Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

NEW: How Harlan Crow Slashed his Tax Bill by Taking Clarence Thomas on Superyacht Cruises
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In lavishing gifts on the #SupremeCourt justice, the billionaire #GOP donor may have violated #tax laws, according to tax experts.

#HarlanCrow #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #Taxes #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

This month's Highlight takes a deep dive into the evolution of clownfish https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad127 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Through to 15th October, there are Digital Storytelling events taking place at the British Library

https://www.bl.uk/events/digital-storytelling

Yes, Covid deaths have dropped to their lowest levels since the beginning of the pandemic. But there's plenty of #SARSCoV2 circulating, tens of millions of people w/ #LongCovid, and the potential of a bad new strain in the future
https://nytimes.com/2023/07/17/briefing/covid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Europe should cap ‘luxury’ energy use to meet emissions targets, study says - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/17/europe-cap-luxury-energy-use-emissions-carbon-budget-targets-study makes sense, but the rich will never allow it...

One of my professors during PhD used to say “you can drive a truck through the holes in any given paper. so you look for what you *can* learn instead.” and being the smartass grad students we used to think driving that truck was fun. After so many years, I now appreciate her wisdom more than ever. All scholarly work has limitations but it’s refreshing when people critically evaluate what’s the actual value of the research. It's about humility, honesty, rigorous intellectual work.

Promising news, vivax is the dominant plasmodium species in many regions - including Brazil.

"Here, Hou et al. report encouraging clinical trial results testing the safety and efficacy of two vaccine candidates, both based on the P. vivax Duffy-binding protein region II (PvDBPII). One of the vaccine candidates, an adjuvanted PvDBPII protein vaccine, elicited the strongest antibody responses, particularly when delivered in a delayed dosing regimen."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adf1782

'Here, using an unbiased proteomics approach, we questioned the relationship between Aβ and age-related protein insolubility. We demonstrate that, in C. elegans, Aβ expression is sufficient to drive proteome-wide protein insolubility.'
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.13.548937v2

'Little did I know that, even if the field of Spanish was still somewhat shielded from the fallout, the humanities were already being dismantled, and the 2008 financial crisis would bring a long-term reckoning.'

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-humanities-are-worth-fighting-for/

From Madalena Parreira's relief etchings on copper (1999-2006).

#Prints #Print #printmaking #printmakingart #printmaker #etching #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Etchings

'In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is one of the two or three novels that I love most. But don’t ask me to admire its gigantic unfinished expanse! Imagine a castle so huge that the eye cannot take it all in at a glance. Imagine a string quartet that lasts nine hours. There are anthropological limits—human proportions—that should not be breached, such as the limits of memory. When you have finished reading, you should still be able to remember the beginning. If not, the novel loses its shape, its “architectonic clarity” becomes murky.'

- Milan Kundera

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2977/the-art-of-fiction-no-81-milan-kundera

Open position for a professor in Evolutionary Ecology @dee_unil! Assistant prof level, associate prof possible. Priority to an experimentalist with expertise in organismal biology. Generous startup package and core funding.

https://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuinst/open-position-in-evolutionary-ecology.html

#ecoevo #EvolutionaryBiology #TenureTrack @marcrr

Cool computational method for separating γδ #Tcells by #rna #sequencing
Rather than relying on paired #TCRseq or #CITEseq, they calculate module scores of TCR constant and variable regions

https://doi.org/10.1093/jleuko/qiad069

In the latest #EMBOPodcast, @cyrilpedia and Review Commons' @tlemberger talk to Pavel Tomancak about his research, #preprint publishing, #peerreview, #ai and how to ensure that authors receive proper credit for their contributions to a scientific paper. https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

Issue 13 has closed & Issue 14 is open

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/13

The cover image by Fredrik Christiansen shows southern right whale mother–calf pair surfacing and accompanies the research article by Christiansen &co which uses aerial footage to measure breathing rates in whales and how much energy they expend.

#comparativephysiology #science #whales #zoology

The temperature in China hit 126°F today (52.2°C.)
That beats the old record by an almost inconceivable 3°F.
The world is on fire.

The G.I. Bill created the prosperity & laid the groundwork for the American superpower. But the postwar boom stopped at the color line. Black American frustration at discriminatory distribution of G.I. benefits would soon erupt into the modern Civil Rights Movement. These discriminatory practices and systemic barriers faced by Black -American veterans under the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences that persist today.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History

In the middle of a record-breaking heatwave, a new Texas law will remove local rules that require water breaks for construction workers. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/14/texas-houston-worker-protest-water-breaks-law/

Hi all 👋
I'm a #microbiology researcher working with #Antarctic soil microbes, mainly #Streptomyces and #fungi, with an aim to find new #antibiotics or other #NaturalProducts.

I love photographing microbes and will mostly be posting colony pics and #microscopy.

Otherwise, you can find me lurking around posts about #science, #politics, #health, #dataviz, #climatechange, #socialjustice and #undergroundmusic
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