Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

The loss of large-bodied #wildlife from tropical forests reduces their #carboncapture potential. This #PLOSBiology Perspective argues that carbon-based markets that incentivize wildlife #conservation can generate revenues to support needed #forest and #hunting management.
https://plos.io/44vBE5q

'But why should you see it, or see it again? Why should you (still) care? These are fair questions to ask of any consensus masterpiece — skepticism is what keeps art alive, reverence embalms it — and especially apt in the case of “Bicycle Thieves.” The movie is about seeing and caring, about the danger of being distracted from what matters. The tragedy it depicts arises partly from poverty, injustice and the aftereffect of dictatorship, but more profoundly from a deficit of empathy.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/movies/bicycle-thieves-italian-neorealism.html

'The US government named 10 of the best-selling drugs as the first to face tough price regulations in a bid to slash healthcare costs, marking the biggest shake-up for the pharmaceutical industry in decades.'

https://www.ft.com/content/fa9b0422-6f93-4703-9358-6396660f63b6

'Braxton, who is Black, decided to go to the town hall and talk to Stokes, who is white, in person. He told Stokes that he would need a key to the town hall to begin his duties. Stokes acquiesced and gave him a key, but when Braxton entered the building, he found that town hall had been stripped of its records, beyond a couple boxes of discarded items that looked like trash. He also said he noticed that Stokes had given keys to friends of his, people who were not council members and had no official business with the city, who were walking in and out of the building.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out

Is #CaloricRestriction the only diet that improves aging health? @Dorottya_Horkai @HouseleyLab &co show that dietary change from glucose to galactose, without restriction, can result in healthy #aging in yeast #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/44xS3GL

TOR-mediated Ypt1 #phosphorylation regulates autophagy initiation complex assembly

The Rab #GTPase #Ypt1 serves as a bridge that connects environmental sensing to the formation of the #autophagy initiation complex.

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022112814

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Great work on #mpox #virus ( #MonkeyPox) from Lisa Bauer, Debby van Riel, & Oliver Harschnitz:

"We found that MPXV infects and replicates more efficiently in astrocytes and microglia compared to cortical neurons, which unlike glial cells showed activation of distinct antiviral programs that may confer differential susceptibility to #MPXV."

from:
"Dissecting the neurotropism and neurovirulence of MPXV using human stem cell-based models"
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.25.554849

#virology #InfectiousDisease

A fun read from Adam Mastroianni on the recent #HonestyPapers #AcademicChatter controversy

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss

Imagine if someone told you that 60% of your loved ones had died in a plane crash... It would be insane to only remember the 60% statistic and then, whenever someone asked you who died in that horrible plane crash, respond, “Hmm, you know, I never really looked into it. Maybe, um, Uncle Fred? Or my friend Clarissa? It was definitely 60% of my loved ones, though, whoever it was.”

No talking in the library, please! Reading and research needed silence to protect the concentration of those using the library for knowledge production. However, this was moment of not being quiet by these two men in the @hab_wf in 1654. #HAB_WF A short #BookHistory thread, part 5.

@cyrilpedia Our lab recently catalogued our biggest energy slurpers. The -80C freezers easily came out on top, 10s of kWh/day according to the data sheet. Computation came as a surprising second, and we don't have any clue what the terribly insulated 1960s building costs to keep moderately warm in winter.

My previous institute ran a "get a new -80 freezer for free if you scrap two old ones" challenge for a while. Apparently the new freezers paid for themselves within a couple years.

'Implementing a series of sustainable practices in health research could help the field to reduce its hefty carbon footprint, according to a report commissioned by health-research funder Wellcome.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02642-1

'Here, once again, my personal landscape shifted and the possibility of a career in science seemed beyond my reach. I struggled to sleep at nights. I even tried distracting myself with daily 7 mile runs, every pounding step the question echoing: What do you do when you don’t know what to do?'

https://thenode.biologists.com/cracking-the-egg/careers/

“But the analysis discovered one major change: The incomes of the rich grew much faster in countries where tax rates were lowered. Instead of trickling down to the middle class, tax cuts for the rich may not accomplish much more than help the rich keep more of their riches and exacerbate income inequality, the research indicates.”

#tax #taxes #inequality #rich #middleclass

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/

Postdoc and Postgrad Positions in Computational Biology, Human Genetics, an

Yale University School of Medicine

Postdoc and postgrad positions open in Dr. Renato Polimanti’s group at the Yale University School of Medicine

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/yale-university-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoc-and-...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/yale-university-school-of-medicine-27778-postdoc-and-postgrad-positions-in-computational-biology-human-genetics-an/?feed_id=57050