um novo estudo realizado na Coreia do Sul concluiu que o risco de cancro diminuiu em cerca de 50% após 15 anos ou mais desde a cessação tabágica, em comparação com o risco associado a continuar com o hábito do tabaco."

publico.pt/2024/02/07/ciencia/

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