1.17 million Americans died from the covid disinformation campaigns funded by Republican billionaire donors.
How many billions will die because they thwarted climate action and condemned the planet to an uninhabitable fate?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen
"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world . . . a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing."
I reviewed the Bird & Sherwin biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2005:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2005/04/10/fallout/cf4054f0-92d1-4d59-bf13-0b0701dcdf12/
Free speech Elon is at it again - X threatens to sue non-profit The Center for Countering Digital Hate, in a blatant attempt to shut them up. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html
Mosquitoes that carry West Nile are becoming resistant to insecticides, CDC says
NBC News got rare access to the federal health agency's insect lab in Colorado where scientists study the spread of mosquitoes and the illnesses they carry.
"At CDC's insect lab located in Fort Collins, Colorado — home to tens of thousands of mosquitoes — Connelly's team has found that Culex mosquitoes are living longer when they're exposed to insecticides."
RT @: Always good to see new #massspec tools available.Dear #proteomicscommunity and #TeamMassSpec, I am happy to share HowDirty, an R package that facilitates evaluating and reporting molecular contaminants in LC-MS experiments.
https://authorea.com/users/643346/articles/656759-howdirty-an-r-package-to-evaluate-molecular-contaminants-in-lc-ms-experiments…
"Un nuevo registro realizado por el Grupo Español de Seguridad Obstétrica (GESO), una sociedad científica formada por ginecólogos, anestesistas y matronas, ha revelado ahora que los datos oficiales adolecen de una infranotificación importante y que la mortalidad materna en 2021 —de 3,26 según el INE— fue en realidad cuatro veces mayor: 13,76 fallecimientos por cada 100.000 partos."
When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.
This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans
“…we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner.” https://counterhate.com/blog/letters-from-the-lawyers-musk-threatens-ccdh-with-brazen-attempt-to-silence-honest-criticism/
On this day in 1918: Paul D Boyer was born. He won the 1997 #NobelPrize for elucidating enzymatic mechanism of ATP synthesis #ThisDayInBiotech
'The genetically induced parthenogenetic Drosophila melanogaster eggs exhibit de novo centrosome formation, fusion of the meiotic products, and the onset of development to generate predominantly triploid offspring. Thus, we demonstrate a genetic basis for sporadic facultative parthenogenesis in an animal.'
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00913-2
Finding academic folks on Mastodon: a list of lists by @hendrikerz
EMBO has put out a digest of an episode of the #EMBOPodcast I produced with Fiona Watt & Maria Leptin - it includes portions that did not make the final audio cut. Read it on their site & 🎧to the original episode👇
https://www.embo.org/podcasts/i-learned-early-on-that-you-can-do-a-lot-with-a-small-amount-of-money/
PhD positions in Population Genetics
Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/vienna-graduate-school-of-population-genetics-27778-phd-positions-in-population-genetics-5/?feed_id=52862
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #popgen #genetics #evolution #vienna #bioinformatics
Vienna #Austria #PhDSt...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/vienna-graduate-school-of-population-genetics-27778-phd-positions-in-population-genetics-5/?feed_id=52862
@Talia @sharoz We're doing a review of research misconduct procedures in the UK, aiming to tease out tensions and suggest solutions: https://ukrio.org/our-work/ukrio-research-misconduct-review-2023/
UK institutions should for now follow these guidelines: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/topics/research-and-innovation/concordat-support-research-integrity
We have this model procedure, updated this year: https://ukrio.org/ukrio-resources/publications/misconduct-investigation-procedure/
Anyone with concerns about research linked to the UK can get our free advice: https://ukrio.org/our-work/get-advice-from-ukrio/
#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #UKuniversities
Could you share your best-known example of reproducible and correctly annotated #rstats code that you'd like everybody to use as a template when publishing their own code alongside the paper? My best attempt so far can be found here: https://zenodo.org/record/7687077
The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/greece-wildfires-climate-crisis-developed-world?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#NesrineMalik
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee
#FloridaUniversities #BrainDrain #AcademicsFlee #Desantis #HigherEducation #FloridaEducation #Politics #News
'Dr. Dunsworth has become a strong critic of the obstetrical dilemma, arguing that the timing of childbirth is determined by the size of babies’ bodies, not their heads. The birthing process begins when a fetus demands more energy than a mother’s body can provide, she proposes. “We’re giving birth to massive babies,” she said.'
I have closed Twitter and deleted the app from my phone. Now I need recommendations on who to follow here. I am interested in #climate, #energy, #airquality, #sustainabledevelopment
Faltam casas para quem constrói casas. Não há tempo para formar pessoas na área da construção civil. Os negócios não avançam porque não há casas.
Quem acha que este é um problema com um causa única e que se resolve com meia dúzia de medidas avulsas para inglês ver... ...está enganado.
Na altura da troika destruímos boa parte da industria de construção civil (muita gente emigrou permanentemente). Nunca recuperamos.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com