Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"In an ideal world, the pre-award process would be transparent, easily understood, and equitable. There would be equal access for all researchers to information about funding opportunities, along with tailored support to meet a range of needs, including those of underrepresented academics. There would be plenty of time and resources allocated for applications, and appropriate training for those in decision-making positions. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that, sadly, things look very different in the real world."

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/09/12/inequities-in-grant-funding-start-early-how-can-we-address-them/

'The transcriptomic signature of human acute kidney injury was enriched with genes in pathways involved in cell adhesion and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (e.g., CDH6, ITGB6, CDKN1A).'
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.11.557054v1

Glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

https://hunchbacksociety.cargo.site/Small-talk

#Ceramics #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #artmastodon

'A series of low-cost measures to make childbirth safer could save the lives of 2mn more mothers and babies around the world by 2030, said a leading philanthropic organisation.'

https://www.ft.com/content/2d26c1ba-8f51-43d8-a3a5-b96b5b387df8

'Years ago, researchers discovered that American women were dying in childbirth at an alarming rate, far higher than in many other Western countries. Black women, they found, were dying at even more elevated rates. Data in hand, they called for change.
(...)
The year was 1917.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/maternal-health-childbirth.html

"There are, Schuppe Koistinen says, no probiotics available that contain the species of lactobacillus that scientists have identified as supporting good vaginal health."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/11/the-vaginal-microbiome-how-to-look-after-it-and-what-to-avoid

'Yet it turns out that Olympia, or at least her model, has been to New York before. Last month, the anthropologist James Fairhead presented the astounding discovery of a newspaper interview from 1869 with a redheaded French dancer appearing onstage in New York. An enterprising producer had brought her from Paris to perform the cancan at a Broadway variety — and her name was Victorine Meurent.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/09/arts/design/olympia-manet-degas-new-york-met-museum.html

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) at Hinxton is recruiting a Head of Research

https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/EBI02139

'Aliás um relatório de 2021 do Observatório Fiscal da União Europeia apontou este regime português de exceção para pensionistas não-residentes como "dos mais prejudiciais da UE". E explica porquê: "Estes regimes têm longas durações, grandes vantagens fiscais e visam apenas indivíduos de rendimentos muito elevados ou não se repercutem numa atividade económica real no Estado-membro."

https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/-subsidios-para-o-encarecer-da-habitacao-17007780.html

'Using mammalian cells in culture, we discovered that they adapt to chronic mild stresses of up to two weeks, notably proteotoxic stresses such as heat, by increasing their size and translation, thereby scaling the amount of total protein.'

#Preprint #CellBiology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.25.525547v3

'Most adults cannot remember anything of their lives before the age of three or four, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Scientists have suggested that this early forgetting is related to two aspects of cognitive development. First, cementing autobiographical memory requires language: it is harder to retain something when you lack the words to express it. Second, it requires a coherent sense of self, the ability to distinguish between “this happened” and “this happened to me”.'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/11/the-big-idea-are-memories-fact-or-fiction