Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Sometimes We Can Have Nice Things: Our 10 Favorite Feel-Good Stories of 2023 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sometimes-we-can-have-nice-things-our-10-favorite-feel-good-stories-of-2023/

"The most important challenge is that of fairness or “linguistic justice”. A common language is a bit like a telephone network: the more people know a language, the more useful it becomes to communicate. The question of fairness arises because individuals face very different costs to access the network and are on an unequal footing when using it. Those who learn English as a second language incur learning costs, while native speakers can communicate with all network members without incurring such costs. It’s like getting the latest smartphone model and sim card with unlimited data for free."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/27/english-world-power-language-linguistic-justice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Saving the African penguin from climate change and overfishing

A hatchery and protected sanctuary in South Africa is boosting penguin numbers.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/saving-the-african-penguin-from-climate-change-and-overfishing/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"In the present study, we show that adult Drosophila melanogaster fed high-sugar diets became more susceptible to infection by the Gram-negative bacteria Providencia rettgeri and Serratia marcescens, although diet had no significant effect on infection by Gram-positive bacteria Enterococcus faecalis or Lactococcus lactis."
#Preprint #Immunity #Metabolism #InnateImmunity #Drosophila

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.07.570705v2

Researchers find large #diversity of #protists in the #Parabasalia phylum in both mice and humans.

#microbiome

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-large-diversity-protists-parabasalia-phylum.html

Who wants to tell him? 🙄

Lots of covid news right now:

–Huge US surge: covid ER visits highest in infants, older adults, kids; Northeast near worst Omicron levels

–Japan study warns of covid ‘heart failure pandemic’

–JetBlue tells infected passenger to fly

–Bernie Sanders has covid

More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-95419817

#Covid #LongCovid #Covidisntover #BernieSanders #CDC #JetBlue #NHS #MaskUp #CovidChristmas #CorsiRosenthalBox

During the next three decades, some risky growth regions — like Miami — could pass points where they become climate abandonment zones, as sea levels increase and the threat of flooding goes up as well, data suggests. https://t.co/SrWrB9AKYP

Online now! Bivalent inhibitors of the BTB E3 ligase KEAP1 enable instant NRF2 activation to suppress acute inflammatory response https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(23)00435-X?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #chembiol

There is an interesting article on the correspondence between Einstein and Levi-Civita:

Einstein the Stubborn: Correspondence between Einstein and Levi-Civita
By Galina Weinstein

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4305

via @arXivLabs

#science #mathematics #physics

"The bottom line is that the abrupt rise in digital interaction following the arrival of the pandemic made #knowledgework more tedious and exhausting, helping to fuel the waves of disruption that have followed.
We need to get serious about reducing digital communication—not just small tweaks to corporate norms but significant reductions, driven by major policy changes."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/an-exhausting-year-in-and-out-of-the-office

Feedback-based motor control can guide #plasticity and drive rapid #learning –#preprint by Feulner et al. (2022)

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience #RNN

Say you become aware of or read articles on a set of computational #neuroscience approaches or ideas that might make a nice match with your experimental approaches and ideas. A collaboration might be in order. Does one contact the first author (who may be establishing their independent group) or the lab head first or both at once or what? What's the collegially appropriate path to initiating the conversation that leads to new collaborative work?