Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

For anyone new to Mastodon, or anyone who doesn't yet know: you can make keyword filters here!

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/

Is there some topic you hate seeing all the time that people don't cw? Twitter? Elon Musk? Climate change news? Republicans? Democrats? Transphobia? Filter it!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/a-quick-guide-to-filters-on-mastodon/

'In 2022, all the glittering literary prizes went to indies – not only the Booker, but its sister prize for translated fiction, the International Booker, as well as the Nobel, the Goldsmiths, the Pulitzer and Australia’s A$100,000 (£80,000) Victorian prize for literature. The last four remarkably were all won by Fitzcarraldo, the UK home of celebrated French memoirist Annie Ernaux and foremost among a wave of new small publishers punching above their weight. What’s going on?'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/16/uk-indie-publishing-mavericks-shook-up-books-booker-nobel-fitzcarraldo-sort-of-books-daunt

“Imaginemos aquilo que não temos em Portugal: uma grande biblioteca pública de dimensão europeia e internacional, aberta a toda a gente, a todas as horas, prestando o serviço público que uma grande biblioteca pública hoje deve desempenhar.”

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/25/local/noticia/lisboa-quer-biblioteca-europeia-egide-eduardo-lourenco-2058129

'One reason books haven’t been particularly disruptable might be that many of the people looking to “fix” things couldn’t actually articulate what was broken—whether through their failure to see the real problems facing the industry (namely, Amazon’s stranglehold), or their insistence that books are not particularly enjoyable as a medium.'

https://www.wired.com/story/why-generative-ai-wont-disrupt-books/

'In an uncanny anticipation of his subsequent reception history, Johannes Vermeer made one of his first appearances in the printed record in the guise of a phoenix, the mythical bird that regenerates itself from its own ashes.'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/07/20/life-made-light-johannes-vermeer/

Everything, everywhere, all at once. The floods of 2023.
My interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on THE THREE AGES OF WATER.

https://thebulletin.org/2023/07/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-the-great-floods-of-2023/#post-heading

#BookReview
#HistoryOfLogic #HistoryOfMathematics #HistoryOfComputing
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/when-is-an-algorithm-not-an-algorithm/

The struggle is real! 😵‍💫

#bookstodon #writersofmastodon #books #writingcommunity #writerslife #bookworm

Albert Watson
Sinead O’Connor

'In Rwanda, where The New York Times has named President Paul Kagame “the global elite’s favorite strongman” because of his apparently brilliant record of economic growth, the government claimed that it had decreased poverty by 6 percent from 2010 to 2014. Researchers found that the inverse was true: Poverty had actually surged by 5 to 7 percent. Fittingly, the notion that Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time was a lie; he built ornate stations and invested in train lines used by elites, but the commuting masses got left behind.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/authoritarianism-dictatorship-effectiveness-china/674820/

First post of my summer blog series on image communication in (bio/med) publications!

Today: Many papers, many images, many problems (and some first solutions).

Why we should make sure our figure are understandable.

https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/image_numbers/

RT @: We are looking for a post-doc and RA to work on an exciting project in prostate cancer investigating CAFs, ECM, spatial proteomics and more! @BevanLab @ImperialSandC Funded by @ProstateUK

http://imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/MED03982/post-doctoral-research-associate…

http://imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/MED03985/research-assistant…

Great news

"Health officials have “virtually” eliminated HIV transmission in parts of Sydney that were once the centre of the Australian Aids epidemic, raising hopes of conquering a disease that has killed more than 40mn people."

https://www.ft.com/content/53a6aa06-6270-4486-bef9-95523c9fb66f

“I want to understand how the H. naledi fossils got there. They are very important fossils, and critical to understanding human evolution,” says Jamie Hodgkins, a palaeoarchaeologist at the University of Colorado Denver, who was one of the study’s four reviewers for eLife. However, “there just wasn’t any science in the paper ultimately”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02415-w#ref-CR1

'Any sense of relief that a post-Brexit UK might resume links with Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship scientific research programme, is fizzling out. Despite a reported deal, it was revealed last week that Rishi Sunak was pushing back a decision on rejoining until after summer.'

https://www.ft.com/content/c15c9e52-7c14-4478-b231-96113beb77b3