Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

@colehaddon
“Just when you learn how to do it, you're too old. Except in your dreams."
this notion is also familiar among experimental molecular biologists

@cyrilpedia lol her "best books" is every single damn one of them

New evidence in mice suggests that cells expressing the transcription factor FOXC2 may form a reservoir of quiescent stem cells that contributes to sperm formation. https://elifesciences.org/articles/90747?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana

I loved the description of the K-T Boundary as a "great ecological cast change"

'We can’t help but draw our own history to this specific moment, the dawn of the Age of Mammals, when fuzzy beasts could finally flourish. Dominant dinosaurs suffered a stroke of cosmic bad fortune, and our mammalian kin inherited a planet where they would no longer have to fear death in reptilian jaws. The image is of a great ecological cast change, different players continuing the evolutionary story. It’s a very appealing distortion.'

'For Le Guin, writing was a “willingness to relinquish control, an act of trust.” Her universes were born of the belief that her imaginative instincts would take her where she needed to go — out among her fellow aliens and the stars.'

https://www.nytimes.com/article/ursula-k-leguin-best-books.html

Madrid vermuterias:

"Two gentlemen, in suits and hats, one with a cane, sat next to each other at the far end of the bar. They looked dressed from an era when people didn’t wear T-shirts and never left the house without a hat.

“I have been sitting in this seat every day for 50 years,” said Jaime, 91."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/travel/vermouth-madrid-best-places-to-drink.html

Lithographic print on wood 12x20cm

#Print #Printmaking #Art #ArtGallery #lithography #Handmade #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/

'Meditations on Mortality and Cinema: Kurosowa, Scorsese, and Friedkin'

A bittersweet cinematic awakening awaits many filmmakers as they approach the end of their lives.

“Just when you learn how to do it, you're too old. Except in your dreams."

Read: https://colehaddon.substack.com/p/a-meditation-on-mortality-in-cinema

#film #movies #cinema #filmmaking #screenwriting #directing #MartinScorsese #AkiraKurosawa #williamfriedkin #art #aging #mortality #lifelessons

A district court judge upheld a US Copyright Office finding that artwork created by AI isn't eligible for copyright protection because it lacks human authorship (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter) http://www.techmeme.com/230818/p18?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a230818p18

Dear journalists,

If you publish an article about a new scientific paper and you don’t include a link to the paper, you suck.

Sincerely,

Possum

"By targeting graduate school applicants, application assistance programs are a powerful and precise method for increasing the representation of minoritized groups in the sciences. These interventions can have a high impact on career outcomes and in remedying the discrepancies between the social and cultural expectations of students and graduate school admissions committees."

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00806-1

"The (re)appreciation that true insight into neural function depends reciprocally on an in-depth understanding of the underlying structure(s) has driven a surge in efforts to develop novel imaging techniques. In fact, keeping track of these approaches, which continue to emerge at a staggering pace, has become a challenge by itself."
#neuroscience @PLOSBiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002221

"In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, a group of paleontologists that analyzed fossil records at La Brea Tar Pits, a famous excavation site in Southern California, concluded that the disappearance of sabertooth cats, dire wolves and other large mammals in this region nearly 13,000 years ago was linked to rising temperatures and increased fire activity spurred by people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/science/climate-paleontology-mammals.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Science

The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
from @sthlmresilience
"Transforming Development: the science and practice" of resilience" has been updated and is now open
https://www.edx.org/learn/social-science/sdg-academy-transforming-development-the-science-and-practice

@enochmm @VaryIngweion mira esta gráfica. es lo que necesitamos hacer para mantenernos en 1.5ºC al 50% de probabilidad sin overshooting. En 6 años el mundo tendría que dejar de emitir el 48% de las emisiones. En 14 años, el 80%. En 24 años, el 99%. ¿Podemos afirmar que estamos avanzando hacia eso? Si la respuesta es no, entonces no hay desacoplamiento suficiente. De hecho la respuesta no es "no", es "no, ni de lejos".

Blaise Pascal died #OTD in 1662. His earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642 he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7913

#books