Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Now that the Republican former Lieutenant Governor of Georgia admits that Trump is running "a Ponzi scheme of lies" with the "moral compass of an axe murderer," I wonder what it would take for my #GOP-voting relatives to admit how profoundly they fucked up? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/29/trump-moral-compass-georgia-republican-geoff-duncan

A large share (estimates range from 25% to 40%) of #COVID19 infections are nosocomial (occurring in medical facilities.) And, people who are infected in hospitals are MUCH more likely to suffer complications and have a lower rate of recovery.

Why aren't masks required in hospitals all the time? Why wait for a surge that hospitals helped create? The modern Hippocratic Oath states, “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.”

https://scrippsnews.com/stories/hospitals-bring-back-mask-mandates-in-response-to-covid-spikes/

FYI: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — both of whom accepted luxury vacations from billionaires — could rule on an upcoming Supreme Court case that would ban a federal wealth tax.

If they don’t recuse themselves, why would we expect Americans to ever trust SCOTUS again?

'Politicians have become particularly skittish about what ought to be common-sense steps to protect basic public health. The Pasteur Act, for instance, would address the antibiotic resistance crisis that threatens our entire system of medical care, but it’s been stalled in Congress for years. Funding for federal pandemic preparedness programs comes up for reauthorization in September, but its passage is in doubt.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/malria-polio-tb-prevention.html

'As climate-related disasters grow in frequency and intensity, major home insurers in some locations are concluding that no premium—or at least no premium that customers are willing to pay and state regulators are likely to permit—will cover the potential losses.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/home-insurance-costs-wildfires-floods-weather/675141/

'Acontece que um espaço de cinema (e, no caso do Monumental, de salas de cinema e de um teatro, depois da demolição do edifício original dos anos 50) só pode ser destruído — a lei define a situação com o preciosismo da “desafectação do espaço da actividade cinematográfica” — com autorização do ministro da Cultura.

Esperamos que o senhor ministro da Cultura esteja à altura dessa responsabilidade.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/29/culturaipsilon/opiniao/cinemas-portugal-falha-monumental-2061340

Not good.

'Data from Uganda showed the emergence of partial resistance to artemisinins in multiple geographic locations, with increasing prevalence and regional spread over time.'
#Malaria #PublicHealth

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211803?query=featured_home

'Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants, had been arrested, tried, convicted, and would be executed for a crime they didn’t commit. My grandfather had immigrated to the United States in 1907, the same year they did—paesani—and in the 1910s he and Vanzetti had worked together in Clinton, Massachusetts, building a railroad and living, with all the other immigrant workers, in railroad sleeping cars in a part of town known as Little Italy.'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/27/the-everyman-library/

#IDMastodon #Clinicalbiology These @ESCMID guidelines are intended for clinicians involved in diagnosis and treatment of #brainabscess in childrens and aldults
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00399-3/fulltext#%20

'Loan them out, get them back. Head to the library. Get some more. Pass them on, every book a gift, every library an inheritance, a scroll, unfurling, like a newborn’s tiny hand, opening, the child of a whole family, each of its ancestors.'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/27/the-everyman-library/

'The “pooled fund” is designed to reduce the high costs of developing new treatments. It would do so partly by increasing the number of experimental drugs being tested, raising the chances that some will succeed. It would also reduce the risks of unsuccessful new products by bringing in capital from non-profit backers who do not seek financial returns.'

https://www.ft.com/content/2f939fbd-06ee-46c5-a956-800266d5dd86

'Contrary to maternal antibodies, maternal microchimeric cells (MMc) show a high longevity, as they can persist in the offspring until adulthood. Recent evidence highlights that MMc leukocytes promote neonatal immunity against early-life infections in mice and humans.'
#immunology #MaternalFetal

Yuzen et al @emboreports

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202356829

Lots of clever ideas here for new air conditioning technologies, including ways to separate cooling from dehumidifying https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-air-conditioning-technology-could-be-the-future-of-cool/

Acting like there’s no tomorrow is a great way of ensuring that when tomorrow inevitably arrives that it will be an absolute mess…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

Assistant Professor job- Comparative Biomechanics - Integrative Biology Department:
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04087

'Genomic technologies evolve rapidly, and there is a pressing need to update genetics teaching curricula and training in medical education. Some universities8 have already started to address this gap with initiatives aimed at enhancing undergraduate medical education in genomics and recruiting medical graduates into genetics residency training programs, but more formal education programs for medical students and current clinicians are urgently needed.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02522-1

'La mayor parte de los condenados hizo carrera dentro del Ejército, alcanzando con los años altos cargos dentro del escalafón militar. Todos están en situación de retiro y transitaron el juicio en libertad. Este es un perfil de los condenados.'

https://elpais.com/chile/2023-08-29/brigadieres-y-coroneles-los-siete-exmilitares-condenados-por-el-asesinato-de-victor-jara-alcanzaron-altos-rangos-en-el-ejercito.html

'In this study, we identified that PRMT3 catalyzes asymmetric arginine dimethylation of RIG-I, MDA5, and cGAS, leading to the inhibition of their activation. As a result, knockdown of Prmt3 in mice can protect mice against both RNA and DNA virus infection.'
#immunology #InnateImmunity

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214956120

'Nobody would dare to boil down Ursula Le Guin’s marvelous writing—all that fantasy, all that science fiction, poetry, essays, translations—into one idea. But in a pinch I’d pick two sentences from her 2014 National Book Award speech: “Capitalism[’s] power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

https://lithub.com/dragons-are-people-too-ursula-le-guins-acts-of-recognition/

'The pigment cells of the sea urchin were also found to be similar to immune and neural cell types in the sea star. Based on the genes shared between them, Meyer et al. propose that pigment cells have a dual role (immune and neural) in sea urchin larvae, while these functions are exerted by two separate cell types in sea stars (Figure 1B).'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/90447