"Since last October, the country has been led by Giorgia Meloni, the head of the hard-right Brothers of Italy party (its logo includes the flame adopted by Mussolini’s supporters after his demise). Before becoming prime minister, she said that rescue ships, which she called “ferries” and likened to human traffickers, should be sunk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/magazine/ghali-italy-migrants.html
"There are around 200 species of malaria parasite that can infect mammals, birds and reptiles. P. vivax is the most widely distributed form of malaria parasite in humans, and it is dominant in the Western Pacific and in highly populated areas of Latin America and Asia."
Significant concerns about the new Alzheimer's drugs
Unpredictable, serious side effects {ARIA]
https://science.org/content/article/will-unpredictable-side-effects-dim-promise-new-alzheimer-s-drugs
Image benefit ≠ Clinical benefit
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807943
Two bodies found drowned and ensnared in #GregAbbott's buoys; one was a child https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/08/02/dead-person-found-in-texas-anti-migrant-buoys-that-mexico-and-justice-dept-want-removed/ #texas
Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
https://www.rawstory.com/florida-bans-ap-psychology-over-gender-identity-orientation-lessons/
Central Florida is a hot spot for leprosy, report says
According to a research letter published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, Central Florida reported among the highest rates of leprosy in the United States. The region accounted for 81% of cases in Florida and nearly 1 out of 5 leprosy cases nationwide. #StrangeTimes https://kbin.social/m/StrangeTimes/t/289002
"While sea surface readings take the temperature of the top layer of the ocean, up to a few hundred feet deep, climate scientists have also been charting how much heat is being absorbed by the ocean as a whole. In short: A lot."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/03/climate/ocean-temperatures-heat-earth.html
New paper by Piovani et al. on single-cell atlases of two lophotrochozoan larvae (oyster and polyclad flatworm). A great collaboration with Telford lab and others, in its final form.
Stress Pathway Development in Zebrafish: Funded Ph.D. and Postdoc positions
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3 CASES HUMAN-DEER-HUMAN ! 🤔
"Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x
Body of a person who drowned in the Rio Grande has been found in the floating barrier of buoys #Texas installed to deter migrants trying to cross from #Mexico. https://www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/the-foreign-ministry-reports-that-a-body-was-found-in-the-buoys-installed-in-the-eagle-pass-area-of-the-rio-grande
“…what drives people out of rural regions is not the lure of city life per se, but the lack of opportunity to improve their situation where they live.”
Very timely and important commentary that should have wider audience. This and other points in the article have been issues for decades in the US. Local farming communities don’t have support from their governments and even the science and research institutions. #agriculture #rural #localfood #farming
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“Developing a structure is seldom that simple. Almost always there is considerable tension between chronology and theme, and chronology traditionally wins. The narrative wants to move from point to point through time, while topics that have arisen now and again across someone’s life cry out to be collected. They want to draw themselves together in a single body, in the way that salt does underground. But chronology usually dominates. On tablets in Babylonia, most pieces were written that way, and nearly all pieces are written that way now.”
- John McPhee, Draft No. 4
'Fatigue is among the most common and most disabling of long COVID’s symptoms, and a signature of similar chronic illnesses such as myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS). But in these diseases, fatigue is so distinct from everyday weariness that most of the people I have talked with were unprepared for how severe, multifaceted, and persistent it can be.'
#COVID #Covid19 #LongCovid
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/07/chronic-fatigue-long-covid-symptoms/674834/
'“Blues for Mama” was the rare protest song that could galvanize multiple social justice movements — civil rights, women’s liberation and Black Power — at once. It would take a quarter century for Simone to reveal in her memoir, “I Put a Spell On You,” that her marriage in the 1960s to Andy Stroud was rife with violence'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/arts/music/nina-simone-blues-for-mama-newport.html
Looking for a job in data? Want to live in peaceful Luxembourg? The Luxembourg National Data Service is recruiting! Check out the ads on their LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/luxembourg-national-data-service-lnds
Plato didn't really contribute very much to the history of science
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/08/02/from-τὰ-φυσικά-ta-physika-to-physics-iii/
#HistoryOfScience
#IDMastodon #Drugdiscovery #Drugdevelopment @DDWJournal #Antibody discovery: Breakthroughs accelerating therapeutic antibodies .Trend and Challenge for therapeutic antibody in pandemic era
https://7915828.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7915828/DDW%20eBOOK%20ANTIBODY%20DISCOVERY_PROTECTED_FINAL.pdf?hsCtaTracking=b9795c08-6d89-4543-97ad-90cc3c6eae68%7C7aadb240-d29f-4505-a29e-578edfcc66da
“Developing a structure is seldom that simple. Almost always there is considerable tension between chronology and theme, and chronology traditionally wins. The narrative wants to move from point to point through time, while topics that have arisen now and again across someone’s life cry out to be collected. They want to draw themselves together in a single body, in the way that salt does underground. But chronology usually dominates. On tablets in Babylonia, most pieces were written that way, and nearly all pieces are written that way now.”
- John McPhee, Draft No. 4
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
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