Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#BBCNews - Big firm #bosses ' #pay rose 16% as workers squeezed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66574218

Time lapse of today's #Sun. A small flare in AR 3403 at the top-right is nicely positioned to extend across the limb. Also a loopy filament in AR 3404 dissolves. Covers 6 hours of real time. 250 x 1800 x 1 ms Ha < 0.7 Å in Lunt 40 at f/10.

''Tudo começou em Maio, com uma notícia do El Economista que revelava a intenção da Renfe de entrar no território português no eixo La Coruña-Santiago de Compostela-Vigo-Porto-Lisboa. Depois, em Julho, um comunicado oficial da operadora pública espanhola anunciava um “novo serviço internacional transfronteiriço” entre Plasencia e Évora.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/21/economia/noticia/expansao-espanhola-renfe-portugal-coloca-pressao-cp-2060594

'Mice provide a great model system for studying the link between thermoregulation and feeding because, when living in a 4 °C environment as opposed to one at room temperature, they can double their food intake'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02384-0

'A better way to understand the EU is an expression of regionalism – which is analogous to nationalism, rather than the opposite of it, as many “pro-Europeans” imagine it to be. Thinking of the EU in terms of regionalism rather than cosmopolitanism also allows us to understand more clearly the tensions within the European project.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/the-eurocentric-fallacy-the-myths-that-underpin-european-identity

The Union Solidarity Coalition has been formed by WGA members to start helping those in other unions affected by the strike. Look this over and pass it on...

https://www.tusctogether.com/

If you are working with insects and need histological techniques have a look at this great new book. Benjamin Weiss, technician and histology expert in the Department of Insect Symbiosis published the book based on his many years of experience in the field!
https://www.shaker.de/de/content/catalogue/index.asp?lang=de&ID=8&ISBN=978-3-8440-9182-3

Patricia Fara in fine form
Glory or Gravity?
John Hutchinson and Isaac Newton were both devout scholars who believed that the natural world and God were inextricably linked. The similarities ended there.
#HistoryOfPhysics
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/glory-or-gravity

In today’s #Covid#mythbuster @trishgreenhalgh tackles the myth that masks don’t work against Covid (spoiler they do!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi_EV4QB3Io&t=1s

“We should always be sceptical but this might be different,” said Dr Kyle Simmons of Oklahoma State University, who is also looking at whether semaglutide could help people with alcohol use disorder. “And the reason why is because it gets at biological pathways that are so central to our survival.”

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/21/scientists-hope-weight-loss-drugs-treat-addiction-dementia-ozempic-wegovy

'Selective orthosteric inhibition of kinases has been challenging due to the conserved active site architecture of kinases and emergence of resistance mutants. Simultaneous inhibition of distant orthosteric and allosteric sites, which we refer to as “double-drugging”, has recently been shown to be effective in overcoming drug resistance.'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304611120

'Su proyecto de doctorado consistía en visualizar y analizar sus cromosomas, una tarea que implicaba la recolección y preparación de muestras derivadas de los testículos de los machos. Durante este proceso, sin embargo, se enfrentó con un problema curioso: cuando realizaba la disección de algunos topos que reconocía como machos y los analizaba en el laboratorio, resultaban ser genéticamente hembras; es decir, sus cromosomas sexuales eran XX (hembra) y no XY (macho).'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-08-21/el-extraordinario-caso-de-los-feroces-topos-hembra-con-genitales-testiculares.html

FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships Programme
Deadline Oct 15

'Are you based in Europe? Are you looking for the next step in your career? Apply for the FENS/IBRO-PERC Exchange Fellowships and stay for three months in another European lab.'
#neuroscience

https://www.fens.org/careers/grants-and-stipends/grant/fens-ibro-perc-exchange-fellowships

Happy Monday again, #ScienceMastodon! The first Research Highlight from JCS Issue 16 features a paper from Toshiyuki Oda and colleagues at the Universities of Yamanashi and Tokyo, using the unicellular algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to break down roles of tubulin modifications in ciliary/flagellar motility. #CellBiology #microtubules #flagellates

Roles of ciliary tubulin PTMs in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/16/e136_e1601/325932/Roles-of-ciliary-tubulin-PTMs-in-Chlamydomonas

Do you think that using the term “evolutionary rate” for the ratio dN/dS is accurate or misleading?

#MolecularEvolution
#EvolutionaryBiology
#Evolution