Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Heuer et al. then set out to find which computational model of evolution was able to recreate the anatomies of the cerebellums found in the different mammalian species. They found that a stabilising model – that is, when animals that are straying away from their common ancestor randomly evolve back to these initial properties – worked best. Using this model, Heuer et al. estimated that the organism most mammals descended from probably had a cerebellum similar to the one found in an animal known as the rock hyrax (Figure 1B)."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/93122?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

@failedLyndonLaRouchite Not anymore, the big publishers have shifted to charging a premium (from the authors) for immediate OA.

"The assumption was that once the benefits of open access were explained to them, researchers would voluntarily embrace it – primarily by self-archiving their research in institutional or preprint repositories. But while many researchers were willing to sign petitions in support of open access, few (outside disciplines like physics) proved willing to practice it voluntarily."

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/12/07/where-did-the-open-access-movement-go-wrong-an-interview-with-richard-poynder/

“Ela estava determinada em lutar por justiça e sabia que haveria um “preço” a pagar pela audácia de uma mulher negra, da periferia, levar à justiça um agente da polícia, num concelho em que 76% das queixas contra agentes policiais foram arquivadas entre 2014 e 2019."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/07/opiniao/opiniao/silencio-nao-protegera-2072812

'Pintor, escultor, escritor y activista, Pérez Esquivel la conoció de cerca. En 1977, mientras promovía enlaces entre organizaciones sociales para defender a las víctimas de los regímenes militares en toda Latinoamérica y lideraba la resistencia no violenta contra las dictaduras, fue tomado preso por la de Jorge Rafael Videla. Fue encarcelado y torturado durante 14 meses, y los militares argentinos se lo llevaron en uno de los vuelos de la muerte, desde donde lanzaban a los prisioneros sedados al Río de La Plata.'

https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-12-07/adolfo-perez-esquivel-el-dia-que-uno-deja-de-sonreirle-a-la-vida-es-que-uno-ha-sido-vencido.html

"Shortages have occurred regularly since at least the early 2000s, when national tracking began. Hundreds of drugs, in every major therapeutic category, have been unavailable for some period. The average drug shortage lasts about 1.5 years"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/opinion/drug-shortages-pharmaceuticals.html

"A recent Human Rights Watch report says settler violence in the occupied West Bank has doubled since the 7 October attacks. Photographer David Lombeida stayed with Palestinian families facing threats and abuse from settlers encroaching on their land"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/west-bank-settler-violence-a-photo-essay