Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

also we are hiring postdocs, please get in touch if you're interested and I'll come by your poster! and/or say hi Sun AM. #SfN23 #SfN2023

The remarkable string of days with record low #Antarctic sea ice extent is coming to an end (started in April/May), as the rate of decline has slowed (melt season - austral spring). 2016 is the record low for November and December.

More graphs: https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

'More than half of all British defence exports go to the Middle East – but to Saudi Arabia rather than Israel. Human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, accuse BAESystems of being party to Saudi war crimes in Yemen, where BAE-supplied (and serviced) fighters have bombed schools and hospitals.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/james-butler/up-in-arms

Interesting #preprint comparing intramural vs extramural funding at the NIH:

"When adjusted for investment, extramural research excels at producing scholarly outputs such as publications and citations, which are standard metrics in academic assessment. In contrast, intramural research, whether basic or applied, stands out for producing research that influences subsequent clinical studies, aligning with its agency mission."
#SciencePolicy

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.09.566298v1

"The prints are very small, some are roughly the size of a stamp, & are at times watercoloured."

Mini-etchings inspired by Seghers, Rembrandt & Bruegel the Younger/loosely inspired by 17th century Dutch landscape paintings.

#Print #Printmaking #Etching #Handmade #Art #ArtGallery

https://madalenaparreira.com/miniature-etchings

A living WHO guideline on drugs for COVID-19

WHO COVID-19 guidelines update

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3379

"Brazil is now the world’s leading consumer of highly hazardous pesticides, and the second leading consumer of all pesticides. In part, this massive consumption is because Brazil applies pesticides (per hectare) at a rate 2.3 times higher than the United States and 3 times higher than China"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306003120?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=pnasnews&utm_content=aec1800f-82f5-4993-9f56-ea54b6ede40b&utm_campaign=hootsuite

"This week, Suella Braverman has undermined the operational independence of the police, angered politicians and communities on all sides in Northern Ireland, stoked the potential for unrest caused by the far right and antisemites at tomorrow’s pro-Palestinian march, earned a rebuke from Winston Churchill’s grandson, and so much more besides – and all out of sheer respect for the dead we commemorate this weekend and every Armistice Day."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/10/remembrance-suella-braverman-home-secretary

Application of liquid-liquid extraction for N-terminal myristoylation proteomics https://www.mcponline.org/article/S1535-9476(23)00188-3/fulltext

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#proteomics #prot-paper

Research Technician

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/european-molecular-biology-laboratory-27778-research-technician-7/?feed_id=65171

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Grenoble #France #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/european-molecular-biology-laboratory-27778-research-technician-7/?feed_id=65171

Fascinating from @kityates on how stats can be used inappropriately https://open.substack.com/pub/kityates/p/did-the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine?r=11blfp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

"Drug companies want to sell drugs and patients want to take them, but unproven remedies erode our faith in industry’s ability to deliver drugs that work and provide false hope to people suffering from life-threatening diseases. It’s a devil’s bargain that serves no one."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/act-up-fda-lessons/

"Books like these demand a certain agreement between writer and reader. The writer must be a knowledgeable guide as they lead the audience deeper into the topic. When done well, the resulting pages look effortless—but authors need to do a lot of background work to be able to explain difficult concepts in clear terms. (An old bit of editor’s wisdom applies here: Often, journalists who are struggling to draft an article don’t have writer’s block; they’re just not done reporting.)"

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/11/the-books-briefing-nonfiction-writers-how-world-works/675963/

"Thomas’s insistence that the bomb was necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender is largely contradicted by his own evidence. In the most interesting and vivid part of his book, he takes us into the hot, humid, mosquito-ridden bunkers at the heart of the devastated Japanese capital, suffused with the ashes of a hundred thousand inhabitants incinerated in LeMay’s fire raids, where a sweating, tiny ruling circle, the so-called Big Six, argued and intrigued. They all knew Japan had lost the war."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/andrew-cockburn/big-six-v.-little-boy

A post from February:
Charles Henry Turner was a pioneer in entomology - and he couldn't get a job in higher ed, so he taught high school biology.

"Across his distinguished 33-year career, Turner authored 71 papers and was the first African American to have his research published in the prestigious journal Science."

His simple but elegant experiments in public parks revolutionized understanding of bees.

https://theconversation.com/charles-henry-turner-the-little-known-black-high-school-science-teacher-who-revolutionized-the-study-of-insect-behavior-in-the-early-20th-century-184030

#BlackHistory #BlackFriday #BlackHistoryMonth @blackmastodon

“One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.”
Stephen King, On Writing. #Books #Bookshelf #writing