Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Check out @PLOSBiology's new collection on "Engineering plants for a changing climate".

You can read more about the rationale behind the collection in our editorial (https://plos.io/3rFfmjQ)

Read on below for a thread with a collection overview.

#ClimateChange #plants #engineering #sustainability #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #foodsecurity #carboncapture

https://plos.io/3pTSI6U

“Mire usted”, le contestó, “cuando tomé posesión me dijo el rector: Tiene usted ahora que ir al Sr. arzobispo para ponerse a su disposición.

—¿Y por qué?, dije yo.

—Hombre, es lo que hay que hacer, ¿no le parece?

—Pues me he venido sin más [a Madrid] y que le den por culo al arzobispo y al rector”.

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-08-06/el-enigma-del-doctor-arteta-el-genio-de-la-patologia-que-renuncio-a-ser-catedratico-que-le-den-por-culo-al-arzobispo-y-al-rector.html

'Across America right now, parents face a possible nightmare: taking a sick child to the doctor, only to be told at the front desk that their health insurance is no longer valid. The reason is that millions of low-income American families have lost Medicaid benefits because they have to jump through an unexpected administrative hoop, resulting in a slow-burning crisis.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/08/health-insurance-losing-medicaid-coverage-verification-disenrollment/674929/

Late to the party but here I am now on mastodon! Follow me if you are interested in uk academia, higher education, developing educational analog games, dignity at work, critical management studies, business ethics, or just general nerdery about sci-fi, fashion or fantasy.
#games #ethics #academia #introduction

Frederick C. Robie House, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1910 in Chicago. In black and white

YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/frederick-c-robie-house-by-frank-lloyd-wright-chicago-patricia-hofmeester.html

By https://buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #WallArt #homedecor #fineart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BuyArtNotCandy #photography #SpringIntoArt @PatriciaPhotos
#FrankLoydWright #architecture #RobieHouse #chicago #blackandwhite #house

"In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black" https://www.businessinsider.com/in-every-reported-false-arrests-based-on-facial-recognition-that-person-has-been-black-2023-8

Postdoctoral fellow in neurology, lipid biology and metabolomics

Harvard Medical School & Brigham & Women's Hospital

Come join us in #Boston as a #postdoctoral fellow studying #lipid metabolism in neurodegenerative disease to identify therapeutic targets.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/harvard-medical-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/harvard-medical-school-brigham-womens-hospital-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-neurology-lipid-biology-and-metabolomics/?feed_id=54071

@cellpress
Unveiling TMEM106B: SARS-CoV-2’s secret entrance to the cell
📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867423007389
📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell/vol/186/issue/16

Sensory neuroscience meets climate change.

"Dungeness crabs hunt by flicking their chemical-detecting antennae to and fro. Sensing the water—the underwater equivalent of sniffing the air—is a well-known strategy for homing in on potential prey. But that timeless tactic appears to be at risk, as new research shows that climate-change-induced ocean acidification seems to cause Dungeness crabs’ antennae to falter."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/climate-change-ocean-acidification-crabs/674932/

'When my college roommate concluded with a personality test that I was the “creative” type, the rest of my friends said that couldn’t be right, because “I was a scientist and therefore was not creative.” When I tell people I’m in a chemistry Ph.D. program, they often respond with something along the lines of, “I could never do that because I am more of the creative type.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-centering-my-creativity-helps-my-science

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/06/amazon-mark-ruffalo-indigenous-peoples-world-rainforest-life

"Still may syllabes jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never!"
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme

Ben Jonson died #OTD in 1637. Apart from two tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, Jonson's work for the public theatres was in comedy. The comedies of his middle career are for the most part city comedy. His late plays exhibit signs of an accommodation with the romantic tendencies of Elizabethan comedy.
@wikipedia

Books by Ben Jonson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1269

#books #literature

Interesting pre-print on the metabolic interactions between species that drive #microbiome structure and function. Emphasises the importance of considering community-wide interactions when microbiome #engineering, rather than focusing on individual bugs.

#biorxiv #metabolism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.26.477953v2

Just like a mob boss would! “If you weren’t such a p*ssy you’d do this for me. You’re too honest! It’s aspirational!”

When are we going to stop calling these "gifts," "loans," "personal financial arrangements," and call them what they are.
They're bribes.

Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 R.V. and the Friend Who Financed It https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/clarence-thomas-rv-anthony-welters.html?smid=nytcore-android-share