Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#FijiSc being prepped to run on #Java 21: give it a try and please report any issues. See the post by Curtis Rueden at the image forum:
https://forum.image.sc/t/jaunch-a-new-java-launcher-test-fiji-with-java-21/92058/1

#java21 #ImageProcessing #Bioimage

Analysis

"Watching the Watchdogs: Israel’s legacy of media deception stumbles"

"Israel’s deception campaign against UNRWA does not seem to be working as expected. Why?

In the last two weeks, the Israeli government put on a masterclass on how to use the Western media to spread fake news & propaganda & to justify anti-Palestinian actions taken by the U.S. & its allies.

"It worked – but only in part."

Rami Khouri

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/9/watching-the-watchdogs-israels-legacy-of-media-deception-stumbles

#US #UK @israel @Palestine #UNRWA ...

"Em primeiro lugar, a prevalência de soundbites é inversamente proporcional à quantidade de temas essenciais que os debates cobrem. Há um apagão que me deixa especialmente perplexa relativamente a dois assuntos determinantes do nosso futuro no médio prazo – a educação e a ciência."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/09/opiniao/opiniao/debates-quero-2079805

The Sting

"Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

Good tip:

"Uma forma de ver se a informação essencial num documento é legível é converter o documento num ficheiro .txt, desprovido de formatação complexa, e ver se a informação continua perceptível."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/08/tecnologia/noticia/garantir-cv-visto-humanos-dicas-vencer-filtros-ats-2079605

“Rehab delivered live online improves health-related quality of life for people with long Covid at three and 12 months,” study co-author Gordon McGregor, professor of clinical exercise physiology and rehabilitation at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, said on a call with reporters. “This is the first high-quality study to confirm the benefit and also confirm a lack of harm from rehabilitation.”

https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/07/can-exercise-help-treat-long-covid-new-study-finds-patients-improve-with-self-paced-approach/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

@cyrilpedia Oh no. It's one of those https://xkcd.com/1574/ situations, isn't it?

Tesso is a #yokai that takes the form of a gigantic rat. This creature is the vengeful spirit of a monk named Raido who was betrayed by the emperor. Tesso gathered an army of rats that wreaked havoc on the places and people associated with Raido's betrayal.
#Folklore #JapaneseFolklore @folklore @mythology
🎨1. 'The Priest Raigo of Mii Temple' from the 'Thirty-six Ghosts' series - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1891.

Protein Clusters Illuminated with Simple Phase-Separation Technique https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/protein-clusters-illuminated-with-simple-phase-separation-technique/

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#proteomics #prot-article

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen died #OTD in 1923.

Nobel Prize in Physics won for his discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him. In November 8, 1895, he found that, if the discharge tube is enclosed in a sealed, thick black carton to exclude all light, and if he worked in a dark room, a paper plate covered on one side with barium platinocyanide placed in the path of the rays became fluorescent even when it was as far as two metres from the discharge tube.

#physics #science

Fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic from melting glaciers is slowing down the Gulf Stream and other currents.

At some unknown point, it will hit a tipping point that will cause dire global #climate disruption, within a human lifetime.

Details of new research:
https://theconversation.com/atlantic-ocean-is-headed-for-a-tipping-point-once-melting-glaciers-shut-down-the-gulf-stream-we-would-see-extreme-climate-change-within-decades-study-shows-222834 #climatechange (via @TheConversationClimate)

Excellent news: Surge in #endometriosis research after decades of underfunding could herald new era for women’s health - Nature Medicine

"Endometriosis affects 1 in 9 women and people who menstruate (which can include transgender men and non-binary people) — an estimated 190 million people globally. But like women’s health in general, the condition has been “disregarded, overlooked or particularly underfunded”, says Krina Zondervan"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02795-0

Caveat emptor.

"If the reagents used for building libraries themselves (or those used for amplifying and confirming the clones following screening experiments) inadvertently contain cross-contaminated oligos, it will make the situation more complex.
We realized this possibility recently, as we observed some unexpected results (presence of unrelated sequences) when setting up a CRISPR library screening, which prompted us to investigate the issue further. Our systematic analyses of various reagents, research equipment, and multiple vendor-supplied oligos suggested that commercially synthesized oligos are the source for such cross-contaminants."

https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkae068/7602849?login=false