Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Doctors with Long Covid

~4% of UK healthcare workers
"These are doctors left at risk and let down during the pandemic, and they're still being let down with lack of support."
"We've been left to rot."
https://bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1983

'But despite the uniformity in size of any given cell type, cell sizes vary over an enormous seven orders of magnitude from red blood cells to the largest muscle fibers, comparable to the mass ratio of a shrew to a blue whale. This raises the question: What is the size distribution of cells over the entire human body?'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303077120

Alrighty folks, Skype a Scientist is doing alright. 1,130 classrooms signed up this fall. That's...ok!

Buuuut we have so many scientists twiddling their thumbs waiting to get matched.

SO!

Do the thing humans are built to do. Connect with people! Tell an educator you know we exist! Send them this picture! Send them a link! Send them both!

Folks can sign up to be matched on our website here https://www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Base editing makes it to clinical trials.

"Trial organizers announced on 5 September that the first participant had been treated using immune cells with four base-edited genes, equipping the cells to better target and destroy tumours. The hope is that the approach can tame trial participants’ difficult-to-treat form of leukaemia and serve as a gateway to more complex edits in the future."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02836-7?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&utm_campaign=2e1b5e1000-briefing-dy-20230919&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-2e1b5e1000-44356001

'In 2021, slashings and stabbings were up more than 1,000 percent from 2011. In 2019, ProPublica found that McKinsey had “rigged” its violence-reduction numbers. (McKinsey denied this.) And in May 2022, New York City stopped using McKinsey’s system for classifying detainees. In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along.'

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/?ref=thebrowser.com

'Our observation supports the belief that protection is conferred on several autoimmune sequelae by completing a minimum of two doses of COVID-19 vaccination.'
#COVID #Covid19

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00331-0/fulltext

Luckily, this problem is restricted to sports:

"The terms ‘data’ and ‘analytics’ are used interchangeably in sport, Smith points out, but in fact the gathering of data, fuelled by surging interest from sports teams and professional gamblers, has tended significantly to outpace the intelligent analytic use of that data."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/john-lanchester/get-a-rabbit

"The IMP is looking for outstanding group leaders in these areas and is particularly interested in recruiting faculty members who will use artificial intelligence, machine learning and other computational approaches to address fundamental problems in biology"
#sciencejobs

https://www.imp.ac.at/career/open-positions/ref2310-group-leader-position

Mask by Madalena Parreira

https://madalenaparreira.com/set-design

A picture I took of a Drosphila nurse cell using our new Leica Stellaris microscope

The mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture: he would prove a result, someone would ask about a generalization, he'd reply "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die.

He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996, just after proving a new result.

Sometimes tools that were originally developed for research can have important clinical applications. Lindsay Ejoh writes about one such tool, chemogenetics, that could be the key to eliminating unwanted side effects of drugs.

Read about it in her post, "A new tool to bypass common drug side effects": https://pennneuroknow.com/2023/09/19/a-new-tool-to-bypass-common-drug-side-effects/

#neuroscience #sciComm

😎 Fiz uma remistura com o vídeo da Quetzal ❤️, em diálogo virtual com a Anabela Mota Ribeiro ✨, que vai estar à conversa, mas a sério, na Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, em Lisboa, com o João Francisco Vilhena, já esta quinta-feira.
Aproveito para lhe falar do lançamento, no sábado, aqui no meu quintal, do 🎉“A História Mais Pequena do Mundo”🎈. Como acho que não vem, depois mando-lhe um exemplarzinho. Afinal, também eu comprei “O Quarto do Bebé”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvTApOYpZd4

A European tax on the on the richest 0.5% could bring in over €200 billion a year.

Two weeks after the launch of a broad appeal by economists and politicians to tax extreme wealth in the name of tax justice at the G20 summit – co-signed by 139 American and British millionaires ready to contribute – the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament published a study urging a move "from slogan to reality."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/09/20/a-european-tax-on-the-super-rich-could-bring-in-over-200-billion-a-year_6137895_19.html

#Europe #Tax #Wealth #Greens #EuropeanParliament

A Texas teacher has been fired for reading an adaptation of the diary of Anne Frank to her class.

Things like this are why it's accurate to call these people "Christofascists." https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-teacher-anne-frank-fired-18375331.php

Just in: "They stole 20 years of my life from me. I just want them held accountable.”

Former death row inmate Clinton Young has just filed a federal civil rights suit against two district attorneys who condoned the unethical behavior of the infamous 'moonlighting prosecutor': Ralph Petty sent Young to #prison while simultaneously working for #Midland county judges. https://www.texasobserver.org/clinton-young-death-row-lawsuit-midland/

#CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Texas #DeathPentalty #HumanRights #corruption #politics #USpol #news

Just got my COVID booster and everything hurts. But what hurts worse was the pharmacist telling me that she’s had to turn people away WHO WANTED THE SHOT because their insurance providers refuse to cover it (manufacturers are charging ~$120).

If your insurance provider won't cover your booster (or if you don't have insurance) the CDC's Bridge Access Program can help! It covers no-cost COVID-19 vaccines until December 31, 2024, more info here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html

#COVID #booster #CDC