Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“…violence in the #WestBank is also spiking. Attacks on Palestinians by the Israeli military and settlers are up, according to the UNOCHA, which estimates more than 170 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,600 injured in the West Bank since the war began.

…Abuhejleh says that when he tries to get to his olive trees, the war is the reason Israeli soldiers point to for stopping him. He is convinced they are using the war as an excuse to seize Palestinian land.”

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1211987812/israel-hamas-west-bank-gaza-war-conflict-idf?ft=nprml&f=191676894

5. Finally, on Monday Nov 27th at 11 AM at the University of Melbourne I'm giving the Crisis lecture at a venue that I believe is public or at least quasi-public. I'll post a correction if I hear otherwise.

https://events.humanitix.com/carl-bergstrom-the-crisis-of-human-collective-decision-making-in-a-social-media-world

'Todas as áreas da investigação podem beneficiar deste tipo de iniciativas, havendo algumas, como é o caso das ciências biológicas, em que há uma identificação mais rápida de como este potencial pode ser aproveitado. Existe também a ideia de que os projectos de ciência-cidadã se limitam à recolha ou tratamento de dados, noção que é contestada por Cristina Luís. “As pessoas podem estar envolvidas noutras partes do processo científico – por exemplo, na geração da ideia do que se vai fazer”, explica.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/13/ciencia/noticia/cienciacidada-cientista-2069275

'La hipótesis de que una proteína pudiera ser el agente de una enfermedad infecciosa originó mucho escepticismo, pero eso no desanimó a Prusiner que, dos años más tarde, en 1984, volvía a sorprender a la comunidad científica mostrando que el gen que codifica tal proteína se encuentra en el genoma de muchos mamíferos, incluido el hombre. Resultaba increíble que el prion, presunto agente de gravísimas lesiones neurodegenerativas, fuera sintetizado normalmente en nuestro propio organismo.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/materia-gris/2023-11-10/que-es-y-como-se-conocio-la-enfermedad-de-creutzfeldt-jakob.html

Chickenpox vaccine should be given to children on NHS, JCVI says

#vaccine #vaccination #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon #medicine #chickenpox #varicella #VZV

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/14/chickenpox-vaccine-should-be-given-to-children-on-nhs-jcvi-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

> Until now, UK has said that jab could increase risk of chickenpox and shingles in adults

#Transfer and #startups at German #universities - watch this
@stifterverband video on current issues and possible solutions with contributions by
Dietmar Harhoff (in German)
https://youtu.be/cfCyOvz0ZYE?feature=shared&t=5

Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA #OTD in 1851.

Melville first proposed the British publication in a June 27, 1850, letter to Richard Bentley, London publisher of his earlier works. On July 3, 1851, Bentley offered Melville £150 and "half profits", that is, half the profits that remained after the expenses of production and advertising. Only on September 12 was the Harper publishing contract signed. via @wikipedia

Moby-Dick @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=moby+dick&submit_search=Go%21

#books

"UK to loosen post-Brexit chemical regulations further"

The question in my mind is how easy it will be to undo such regulatory relaxations when the UK or its successor states prepare to rejoin the EU.

#Reach #chemicals #Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/14/uk-to-loosen-post-brexit-chemical-regulations-further

SPDB: a comprehensive resource and knowledgebase for proteomic data at the single-cell resolution https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkad1018/7416372?login=false

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#proteomics #prot-paper

Dear @EU_Commission,

If your best effort at regulating surveillance capitalists results in “give us €9.99/month not to see ads or use for ‘free’ with ads¹”, you should all probably resign and go hide your heads in shame.

And maybe watch my EU Parliament before you do:

https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-at-the-european-parliament/

¹ Not even turn off tracking, mind you, just turn off personalised ads. Not that “your money or your privacy” is better.

#eu #euCommission #surveillanceCapitalism #facebook #SiliconValley #regulation

Nellie Bly was also an inventor in her own right, receiving U.S. Patent 697,553 for a novel milk can and U.S. Patent 703,711 for a stacking garbage can, both under her married name of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman. Bly wrote stories on Europe's Eastern Front during World War I. Bly was the first woman and one of the first foreigners to visit the war zone between Serbia and Austria. She was arrested when she was mistaken for a British spy.

Books by Nellie Bly at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9648

#books

@cyrilpedia e nem falemos do facto de, em Novembro, não haver orçamento das UI definido para 2024. 🤬

'Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil fell to a five-year low, the country’s National Institute of Space Research announced on Thursday, a sign that Brazil, which has the biggest share of tropical forest in the world, was making progress on its pledge to halt all deforestation by the end of the decade.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/climate/amazon-deforestation.html

"By analysing single-cell sequencing data from patients receiving cell therapy products that are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration or are in clinical studies, we identify the presence of HHV-6-super-expressor CAR T cells in patients in vivo."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06704-2?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1699461023

'What looks like the aftermath of a war zone is in fact an urban environmental disaster of allegedly man-made origin, which has forced an estimated 55,000 people to permanently evacuate their homes in the seaside city of Maceió, north-eastern Brazil.'

https://www.ft.com/content/35dbff19-26b7-4df8-ad78-2b2259ff7c8c