Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Much more to the point are Heller’s interviews with students, who explain the fundamental problem quite clearly: universities do not value the humanities. This disregard is demonstrated in most universities’ built environments, real estate investments, hiring practices, staffing ratios, and unwillingness to direct resources toward the humanities even in appropriate balance with the often substantial revenue they bring in."

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/02/letter-from-an-english-department-on-the-brink/

"Tenían distintas edades y oficios; habían nacido en diferentes sitios, pero, antes de ponerse ante el pelotón de fusilamiento, todos compartían la misma preocupación: qué sería de los que iban a sobrevivirles. En sus emocionantes cartas de despedida piden a padres e hijos, esposas y maridos que sepan que no hicieron nada de lo que no pudieran estar orgullosos; que no se dejen consumir por el odio y el rencor."

https://elpais.com/espana/2023-04-15/cartas-desde-la-carcel-de-los-condenados-a-muerte-del-franquismo-aunque-este-frio-dame-un-beso.html

'This is a story about French liberty and bureaucracy. It is about different visions of the countryside and nature. It’s about fire management, fights between neighbors and Brigitte Bardot. But mostly, it is about goats.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/world/europe/france-goats-vineyards.html

This I had never heard of:

"The problem in many of these cases was the rodents, or, maybe more accurately, that researchers had pinned their hopes on them. Mice and rats, the world’s most commonly used laboratory animals—creatures whose many biological similarities to us have enabled massive leaps in the treatment of HIV, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and more—are rather useless in one very specific context: They simply can’t throw up."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/04/lab-mice-rat-rodents-vomit-drug-testing-side-effects/673714/

"One scene, when La Motta prepares for a ferocious beating by Robinson, shows him in a terrifyingly patient exaltation of anticipation of pain that, he knows, he well deserves for the pain that he has caused those closest to him. It’s a moment of conscience in torment that glows and flares only briefly, but with an intensity to burn a hole in the screen."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/revisiting-the-violence-and-style-of-martin-scorseses-raging-bull

'Hu says today that the Harvard researchers felt confident in their conclusions about yogurt largely on account of their meta-analysis, and the fact that prior clinical studies and basic science research supported the idea that probiotics improve metabolic outcomes. “For ice cream, of course, there is no prior literature,” he said.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study/673487/

'Esta enfermedad afecta a más de seis millones de personas en el mundo, la gran mayoría en América Latina, pero sigue desatendida y estigmatizada. Los expertos trabajan para detectarla desde la atención primaria y favorecer su prevención y tratamiento'

https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2023-04-14/solo-una-parte-muy-pequena-de-los-enfermos-son-identificados-y-tratados-el-desafio-de-visibilizar-el-chagas-una-patologia-desatendida-y-erradicable.html

"Although CD4+CD25+FOXP3+ regulatory T (TREG) cells have been studied in patients with COVID-19, changes in the TREG cell population have not been longitudinally examined during the course of COVID-19. In this study, we longitudinally investigated the quantitative and qualitative changes in the TREG cell population in patients with COVID-19."

#immunology #Covid19

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2200290/263615/Distinctive-Dynamics-and-Functions-of-the-CD4-CD25

A not bad cover of a Tom Waits classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOk5Rnz4J0

Cool work from Michael Fischbach & collaborators: engineering skin bacteria to express tumoral antigens induces protective T cell responses - including at distal sites (in mice).
#immunology #immunotherapy #TumorImmunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9563