Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Of course, she was correct — the scale of sexual abuse perpetrated within the Roman Catholic Church that came to light in later years was staggering. By then, O’Connor’s protest felt distant, but the damage it did to her career was permanent.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-snl-pope.html

'Notably absent from the recipe is garlic, despite its ubiquity in the cooking of the Arab world at the time. It’s not certain exactly when garlic was introduced to the dish: Nasrallah notes that there is no documentation of hummus recipes after the 14th century until the late 19th century.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/magazine/ancient-hummus-recipe.html

Huisje
#natuur #nature #naturephotography #outdoors

Here’s my (refreshed) #introduction to the #Mastodon community! 👋

I’m a medical scientist specializing in #genetics and #genetherapy for #RareDiseases. I’ve worked in the #biotechnology industry for over 6 years and I’m very passionate about the power of #Science to make the world better.

I’ll mostly be posting about interesting new ideas and breakthroughs in science, and probably a lot of other stuff I find interesting and/or funny.

My Hashtags:

#science
#sciencenews
#medicine
#genetics
#biotechnology

But also..
#puns #punny
#dogsofmastodon 🐶
#politics (but only a little..)
#lgbtq 🏳️‍🌈
#tech

So now #ElonMusk is threatening businesses if they don't buy ads from him on #Twitter or X or whatever #Elon is calling it this week. Despite the fact that it's circling the drain & people are fleeing it in hordes while it implodes. That's a bold strategy Cotton; let's see if it pays off for him. https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/elon-musk-x-twitter-advertising-checkmarks-business-model.html

On Aldous Huxley's birthday, gorgeous vintage and modern illustrations for his only children's book https://t.co/xGN1EKOwdq

Also, a detail about O’Connor's SNL appearance that I only just now learned.

The woman was hard as nails.

'Far from crazy, feathered dinosaurs have become a well-established fact, thanks largely to a trove of remarkable fossils that have been unearthed in northeast China since the mid-1990s. Now Dr. Brusatte and other paleontologists are trying to determine exactly how feathered dinosaurs achieved powered flight and became the birds that fly overhead today — an evolutionary mystery that stretches more than 150 million years.'
@Carl_Zimmer

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/science/bird-flight-evolution.html

'What to do? You’ll see many suggestions in the Nature piece. A big one is tightening up criteria for considering a published trial in reviews and meta-analyses, since these things contaminate those papers in turn. There’s also having journals ask (much) more often for anonymized trial data as part of the manuscript review process, although that means a lot more work in the editorial process. And back at the source, there’s trying to get countries with data-trust problems to alter the policies that lead to this stuff in the first place.'

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/too-many-bad-clinical-trials

If you're off on vacation soon, you can mine this episode of the #EMBOPodcast for reading tips, as Pavel Tomancak suggested some of his favorite Czech #SciFi authors

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

Doom is a privilege we can’t afford.

“Some days I think that if we lose the #climate battle, it’ll be due in no small part to this defeatism among the comfortable in the global north, while people in frontline communities continue to fight like hell for survival. Which is why fighting defeatism is also climate work.” - Rebecca Solnit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers?CMP=share_btn_tw

Fellow Drosophila researchers: FlyBase has done the thing: now at @FlyBase. Please give us a follow!

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