Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Royal Society's Proceedings B (biol sci) journal is recruiting data editors for the editorial board, to begin in 2024. See https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/about#question5

Tax billionaires. No one needs this level of wealth. Vote Blue

'Alzheimer’s disease and related tauopathies: disorders of disrupted neuronal identity'

by Bess Frost

https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(23)00166-2

Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Faculty Member Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Moffitt Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/tenure-track-assistant-associate-faculty-member-department-of-biostatistics-bioinformatics/?feed_id=56252

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #Bioinformatician #F...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/tenure-track-assistant-associate-faculty-member-department-of-biostatistics-bioinformatics/?feed_id=56252

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

127,000 #NewYork Workers Have Been Victims of #WageTheft

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An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York #restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.

#Theft #Jobs #Wages #Working #Labor #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #Employers #Employees #Crime #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/thousands-of-new-york-workers-have-been-victims-of-wage-theft?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The U.S. House appropriations bill contains language that would block the implementation of the Nelson Memo, which ensures immediate, free access to taxpayer-funded research. 🔓

If you are a US taxpayer, help us to oppose those changes and support the removal of Sec. 552.

Support #taxpayeraccess to research: write or call Congress or simply post on social media.

More guidelines below 👇
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(our new manuscript) Uruguay experienced its first Chikungunya virus outbreak in 2023, resulting in a significant burden to its healthcare system. We conducted analysis based on real-time genomic surveillance (30 novel whole genomes) to offer timely insights into recent local transmission dynamics and eco-epidemiological factors behind its emergence and spread in the country.

https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.08.17.23294156v1

A smart survey from @Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. By @myriam_vidalv Repost by @laurahelmuth
See you on Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, etc.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

There are 2 new publications today on Covid follow-up at 2 years that shed light on #LongCovid, but there are still many known unknowns, reviewed here

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-term-long-covid

'The time-honoured paradigm in the theory of virulence evolution assumes a positive relation between infectivity and harmfulness. However, the aetiology of respiratory diseases yields a negative relation, with diseases of the lower respiratory tract being less infective and more harmful. '

https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpad145/7244784?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'Lifespan reduction was also observed when Atg1 or Atg18 was knocked down in adult fly enteroblasts and midgut stem cells. Over-expression of wild type Atg1 in adult fly muscle or adipocytes reduces lifespan and causes accumulation of high levels of ubiquitinated protein aggregates in muscles'

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/genetics/iyad154/7245786?redirectedFrom=fulltext

'I was drawn to #neuroscience for the same reasons that I was drawn to writing. I wanted to learn about consciousness; I hoped that my studies would lead to a deeper understanding of my own inner life and others’. I hoped that memorizing the molecular weight of loneliness might save me from it.'
cc @NicoleCRust @schoppik

https://lithub.com/the-molecular-weight-of-loneliness-on-writing-fiction-influenced-by-neuroscience/

'In fact, it was. I recently obtained and analyzed a dataset used by Meta to train LLaMA. Its contents more than justify a fundamental aspect of the authors’ allegations: Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by AI is written with stolen words.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/

'Enquanto isso, como em 1992, vamos dizendo: “Eu não sou racista, mas não escolheria uma casa numa zona habitada fundamentalmente por indivíduos de outra raça”, como afirmaram mais de metade dos inquiridos (58,4%) na sondagem do PÚBLICO.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/21/sociedade/cronica/racistas-2060669

Having to explain what #devbio is to everyone you meet outside of the field can feel like a chore but, in my latest post for the @the_node, I propose that this small gesture could have a big impact.

https://thenode.biologists.com/i-am-a-developmental-biologist/discussion/