Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Your Car, My Breath”

Quite a powerful picture 👇👇

By Marta Frej

"The fact that this core group of doctors has been spreading misinformation completely unopposed from March of 2020 up until today is a very significant finding and truly representative of the reality of what is happening in American medicine today" https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/105898?xid=nl_mostcommented_2023-08-18&mh=992b1bab61fd6c2110a21741b08e03f3

PLEKHS1 drives PI3Ks and remodels pathway homeostasis in PTEN-null prostate https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00558-0?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/19/therapeutic-potential-hallucinogens-risky-overhyped-lsd-mdma-psilocybin-work

It's not someone else's problem.

Climate refugees. Canadian
Climate refugees. Hawaii.

#climatecrisis

Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism.

It is possible to be black and Dutch, or for a person of Moroccan descent to be unequivocally French. But is it possible to be non-white and to think of oneself as “European”?

Might eight decades of EU integration accidentally foment a form of ugly, pan-continental bigotry?

A new book decries the continent’s subtler form of chauvinism.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/17/having-shaken-off-nationalism-europe-risks-civilisationalism

#Europe #Identity #Chauvinism #Ethnicity #Whiteness

📚🌠 My blog series on early mechanical calculators: Napier's Bones a marvel in logarithms: http://rdearman.org/blog_2023.html#orgc142ffb

This Mayo Clinic article sums it up well about why people believe #pseudoscience. They aren't unintelligent, maybe just out of hope they can find relief.

"It's frustrating to have persistent symptoms your doctor can't readily explain. But accepting a medically unrecognized diagnosis from an unqualified practitioner may leave the real cause — such as depression or fibromyalgia — undiagnosed, while it continues to take its toll."

#bjj #wellness #science #supplements #alternativemedicine

Another one bites the dust??
RNA has been implicated in the recruitment of chromatin modifiers...
Our results point to substantial limitations in using RNase A treatment for mapping RNA-dependent chromatin occupancy and invalidate conclusions that were previously established for PRC2 based on this assay.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.16.553488v1

"It just confirms that climate change is the biggest threat to our planet, to humankind, and will remain so for the next decades and we do need to do everything we can to mitigate the effects."
https://news.sky.com/story/wildfires-burn-in-tenerife-canada-and-portugal-amid-warning-of-alarming-speed-of-climate-change-12941036?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-08-18&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+17+08+2023

Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities.

Figure 5 from Amano et
al. (2023) "The manifold costs of being a non-native
English speaker in science." PLoS Bio, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.
pbio.3002184

Or, if you prefer a more popular summary, see https://theconversation.com/non-native-english-speaking-scientists-work-much-harder-just-to-keep-up-global-research-reveals-208750

#academia #AcademicChatter

Thacker Pass and the Ugly Tradition of Extraction Without Indigenous Permission
By Tokata Iron Eyes

Peehee mu'huh (or Thacker Pass, as it’s known in English), a sensitive wilderness area located in what is now called Humboldt County, Nevada, sits on the ancestral homelands of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples. Right now, these lands are threatened by a lithium mining project being developed by a company called Lithium Nevada, a subsidiary of Lithium Americas Corp.

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The lifecycle of a peanut is absolutely nuts and yet you can hardly find anything about it. The peanut flower lowers itself down, digs deep into the ground, then becomes the fruit peanut that we know. It's not a root! It would make a killer time lapse.

@colehaddon
“Just when you learn how to do it, you're too old. Except in your dreams."
this notion is also familiar among experimental molecular biologists

@cyrilpedia lol her "best books" is every single damn one of them

New evidence in mice suggests that cells expressing the transcription factor FOXC2 may form a reservoir of quiescent stem cells that contributes to sperm formation. https://elifesciences.org/articles/90747?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Sticker seen in New Orleans, Louisiana

I loved the description of the K-T Boundary as a "great ecological cast change"

'We can’t help but draw our own history to this specific moment, the dawn of the Age of Mammals, when fuzzy beasts could finally flourish. Dominant dinosaurs suffered a stroke of cosmic bad fortune, and our mammalian kin inherited a planet where they would no longer have to fear death in reptilian jaws. The image is of a great ecological cast change, different players continuing the evolutionary story. It’s a very appealing distortion.'