Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Seeking some optimism in light of the Protocols.io news. Are there any exemplars of for-profit scientific publishing startups that retained their values and flourished following inevitable acquisition by a large publisher?

Today, we and PREreview are pleased to announce that the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) will provide us with technical and funding support to implement the COAR Notify technology. With this support, we’ll work to strengthen connections between preprint review and curation services for authors, journals and the wider scientific community. https://elifesciences.org/for-the-press/e94cf241/elife-and-prereview-to-enhance-the-publish-review-curate-ecosystem-through-adoption-of-coar-notify?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

More on this today
Once rapid home tests got big, wastewater much better for detection of Covid on the rise
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2807632

Dinosaurs and the evolution of breathing through bones https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955859

Shedding light on the dark problem of #biofilms.

#bacteria #mirobiomes

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-dark-problem-biofilms.html

AMG-1/SLRP-1 is required for #spermatogenesis in #C_elegans: Study.

#RNAP

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-amg-1slrp-required-spermatogenesis-elegans.html

Doctors who put lives at risk with covid misinformation rarely punished - The Washington Post (paywall)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/26/covid-misinformation-doctor-discipline/

'Spatial, single-cell, nuclear, and bulk RNA sequencing traced this defect back to the superior cervical ganglia (SCG), which responded to cardiac disease with accumulation of inflammatory macrophages, fibrosis, and the selective loss of pineal gland–innervating neurons.'

#immunology #Macrophage #Neuroimmunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6366

'We may not even realize when we start passing points of no return—or if we already have. “It’s kind of like stepping into a minefield,” Armstrong McKay said. “We don’t want to find out where these things are by triggering them.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/climate-change-tipping-points/674778/

Wendy Andrea Valencia-
Montoya: molecular basis of taste by touch in octopus arms? Shown in 2020 that the arms are sensory through chemotactile receptors https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.008
-> how do these genes evolve?
#SMBE2023

'Researchers whose first language is not English can spend around twice as long reading an English-language scientific journal article as native speakers. For a PhD student working on their thesis, that can mean spending up to 19 additional working days per year just reading papers.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02320-2

Portrait of one of the world's most recognizable ants, the Amazonian trap-jaw Daceton armigerum. French Guiana.

#Ants #Daceton #Insects

In the 1930s Claudette Colbert observed that censorship drove performers to extremes, recalling that in one wild love scene, she and her co-star were only permitted to put their heads together while their legs stretched in opposite directions. She admitted, “It was hard to be convincing.”

#Movies #Hollywood #Cinema #Film #Cinemastodon #ClaudetteColbert

Hello there! For a brief #introduction, we are the young researchers of the Complex Systems Society, and we strive to enable all early-stage researchers interested in complexity science to integrate into the community. We do so by offering grants, and by organizing events, such as the warm-up of the Conference on Complex Systems (picture of seemingly happy participants from Palma's edition below).

Let's hope we can bring the community together here as well 🤗

Hello, I am new here, and determined to make this my #ornithology outpost.

I am an ecologist interested in the behaviour of birds. I am particularly interested in how birds broadly communicate information - including social behaviours, visual (feathers!) and vocal signals, and the influence of the environment.
I also work on survey methods and species conservation.
#introduction

In their #JEB100 Review, Lakhiani, Shanavas & Melnattur review sleep in different animal taxa, highlighting the diversity of sleep behaviour and provide insights into sleep physiology and function.

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/14/jeb245677/324840

#comparativephysiology #zoology #biology #science