Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

The best time to join a union was yesterday, the second best time is today.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bullying-feature-uk-research-universities-not-bug

My friend Scott Wesley Long and his team at Houston Methodist today identified the first case of BA.2.86 in Texas, only the 4th so far in the US! It’s spreading slowly (other lineages still dominant) but it’s spreading. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/swesleylong_houston-is-in-a-summer-covid-wave-what-to-activity-7103071664933933056-KS4a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

'From their first appearance in the U.S., the syringe tides were a ready-made tabloid sensation, and a shocking visualization of the perils of a throwaway society. In the years that followed, major efforts would be taken to reduce Americans’ solid-waste production and protect its shores. But the steel-and-plastic flotsam raised a more specific warning, too, about the increasing and deliberate wastefulness of the American health-care system. That concern went unheeded at the time.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/hypodermic-needles-disposable-syringes-washed-up-beaches/675167/

Ten new faculty positions at the The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (with ten more to open by 2026).
Application deadline: October 31, 2023.

https://groups.oist.jp/facultypositions

Tardigrades have survived every mass extinction on Earth since they evolved about a 1/2 billion years ago.There are ~1,300 known species.

And millions of years from now, they won’t even notice we’re gone.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tardigrades-turn-out-not-be-dna-thieves-180964236/ #nature Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library

Today's must read.👇

"For a long time, democracy in the U.S. meant democracy only for white men. Constitutional sheriffs are making this argument again in their quest to keep the country white, one county at a time." https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/sheriffs-who-back-the-great-replacement-as-the-new-big-lie/

“My only advice to our large and diverse community is to do everything we can to make science and peer review transparent.”

Author, Subhash Kulkarni, tells us about their experience of publishing a Reviewed Preprint.
https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/96648f88?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history

#Twitter #Biometrics #PowerfullyShittyChoices

For the last two summers, some of Europe’s most notorious neo-Nazi networks met for a recreational retreat, with concerts, combat fighting and hot tubs, at undisclosed resorts in the Finnish wilderness. Teemu Nieminen and @ColborneMichael found the location. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/08/31/saunas-and-swastikas-finlands-summertime-neo-nazi-meet-up/?utm_source=mstdn

📢New #BehindthePaper story on the Node

Tirtha Das Banerjee and Antόnia Monteiro tell the story behind their paper exploring the expression and function of Wnt signaling pathway members in setting up butterfly wing patterns 🦋

https://thenode.biologists.com/patterning-the-butterfly-wing-through-wnt-signaling/research/

“Justice #ClarenceThomas disclosed Thursday that Republican megadonor #HarlanCrow paid for private jet trips for Thomas in 2022 to attend a speech in Texas and a vacation at Crow's luxurious New York estate, according to newly released financial disclosure forms.” #SCOTUS

https://apple.news/AspJPYdTMQsaYlwKsSYL26g

X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history