Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Ed Yong, who has been way too wonderful and smart and ethical for the Atlantic for a long time, just announced he's leaving, and you can get his newsletter here :) https://buttondown.email/edyong209

Our next #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane. This week we focus on preprints that use #imaging techniques to answer questions in cell and developmental biology. We hope you find the list useful and let us know if there is a preprint we need to add!
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/08/11/microscopy-preprints-applications-in-cell-and-developmental-biology-5/

#CellBiology #devbio #microscopy #preprints

This weekend is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I hope you have clear skies to see pieces of a comet raining down on Earth! Here's a great explanation of the spectacle from @badastro https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-this-weekend-in-a-stargazing-must-see/

"And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday."
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Döblin was born #OTD in 1878. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays.

Books by Alfred Döblin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35387

#books #literature

A new study foresees a 20% increase in cases of viruses like dengue, Zika and chikungunya over the next 30 years due to climate change.

Higher temperatures are already causing the diseases carried by the Aedes aegypti mosquito to spread in cooler regions like southern Brazil and southern Europe.

by Luís Patriani
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/zika-dengue-transmission-expected-to-rise-with-climate-change/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Disease #ClimateChange

James Glover, Edward Scourfield, Monica Agromayor, Juan Martin-Serrano and colleagues identify UMAD1 as a novel component of the ESCRT machinery that facilitates cytokinetic abscission.
Highlight: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/15/e136_e1503/325852/UMAD1-helps-ESCRT-machinery-sever-ties-during
Article: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/15/jcs261097/325840/UMAD1-contributes-to-ESCRT-III-dynamic-subunit
#OpenAccess

Read more about this research in the ‘First person’ interview with James Glover: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/15/jcs261498/325841/First-person-James-Glover

#CellBiology #celldivision

Scientific realism: new in print and #OpenAccess https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03080188.2022.2156150 @philosophy @philosophyofscience

Fondly remembering #StuartGordon (1947-2020), the gifted American director, screenwriter and playwright, born in Chicago #OnThisDay. The founder of his city's Organic Theater Company, he collaborated memorably on film and TV with Jeffrey Combs, Charles Band, Mick Garris, Dennis Paoli, David Mamet and even Disney, with key influences including Poe, Lovecraft, Bradbury and James Whale...

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Our preprint of the paradise fish reference genome is up: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.10.552018v1. It is the result of a fun collaboration with Shawn Burgess’ team at NHGRI, and it is also a small but important step in our quest to (re)develop paradise fish into a meaningful model species.

Em maio, questionámos a @EUHomeAffairs sobre a nova lei italiana que restringe as atividades de busca e salvamento no mar. A lei de Meloni impede que os navios façam mais do que um salvamento de cada vez e obriga os navios a atracar em portos distantes da zonas onde são precisos.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1689279391619039232

This is a great addendum in the Science magazine for replacing the Turing test for AI models with a "Weizenbaum test":

"Rather than a test of intelligence [like Turing test], a Weizenbaum test would assess the public value of AI technologies, evaluating them according to their real-world implications rather than their proponents’ claims."

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk0176

Weizenbaum's questions to make such an assessment in the Bulletin of Atomic scientists seems to be apt not just for AI, but all of technology.

#AI #HistoryOfAI #Computing #Critique #Technology #Ideology #ManVsMachine #MIT #Weizenbaum

Go big or go home

"And in June it was revealed that a scholar at Harvard Business school, Francesca Gino, was accused of having falsified research about – wait for it – honesty."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch

"Maps 12 & 15 von Willebrand Collection Vault map (12) and inset (15) (Dresden, Germany, 1919?).

(...) von Willebrand lived to the age of 97, finally expiring at a spa outside of Kaiserslautern, an obscure minor nobleman who never escaped his internal exile to the provinces. He died in the same year as the Weimar Republic, in 1933. The Margrave’s ill-advised attempt to keep up with the times led to the von Willebrand vault map’s misidentification as Degenerate Art. As a result, almost all copies were destroyed by the newly established Reich Chamber of Culture. Only the original copper plate matrix of the vault map remained untouched in the Sophienkirche annex, together with a pair of printed copies. The church was comprehensively destroyed during the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945. Incredibly, a controlled detonation of unexploded ordinance in the immediate postwar period led to the unearthing of the vault map plate and a pair of prints in pristine condition"

#print #prints #printmaking #copperprintmaking #copperprint #art #handmade #maps #cartography #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/SPAM

'At São Tomé, the modern sugar plantation was born. Large-scale sugar production had already been introduced in the Canaries and Madeira, but the São Tomé plantations were even bigger and more industrial in their highly specialized tasks for workers. Most significantly, they were the first to rely entirely on African slave labor. On São Tomé, the transformation of sugar into a mass commodity went hand in hand with the chattelization of African women and men. Here was the model for the New World.'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/africa-the-center-of-history-born-in-blackness-howard-w-french/

You can access the dispatch I wrote for Current Biology: "Neuroscience: Merging multisensory memories" with this link:https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hYPf3QW8S2R9o