Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Today 25 years ago the #Spanish government sent their police to close the #Basque #newspaper #Egin. They arrested many journalists, put them in jail, and in 2009 a Spanish court concluded that no illicit activity was engaged by the newspaper and radio station Egin. However, nothing happened to anyone involved in this human rights violation, be it judges, politicians or police.

What makes certain individuals more susceptible to #disinformation? 🌐
By looking into personality traits and the inner workings of #socialmedia, @mjoanasa is workings on a tool that will audit parts of the internet to detect disinformation.
👉 https://bit.ly/3PyLUGe
@lip_pt https://t.co/pdhv6JTIrF

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1674674207840686084

Mitochondria are at least 15 °C hotter than their external environment in living cells.

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89232

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxDS65RjLU

'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.
#Book #Books #bookworm #Bookshelf #reader #bookstodon

Fantastic to see the full list of #OpenScience Fund grantees.

Lots of exciting stuff to look forward to!

https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-science-fund-2023-awarded-grants

'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01637-2

Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #ceramics #art #artgallery #handmade #stoneware #artmastodon
https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

'Some of the big technology companies, which have a poor reputation for use of personal data, are also training specialist generative AI models for the healthcare sector. Google is trialling the medical chatbot Med-PaLM 2, which provides expert advice to doctors, at the Mayo Clinic in the US. Google is rightly cautious about releasing this model more widely before its potential flaws are fixed.'

https://www.ft.com/content/d4002272-bed3-4339-ab5f-e657d29291f0

Recent Evolution of a Maternally Acting Sex-Determining Supergene in a Fly with Single-Sex Broods https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad148 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

This was a great conversation with Pavel Tomancak & @tlemberger for the EMBO Podcast.
Everything from the early days of open science to tips on classic Czech science fiction.
#EMBOPodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/who-reviews-the-reviewers/

NYU, ever the ethical beacon, had suspended her for protesting segregation.

“My having gone to Columbia was the greatest blessing that ever happened to me professionally,” she told the National Science and Technology Medals Foundation in 2016. She wasn’t sure she’d have been a National Medal of Science laureate, she said, “if New York University hadn’t decided that I was a bad girl in 1941.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/science/evelyn-m-witkin-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Obituaries

psa

#OTD 14 July 1789 Parisians stormed La Bastille prison and armory. This jump-started the Revolution as conservative nobles fled France while the French people formed their own civic organizations.