Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Some contrarians say that it doesn’t matter, the source of the virus. What matters, they say, is how we cope with the catastrophe it has brought, the illness and death it continues to cause. Those contrarians are wrong. It does matter. Research priorities, pandemic preparedness around the world, health policies and public opinion toward science itself will be lastingly affected by the answer to the origin question — if we ever get a definitive answer."

#covid #Covid19

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/magazine/covid-start.html

Washington2

“I was forty-five years old and tired of being an artist. Besides, I owed $20,000 to relatives, finance companies, banks, and assorted bookmakers and shylocks. It was really time to grow up and sell out, as Lenny Bruce once advised.”
Mario Puzo (in Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli)
#Books #Book #writer #reader #bookshelf #bookstodon

'On July 7, a Tulsa County district judge dismissed a recent lawsuit brought by three living survivors of the 1921 attack: Viola Fletcher, 109; Lessie Benningfield Randle, 108; and Hughes Van Ellis, 102. Their attorneys argued that the City of Tulsa and other government entities were directly involved in the decimation of Greenwood. Police officers deputized members of the white mob, witnesses reported seeing officers taking part in the destruction, and Tulsa’s mayor at the time, T.D. Evans, wrongly blamed a “negro uprising” for the destruction.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/opinion/tulsa-race-massacre-reparations.html

'Here, we used a human tonsil organoid platform to elucidate the cellular dynamics of Ag-reactive B and T cells in primary human tonsils as they responded to IIV, LAIV, and #influenza viruses. Tonsil organoids are a useful system for tracking human adaptive immunity and can recapitulate numerous aspects of the developing B and T cell response'
#Immunology

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00276-5

'In Disputed Inheritance, historian of science Gregory Radick provides a scholarly, detailed and perceptive analysis of why Mendelian genetics has long dominated our approach to understanding inheritance, despite valiant attempts to propose alternatives. The answer lies in fierce competition between two scientists in the early days of the field.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02310-4

Lab-based PhD will be testing as well

"Four years of self-directed study, especially in a non-laboratory based, solo subject such as economics, will test your reserves of internal motivation."

https://www.ft.com/content/199d70aa-3090-4c6f-9dd5-0b4940e54234

'Marketers have been using scientific-sounding buzzwords to sell products for centuries. But it’s becoming more common, said Timothy Caulfield, a research chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. Mr. Caulfield coined the term “scienceploitation” to describe how brands borrow language from emerging areas of science to market unproven products.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/well/live/wellness-products-false-claims.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Well