Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Facebook has already shifted users’ agreements for UK users away from the EU to its US terms, does not allow UK users to opt-out of personalised advertisements, nor do they plan to switch to a consent-based model of advertising like is happening in Europe.

It's more than obvious that Facebook doesn't believe the Information Commissioner's Office will enforce UK data protection standards."

🗣️ @marianods for ORG

#GDPR #dataprotection #meta #ukpolitics

https://theferret.scot/uk-privacy-watchdog-threads-app-probe/

Happy 80th birthday to seminal freaky comic artist Robert Crumb, tempering the overweening exuberance of his fellow Boomers since the Haight-Ashbury days.

Botany-minded folks in the vicinity of PA - we will be hosting the #Pennsylvania #Botany Symposium this fall in State College, PA (October 20-21). It's a cool mix of workshops (like #PlantID), students presenting their research, and presentations from experts on our regional flora. Join us!

More info on the symposium:https://pabotany.org/2023-symposium/
Information for students interested in presenting research: https://pabotanysymposium.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/2023-pennsylvania-botany-symposium-call-for-abstracts.pdf

RESEARCH ASSISTANT I-Liu Lab

Scripps Research

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-assistant-i-liu-lab/?feed_id=57141

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
San Diego #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-assistant-i-liu-lab/?feed_id=57141

#DMastodon MedSky🧪#COVID19vaccines work and #COVIDvaccines saved lives . In this study show that antibody responses to #SARSCoV2 mRNA vaccination follow a classical biphasic decay with a rapid waning phase initially followed by a transition into a stabilization phase after 7-9 months. 🧵by @florian_krammer & @vivianasimonlab
https://x.com/florian_krammer/status/1696243126505984401?s=61

“If librarians were honest, they would say,
No one spends time here without being changed…”
https://t.co/oSXHLIEjN5

Latest #CheesyFungi piece from the group
Ewen Crequer and collaborators describe a fifth Penicillium roqueforti population from naturally colonising #Termignon artisan cheeses
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.13578

So now we have "Many Coauthors Study" to determine which of Gino's papers were based on data she collected. Probably necessary to clarify which studies are trustworthy but, my goodness, it's so depressing to see so much time taken up on this, when people could and should be doing more interesting things.
https://behavioralscientist.org/amid-uncertainty-about-francesca-gino-led-research-the-many-co-authors-project-could-provide-clarity/
Plus implicit criticism of #Harvard for not making their investigation open
#fraud #science #openscience #Gino

Lineage commitment of #dermal #fibroblast #progenitors is controlled by #Kdm6b-mediated #chromatin #demethylation
Ryan Driskell and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023113880

Fun reminder that Lucille Ball is the only reason that Star Trek exists.

As the head of Desilu Productions, she green-lighted a pilot; then when it was deemed "too cerebral" by the networks, funded a financially-risky SECOND pilot that got the series picked up by NBC.

"f you regularly follow debates about public policy, especially those involving wealthy tech bros, it’s obvious that there’s a strong correlation among the three Cs: climate denial, Covid vaccine denial and cryptocurrency cultism."

~ Paul Krugman

#ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #Covid #vaccines #crypto #TechBros #libertarianism #science #disinformation

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/columnists/covid-climate-cryptocurrency-plutocrats.html

@cyrilpedia @anneurai @biorxivpreprint that's tougher to do automatically since not coded as such in citations. but we do have a Follow feature as @steveroyle says. This allows you to see when a preprint is published in a journal, updated, commented on, etc.

We have impact stories about how #OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenData & #OER are helping bridge the digital divide, advance scientific discovery, streamline research & increase college success. See examples from Colombia to South Africa on our website here: https://sparcopen.org/impact-stories/

On this day in 1919: Maurice Hilleman born, pioneered 8 out of 14 vaccines routinely given to children today #ThisDayinBiotechnology

Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them like they were. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/30/1078670/large-language-models-arent-people-lets-stop-testing-them-like-they-were/

Analysis of 10k peer reviews reveals that those for high-#ImpactFactor #journals pay more attention to Materials/Methods but less to Presentation/Reporting (those for low-#JIF journals emphasize solutions) @annasvrn @eggersnsf @ste_mueller &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/45tDVzz