Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'It may not arrive for many decades but with climate change, new global ecological conditions, hyper-mobility and ever denser human and animal populations, another great pandemic is inevitable.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/04/deadly-pandemic-inevitable-avoid

'Quem frequenta redes sociais também está familiarizado com o uso de linguagem violenta e agressiva por parte dos utilizadores que são simpatizantes do Chega. Verificamos que muitos deles são polícias.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/04/opiniao/opiniao/arquivar-racismo-policias-baixo-tapete-2055676

Great article in Nature on overcoming the sense of failure in research. #science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02168-6

"Ryan also emphasized how the students’ relationships with failure would evolve over time. “He said that the time it takes for you to recover from a failure will shorten over time, and he couldn’t be more right,” says Abebayehu."

Got some down time coming up and looking for books to read or pods to listen to? @STAT's summer reading (and listening) list has some great suggestions. https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/05/summer-book-podcast-list-beach-reads-2023/

📢 ATTENTION #PlantSci Community 🌱 🌾 🌽 📢

@PeerCommunityIn seeks to initiate a new "PCI Plant Sciences" to redefine #PeerReview & 💎 #OpenAccess in the field!

Sign up to contribute to support a transparent, equitable & inclusive publishing ecology: https://t.co/RkLvYYFrCj

Our latest issue is now online: www.cell.com/molecular-cell/current

Following from some recent discussion, who wants to give this a try:

A hashtag mobilization for drawing attention to interesting #neuro or #cog discussions on Mastodon. Say, #EmergentNeuroEvent (open to other suggestions!).

How it'd work:
1) Click on and select to follow the hashtag.

2) See a neuro or cog discussion getting active? Post a reply to it with the hashtag!

3) The reply will appear in TL of all following the hashtag.

4) Option: Link to the event discussion on other platforms.

My view at this point, 3.5 years into the pandemic, is that we're on our own with no guidance or support from leaders or public health, minimal information to make decisions, and surrounded by folks who have decided that no further precautions are needed.

People who are still COVID aware are tired. Very tired. If they have medical vulnerabilities or long COVID, that's amplified massively. Many have no choice but to take every possible precaution without exception. They are justifiably angry at being abandoned.

COVID aware parents are exhausted and torn, trying to keep their kids safe while also worrying about their mental health, social development, friendships, experiences, education, and opportunities for joy.

People dealing with other health issues are facing unsafe healthcare settings and delays in getting treatment.

Healthcare workers, teachers, and essential workers have been ground down, burned out, and fed to the viral wolves.

We have been given no choice but to make difficult choices. We have limited information on which to base our decisions. We are among the very few even trying anymore.

The only way forward that I see is to push for structural improvements to make shared spaces safer and more inclusive. Clean indoor air, monitoring wastwater, and genomic surveillance have to be major priorities. Voluntary masking and variant-chasing vaccines won't save us.

I also think that we have to get past all-or-nothingism. Masking 100% of the time indoors is better than 75% is better than 50% is vastly better than 0%.

People need to find balance in order to continue being among the "holdouts" (thanks, media).

Everyone is dealing with things the rest of us don't see. People who are doing their best in an impossible situation deserve grace, empathy, and support. Many folks are doing things I am not comfortable doing, but if they're still making an effort in other ways, I'm grateful.

I recognize that some folks do not have the health situation or other privilege to ease up. I want very much for them to have support and for their input to drive our public health policies and investments moving forward.

There are others who are fortunate to be able to make some decisions and legitimately need to recharge and reconnect in order to continue running this forced marathon and to be able to keep pushing for the major change that will improve conditions for everyone.

In short, this all sucks for all of us in different ways. Anyone who is still doing their best at this point gets a ton of respect from me. Please keep being awesome, and do what you need to do as safely as possible in order to make your awesomeness sustainable.

“You, boy, what social media website am I posting from?”

It’s time to vote for your favourite image in our 2023 image competition! We were delighted to receive so many wonderful entries & are excited that we will be highlighting many of the researchers in our ‘Featured image’ series over the coming weeks.
Vote here: https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/07/04/focalplane-image-competition-vote-for-your-favourite/

Comparing and contrasting app privacy policies for Threads, Bluesky, Twitter and Mastodon:

New #mpox data from UKHSA. In 2023, the UK has confirmed 29 new cases of mpox — 14 infected in the UK, 12 abroad & 3 yet to be classified.
This is the post-2022 reality of mpox. The virus' global footprint is much, much larger.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeypox-outbreak-epidemiological-overview/mpox-monkeypox-outbreak-epidemiological-overview-6-july-2023

Ynes Mexia was born in 1870 & became one of the most successful botanists in the world.

At a time when most people felt women couldn't travel alone, she did - A woman of color in her 50s & 60s. Mexia traveled the Americas for 13 years, collecting >145,000 #plants & discovering >50 new species.

She was a fierce conservationist & early pioneer fighting to preserve the redwood forests of California. She also advocated for Indigenous rights. https://www.nps.gov/people/ynes-mexia.htm #HistoryRemix #science #history

'The second most radical option would be for the Ivy League to abolish what is called “ALDC” — athletics, legacy, dean’s list and children of faculty and staff. Forty-three per cent of Harvard’s intake come from one of these groups. The first, athletics, includes sports that can only be learned by the privileged, such as lacrosse, sailing and rowing.'

https://www.ft.com/content/955ab1bb-f3d6-48a6-bba4-3c59fa5e47bd

@cyrilpedia
brooklyn – to be honest, I actually prefer by far 'istanbul twilight' by the brooklyn funk essentials (and not the least the video!)
https://youtu.be/HPBXAHSOsos