Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

A telling graph
US life expectancy by state vs countries https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/opinion/health-care-life-expectancy-poverty.html?searchResultPosition=1

Open yourself up to the idea that #Bach wrote a comic mini-opera about #coffee and café culture. A German friend sent me this excellent performance of the Coffee Cantata. I thrust it into your timeline to push back the darkness. Tea drinkers are excused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Loyexw3uk

Incredible video shows lightning 'strikes upwards' from Agua Volcano in Guatemala
#AureFreePress

🤒 It’s important to schedule any serious illness you have so that they don’t coincide with research funding deadlines 😷⁠
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#scicommgroup #laboratorywork #laboratorymedicine #ScienceJokes #research

Multiple Origins and Genomic Basis of Complex Traits in Sighthounds https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad158 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

More than 150 years after the Sand Creek Massacre, descendants want more authority on the Colorado lands that tribes called home | Colorado Public Radio
https://www.cpr.org/2023/08/18/colorado-cheyenne-arapaho-tribes-land-sand-creek-massacre/

This is an excellent essay on something you all know first-hand but perhaps have never named: Executive Function Theft https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/ from @hedgielib

"...long-term immune system activation in several specific tissues ...SARS-CoV-2 RNA may persist in gut tissue for nearly 2 years after the initial infection. Overall, these observations challenge the paradigm that COVID-19 is a transient acute viral infection and provide evidence for T cell activation and viral persistence in tissues well beyond the initial illness."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.27.23293177v1.full

#covid #research #LongCovid #gut #TCells

Tracing Freud on the Acropolis review

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/06/tracing-freud-on-the-acropolis-freud-museum-london-review-freuds-big-fat-greek-guilt-complex

#florida #library #literature #books Orange County Public Schools here in Florida is reviewing whether to remove Madame Bovary from schools because of its sexual content. I plan to check it out of my local library this week. I never thought, even living in the Banana Republic of Florida, that reading Flaubert could be an act of protest.

I’ve updated the Sciences & their Scientists reference lists (https://toot.cat/@Hashtags/110413239368701976) to include links to other academic databases

Click on the published links to find scientists in your favourite science discipline

Image credit: Mentalab https://mentalab.com/number-of-eeg-channels/

#Academia #Academics #AcademicChatter #ScienceMastodon #Research #PHDChat

On this day in 1915: Carlos J Finlay died, Cuban epidemiologist, 1st to identify mosquito that transmits yellow fever #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1922: Akutsu Tetsuzo born, built & implanted 1st artificial heart that kept an animal alive #ThisDayinBiotech

Note the account name being reported.

Note that twitter deemed that account acceptable.

Note that twitter specifically recommended blocking the account.

Note that Elon now plans to remove the block function from twitter.

See the problem?

Who is this Rorschach guy and why does he paint so many pictures of my parents fighting?