Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🚨Pre-print alert 🚨Yes that’s right, we’re publishing not one, but two, pre-prints! Here we use the *electrophysiology data* from the Brain Wide Map as well as *widefield imaging data* to investigate the question “Where in the brain is prior knowledge represented?” Recordings in 267 brain regions from 121 mice (1/8)
#neuroscience
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.04.547684v1

@bethsawin
@cyrilpedia

- Today was the warmest day on earth in 125,000 years.

- Today was the day with the most planes in the air at one time ever in history.

?? and we're building a HUGE airport in Lisbon to receive 50 million people/year?

Research Staff Assistant

Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University

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#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
New York City #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-staff-assistant-32/?feed_id=49391

Cognitive dissonance is two headlines days apart:

Today was the warmest day on earth in 125,000 years.

Today was the day with the most planes in the air at one time ever in history.

@cyrilpedia this article is great. I will definitely remember the term “VC QAnon”

An entire colony of Temnothorax longispinosis ants fits neatly into a little crevice between stones. New York.

#Ants #Entomology #Insects #Temnothorax

'While CCR7 is known to promote thymocyte medullary entry and negative selection, our previous studies implicate CCR4 in these processes, raising the question of whether CCR4 and CCR7 play distinct or redundant roles in central tolerance.'

#Immunology #Thymus #Tcells

https://elifesciences.org/articles/80443

'The second challenge is to demonstrate to the Brazilian population that investing in science and innovation will lead to discoveries and new knowledge that will improve people’s lives and address many of the challenges facing society today.'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/90533?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

'The drawing was a page from Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, and I had been invited to witness the painstaking process of its conservation. One morning last winter, I descended to the conservators’ laboratory, which occupies a room just outside the steel-and-glass doorway to the Ambrosiana’s gleaming vault. At the bottom of the stairs, I was stopped by an attendant, who took a coffee cup from my hands and placed it out of harm’s way.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/07/biblioteca-ambrosiana-milan-art-da-vinci-drawings/674625/

'US drugmaker Moderna has struck a deal to make messenger RNA drugs for use in China, despite the tensions between Washington and Beijing.'

https://www.ft.com/content/a9e9bc51-34a9-455c-a7ae-7b9f8c4cb15a

'What seems to attract some technology types to R.F.K. Jr. is his contrarianism — his disregard for conventional wisdom and expert opinion. So before I get into the tech-bro specific aspects of this weird political moment, let me say a few things about being contrarian.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html

You’ve heard, of course, that the global average temperature has set a new record high numerous times during the past week. But we’re not breaking those old records by just a little bit. The Earth has a very bad fever and the temperature is soaring.

🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Mainstream politicians thought adopting far-right policies would keep the far right away from power.

But beating people at borders, sending them to torture, letting kids drown en masse - all Europe’s immorality & illegality - it’s only fed the bloodlust at the core of far-right extremism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/world/europe/netherlands-refugees-government-collapse.html

#Brazil: #Amazon #deforestation drops 34% in first six months under #Lula. “Government data shows marked reduction against same period last year, reversing trend of destruction during #Bolsonaro reign | Brazil | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/brazil-amazon-deforestation-lula

I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cars in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.

"In the absence of Tgfbr1, the pericloacal mesoderm generates an extra pair of hindlimbs at the expense of the external genitalia"

from Moises Mallo's lab

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.07.548120v1

#StarTrek