Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Here, by studying 98 tissues from 27 deceased transplant organ donors we demonstrate that despite representing less than 5% of circulating Tregs, fully functional, thymically derived CD8+FOXP3+ Tregs are highly enriched in human tissues particularly in non-lymphoid tissues and bone marrow, where they reside as CD25lo/-CD8+CD69+CD103+TLR9+HELIOS+FOXP3+ Tregs."
#Preprint #Immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.24.573232v1

"In Ireland, seeking work has often meant moving to England. The early songs of the Pogues documented what awaited there in the early 1980s — a time when it was, to put it mildly, challenging to be Irish in London. Irish people had been portrayed variously as buffoons, insurrectionists and animals in the British media since Victorian times, and ethnic hate and discrimination were prevalent well into the 1980s. The conflation of all Irish with the Irish Republican Army led to miscarriages of justice like the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six and the Maguire Seven, who were wrongly imprisoned for I.R.A. bombings in the 1970s."
Shane MacGowan, right, and Spider Stacy of the Pogues in 1987.
Photo Credit: Stephen Parker/Alamy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/opinion/fairytale-new-york-the-pogues.html

“Mortality and hospitalisation rates [for JN. 1] are not the explosive rates we saw during the Delta wave, but we’re definitely seeing an increase,” said Malvestutto. He said a jump in infections was also to be expected with the return of a regular flu season and the ongoing respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, at a time of year when crowds gather indoors.'

https://www.ft.com/content/7d4b3629-3d0c-45bc-8aa8-eb88ab9b4ce9

'It involves a debut author with a lot of buzz, lies, clumsy alibis, “review bombing,” a long and sordid confession — and, of course, Goodreads. Because whenever there is a meltdown in publishing, Goodreads, the Amazon-owned site that bills itself as “the largest site for readers and book recommendations,” is reliably at the center of it.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/opinion/goodreads-books-reviews.html

The gift that keeps on giving:

"Os governos que saíram vencedores da II Guerra Mundial não deram de imediato atenção à ideia de criar uma carta de direitos para a Humanidade, interessados que estavam em discutir esferas de influência e em arquitetar a Carta das Nações Unidas de maneira a garantir os seus poderes de veto"

https://leitor.expresso.pt/semanario/semanario2669/html/revista-e/fisga/humanizar-os-direitos-humanos

'Measles cases continued to pop up here and there in the densely populated city in 1989 and 1990 — as is common with highly contagious infectious diseases. But measles never managed to get a firm grip on any particular neighborhood or community in that two-year period, in part because the vaccination rate among the overall population was reasonably good. That all changed once the illness made its way to the Faith Tabernacle school.'

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/03/20/philadelphia-measles-outbreak-1991/

Well, I don't like them. They wet their nests.

"Huxley wrote extensively for popular audiences, frequently appeared on radio and television and even directed an Oscar-winning wildlife film, The Private Life of the Gannets."

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb245780/325883/Science-communication-in-experimental-biology

"La respuesta oficial ha sido la extorsión descarada a los más pobres: a aquellos que no estén de acuerdo con los cambios y decidan salir a la calle se les amenazó con quitarles la ayuda de la que dependen, en muchos casos, para comer."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2023-12-24/el-desguace-argentino.html

Jangada de pedra 2023.

@garyackerman If only Albert King were still around to put this to song.