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“I kept waiting for the cavalry to come, and it really hasn’t, even today,” Dr. Grabowski said. “At no time during the pandemic did we prioritize nursing homes.” More than 167,000 residents have died, Medicare reported this month, along with at least 3,100 staff members.'

nytimes.com/2023/08/19/health/

Good ol' "garbage in/garbage out"

'A key aspect of the aforementioned modeling approaches is that the accuracy of a model's translation to in vivo biology relies on the underlying data used as input in the model.'

cell.com/trends/immunology/ful

"I am honored to be a banned book whenever it happens, because I look at the history of books that have been banned; the history of who bans them. I will never be on the side of the people who ban the books. I'm on the other side. I will always be on the side of the libraries."
@neilhimself

ilovelibraries.org/article/i-w

“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst & uncertainty.”

That survey with only a 5% response rate went viral & got me wondering about other evidence & how the #ScienceTwitter #MastodonMigration was panning out.

So I updated my study tracker & wrote a new post @PLOS : absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/

tl;dr There's been a big recent surge here; the future of #ScienceMastodon looks bright; ScienceX is materially diminished tho the network is still there.

#Science #SciComm

The Alexander Laboratory at UCSB is hiring a Jr. Specialist. Apply by 8/1/23 at:
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02565
UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

'In different ways, political philosophers, economists and advertising executives have pointed out how our economic system capitalizes on the insecurities it produces, which it then prods and perpetuates, making us all insecure by design. Only by reckoning with how deep manufactured insecurity runs will it become possible to envision something different.'

nytimes.com/2023/08/18/opinion

In contrast to NHP economic #decisionmaking where task variables are represented in OFC goods space, this finding suggests rodent OFC has a role in action space. In line with what our lab also finds using different task and methods 🐀 #neuroscience nature.com/articles/s41593-023

Every time you shuffle a deck of cards properly, there's a high chance you've put them in an order that has never existed before in the history of the Universe.

52! = 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 combinations.

SO MUCH POWER!

'Genome sequencing has also become a critical component in the development of one of the most promising alternatives to antibiotics: bacteriophage therapy.'

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/

'Our much loved Microbe Art Contest is coming back again this year to support International Microorganism Day on 17 September 2023! Help celebrate the wondrous world of microbes by getting creative and sharing your art! '

fems-microbiology.org/microbe-

'Specific deletion of the nuclear isoform of RARα revealed an RARα isoform in the cytoplasm of T cells. Extranuclear RARα was rapidly phosphorylated upon TCR stimulation and recruited to the TCR signalosome.'

cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S10

'Teenagers are significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, a new study has shown, underscoring the broad impacts of gen Z’s relationship with social media.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a

“The next decade is going to be defined by incredibly rich people, underestimating how fucking mad the rest of us are”
- @FernieCommaAlex
There is only one way to make this happen & end corporate greed:
#VoteOutAllGOP
#VoteBlueEveryElection

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