Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

@liaferreira Eu tenho o do meio, muito bom.

@rdrighetto As a Brazilian genius put it, "todo artista tem que ir aonde o povo esta".

'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01637-2

'Disrupting Ccr2, which coordinates inflammatory macrophage recruitment to atria, or Spp1, which helps to drive inflammatory fibroblast activation by macrophages, ameliorated disease burden in HOMER mice, suggesting two potential immunotherapy targets for Afib patients.'

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq3061

'Without an improvement in MMR vaccination rates, the capital could experience an outbreak of between 40,000 and 160,0000 cases, fresh analysis by the UKHSA suggests. Experts said an outbreak of this scale could lead to dozens of deaths and thousands of people hospitalised.'

#Measles #PublicHealth #vaccines

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/14/measles-outbreak-risk-london-uk-health-security-agency-mmr-vaccine-take-up?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

For the fortunate, fifty is the new thirty:

'Even for those lucky enough to get an academic appointment, the bad news seems to be that it is getting harder to establish a research program. For example, the average age for a researcher to get their first NIH grant (a virtual requirement for tenure for many biologists in the US) is now 42 years old. National Public Radio quips “50 is the new 30, if you’re a promising scientist.”

https://caseybergman.wordpress.com/2012/08/26/the-logistics-of-scientific-growth-in-the-21st-century/

'Existem duas Igrejas: a do Papa Francisco e uma velha Igreja bafienta e conservadora. A do Papa Francisco terá as suas falhas, mas a outra é insuportável. Neste período de preparação da JMJ ficou bem à vista qual dessas correntes da Igreja prevalece em Portugal.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/14/opiniao/opiniao/vem-ai-papa-escondam-pobres-2056809

'Over the past three decades, however, archaeological research has made it increasingly clear that the hunters were preceded by much earlier cultures that colonized the Americas between 24,500 and 16,000 years ago.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/science/archaeology-sloths-human-migration.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science