Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Holy sh*T

"Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it with Facebook for targeted advertising, the Observer has found."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/15/revealed-metropolitan-police-shared-sensitive-data-about-victims-with-facebook

Unraveling the tangled #evolution of #figs.

#genomics #phylogenetics #introgression #Ficus

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-unraveling-tangled-evolution-figs.html

@Nature Ensitrelvir treatment of hamsters infected with the virus possessing Nsp5-M49L/E166A was ineffective; however, #nirmatrelvir or #molnupiravir treatment was effective. Therefore, it is important to closely monitor the emergence of #ensitrelvir-resistant #SarsCoV2 variants to guide antiviral treatment selection.
In vitro and in vivo characterization of #SarsCoV2 resistance to #ensitrelvir
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40018-1

Top 10 Strangest Deaths in the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/strangest-deaths-middle-ages/

ERC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow - Molecular mechanisms of neural circuits

Karolinska Institute

We are looking for postdocs for an ERC-funded project involving molecular mechanisms of neural circuits in the mouse brain.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/karolinska-institute-27778-erc-funded-postdoctoral-fellow-molecular-mecha...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/karolinska-institute-27778-erc-funded-postdoctoral-fellow-molecular-mechanisms-of-neural-circuits/?feed_id=50343

Two receptors that alter the migration of developing T cells play complementary roles in preventing autoimmune diseases in mice. https://elifesciences.org/digests/80443/the-path-to-self-tolerance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Sickening: "U.S. climate envoy John Kerry ruled out paying into a global fund to help poorer nations stricken by the devastating impacts of the climate emergency, saying that 'under no circumstances' would the White House consider delivering on reparations."

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/climate-kerry-rules-out-us-paying-reparations-to-low-income-nations.html

#USPol #ClimatePolicy #JohnKerry #BidenAdministration

eLife has recently opened applications for their 2023 Ben Barres Spotlight Awards: a funding scheme that supports the work of researchers from groups traditionally underrepresented in biology and medicine and countries with limited funding.

Awards of up to $5,000 are available to authors of Reviewed Preprints in addition to eLife authors.

The deadline for applications is August 8.
https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/f56fb3c2/ben-barres-spotlight-awards-applications-open-for-2023

Business as usual.

' But Dan Cohn, global energy transition researcher at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said that the oil industry’s climate plans should not be taken at “face value”.

“They have left no doubt that their pledges were deployed for cynical political purposes, only to be ditched when they no longer suited the industry’s strategic position,” he said.” '

#OilCompanies #ClimatePledges #Lies #Profiteering #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

This week we'll get entombed in the Miocene Dominican Amber. This site is easily among the best amber sites in the world yielding a rich array of organisms including spiders, insects, parasites, and flora.
#DAWeek #Paleontology

The team that worked out the Apollo 11 trajectories from Earth to the Moon included Katherine Johnson. She also performed calculations for how the Apollo Lunar Module would rejoin the Command and Service Module back in orbit

Image: NASA

“You needed to be brave…and street smart”

#MoMA #Film #Movies #Art #1980s

https://youtu.be/bq4_A7fX-FY

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Pterosaurs

Hone, David W.E., Lauer, René, Lauer, Bruce, and Spindler, Frederik. 2023. Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26(2):a25.
https://doi.org/10.26879/1251
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur

How we can teach children so they survive AI – and cope with whatever comes next | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/teach-children-survive-ai #AI #education

A peek inside the gorgeous entomology notebook of a 19th century naturalist. https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2023/07/bugging-out-over-jacob-stauffers-sketches-of-insects-1859-1880/