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'How has the tech sector got away with exceptionalism for so long? Whenever the harmful effects of a new technology emerge, the loudest clamour opposes regulation, arguing that it would strangle innovation and that the engineering is too complex for legislation.'

ft.com/content/c668bf20-40ea-4

'Out of about 34,000 Ph.D. recipients in science/engineering (S/E) fields awarded by US institutions in 2020, 46% (approx. 15,000) held temporary visas, a lower bound estimation of “foreign students”. Among these 15,000 recipients with temporary visas, the largest portion came from China, at 37%, three times the proportion from India, the second largest sending country'

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216

#OTD 28 June 1873 Alexis Carrel was born. A surgeon & biologist, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. He was a leader in Vichy France's eugenics program.

‘It’s like Groundhog Day’: The cancer drug shortage isn’t new — and neither are the solutions statnews.com/2023/06/28/cancer

"The Outer Hebrides Palimpsest. (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1677).

Following the establishment of the Man in the Iron Mask’s identity by use of the correspondence and shopping lists of his jailor, Saint Mars, the Margrave embarked on a reanalysis of one his cartographic collection’s most celebrated collection items, the Outer Hebrides Palimpsest. The connection was tenuous at best: a group of Waldensians fleeing the brutal suppression of the sect in Piedmont arrived at the remote islands at around the time the map was produced. In keeping with our founder’s original mission, the process arrived at no useful conclusions – one unfortunate effect is the damage you see here, the Margrave's effort at redacting the map."
Prof. Horst Manfrenjensenden, Ph.D.
Head of Collections, von Willebrand Trust. Dresden, December 12th, 2022.

@anaanajottajotta @consta_arouca@madparreira @jorgenesbitt

Oubliette" Exhibition at Biblioteca Camoes, Lisbon (Largo do Calhariz, 17). Show runs until the end of June.

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"We review how both TFH and TFR cells express helper and repressor factors that coordinately regulate the Ab response and how the line between these two subsets is less clear than initially thought."

journals.aai.org/jimmunol/arti

'These data suggest that animals overexpressing folr-1 are deficient in their ability to adapt to changes in microbial metabolism, thus revealing an intriguing and non-canonical role of folate receptor in lifespan regulation.'

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

'This is a vision of hell. It is also a glimpse of the future. The Institute for Economics and Peace has estimated that by the middle of the century more than a billion people will be at risk of displacement because of ecological threats.'

lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/ever-

The key words here are "locally acquired".

'In the last two months, at least five people, four in Florida and one in Texas, have been infected with malaria in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health advisory on Monday. These are the first known cases of locally acquired malaria in the country since 2003.'

nytimes.com/2023/06/27/health/

“Fascist” is not a term I use lightly, but the Silicon Valley vogue for administering performance-enhancing drugs to improve human capital is, well, fascist. My latest: newrepublic.com/article/173957

Gavi has approved adding a 6-in-1 vaccine to the roster of jabs it helps countries buy. There's hope this one will help in the effort to end #polio transmission & keep it gone after eradication. I wrote about this plan this last week. statnews.com/2023/06/23/polio-

Are you searching for an opportunity to learn how to perform #PeerReview?
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In July ASAPbio is kickstarting this year's Crowd Preprint Review. Join other researchers in your field and work together to review #preprints.
#RecognizingPreprintReview

In this issue: the evolutionary history of honeybee viruses, reducing air pollution disparities, and low estrogen may worsen the circadian effects of light pollution. ow.ly/sH9k50OYuP2

When life gives you lemons, make some of the funniest material ever caught on film.

"Harold (Ramis) embraced the cheapness of SCTV. Eugene (Levy), Catherine (O'Hara) and I were always moaning about how bad the sets looked and how shitty the props were. Harold would just chuckle and go, “That’s part of the charm!”"

torontolife.com/culture/untold

I am looking for a PhD-Student to work with me in Mannheim/Germany. This project aims to understand how we can use improved sleep to enhance the outcome of a smoking cessation training. We will us neuroscientific methods to also understand the mechanism of such an effect. Applicants must be fluent in German. Here is the add and application portal: einzigartigwir.de/stellenangeb

#PhD #Neuroscience #ClinicalPsychology #jobs

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