Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Lukashenko was awarded his second Ig Nobel Prize (which he shared with the leaders of eight other countries) for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can. https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2020

Os colegas do Montenegro

'Segundo o relatório, o partido “tem trabalhado para envenenar o discurso nacional com retórica racista, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-imigração e anticigana". Estou convicta de que os portugueses - os que não estão envenenados – não precisariam de que uma organização estrangeira viesse clarificar que é de cariz racista a retórica do Chega.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/28/opiniao/opiniao/relatorio-internacional-veio-lembrarnos-chega-racista-2054857

'Daily oral orforglipron, a nonpeptide GLP-1 receptor agonist, was associated with weight reduction. Adverse events reported with orforglipron were similar to those with injectable GLP-1 receptor agonists.'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2302392?query=featured_home

'How has the tech sector got away with exceptionalism for so long? Whenever the harmful effects of a new technology emerge, the loudest clamour opposes regulation, arguing that it would strangle innovation and that the engineering is too complex for legislation.'

https://www.ft.com/content/c668bf20-40ea-4eb9-8910-ab63d213a63b

'Out of about 34,000 Ph.D. recipients in science/engineering (S/E) fields awarded by US institutions in 2020, 46% (approx. 15,000) held temporary visas, a lower bound estimation of “foreign students”. Among these 15,000 recipients with temporary visas, the largest portion came from China, at 37%, three times the proportion from India, the second largest sending country'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216248120

#OTD 28 June 1873 Alexis Carrel was born. A surgeon & biologist, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. He was a leader in Vichy France's eugenics program.

A bout time

#Photography #StreetPhotography #NYC

Associate Research Scientist

Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/associate-research-scientist-17/?feed_id=48635

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
New York City #UnitedStatesUS #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/associate-research-scientist-17/?feed_id=48635

‘It’s like Groundhog Day’: The cancer drug shortage isn’t new — and neither are the solutions https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/28/cancer-drug-shortage-generics-economics-solutions/

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"We review how both TFH and TFR cells express helper and repressor factors that coordinately regulate the Ab response and how the line between these two subsets is less clear than initially thought."
#Immunology #GerminalCenter

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/211/1/15/263866/Nonbinary-Roles-for-T-Follicular-Helper-Cells-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'These data suggest that animals overexpressing folr-1 are deficient in their ability to adapt to changes in microbial metabolism, thus revealing an intriguing and non-canonical role of folate receptor in lifespan regulation.'
#Preprint #Celegans #metabolism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.26.546484v1?med=mas

'This is a vision of hell. It is also a glimpse of the future. The Institute for Economics and Peace has estimated that by the middle of the century more than a billion people will be at risk of displacement because of ecological threats.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/june/ever-harder-borders

The key words here are "locally acquired".

'In the last two months, at least five people, four in Florida and one in Texas, have been infected with malaria in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health advisory on Monday. These are the first known cases of locally acquired malaria in the country since 2003.'
#Malaria #InfectiousDisease #publichealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/health/us-malaria-mosquitoes.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

“Fascist” is not a term I use lightly, but the Silicon Valley vogue for administering performance-enhancing drugs to improve human capital is, well, fascist. My latest: https://newrepublic.com/article/173957/microdosing-silicon-valley-boss-dope-workers

Data management is always something you should plan out at the start of the project... but no one ever does ⁠
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#DataManagement #DataScience⁠
#cartoon #cartoons #comic #comics #instacomic #instacartoon ⁠
#academia #science #research ⁠
#errantscience

Gavi has approved adding a 6-in-1 vaccine to the roster of jabs it helps countries buy. There's hope this one will help in the effort to end #polio transmission & keep it gone after eradication. I wrote about this plan this last week. https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/23/polio-eradication-six-in-one-vaccine/