Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Let this sink in for a minute...

Of all the mammals on Earth, 96% are livestock and humans.

Only 4% are wild mammals.

Of all birds in the world, 70% are chickens and other poultry, just 30% are wild.

#Nature #Biodiversity #Environment

“Unacceptable funding inequities have forced many of our nation’s distinguished Historically Black Colleges and Universities to operate with inadequate resources and delay critical investments in everything from campus infrastructure to research and development to student support services”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/land-grant-colleges-underfunded-biden-administration/675379/

'Ms. Yusuf is one in a legion of more than three million community health workers globally and is one of a small minority that are actually paid anything at all. Eighty-six percent of community health workers in Africa are completely unpaid.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/health/community-health-worker-pay.html

'Though humans have lived alongside mice for at least 15,000 years, few of us have ever heard mice sing, because they do so in frequencies beyond the range detectable by human hearing.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/magazine/animal-communication.html

"These studies demonstrate how a protein domain that enhances colonization of microorganisms in the marine environment can also enhance colonization in humans and identify a peptide that can inhibit V. cholerae virulence."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308238120

Sheffield is hiring! 4 x Research Fellow #newPI positions available in biophysics and quantitative biology (incl mechanobiology)

I can say from experience that Sheffield is a great place to start a research group

Pls share!

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/science/news/latest-vacancies-faculty-science

Nikki Haley and Tim Scott are here to remind you Republicans hate unions https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/nikki-haley-tim-scott-uaw-strike-autoworkers-donald-trump-detroit/

“So each time you are infected with Covid, you are rolling the dice on long Covid, whether it’s a first infection or second or third or so on?”

“That’s correct”

-Ziyad Al-Aly, chief of research at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System and clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis. - (paywall bypass link) - https://archive.md/2023.09.21-071143/https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/do-long-covid-odds-increase-with-second-infection/

The Hobbit was published on this day in 1937. Savor Tolkien's forgotten original drawings for the first edition https://t.co/vdFudXMKbI

'From next month Medicare, the taxpayer-funded healthcare system that covers 65mn US retirees, will for the first time get the power to negotiate lower prices directly with pharmaceutical companies for 10 of the most expensive drugs.'

https://www.ft.com/content/7e45d513-017f-4e68-9b23-68b974a21f1c

"Nevertheless, news continues to be made every day based on the statements and activities of newsworthy people—politicians, bankers, business leaders, artists, entertainers, and athletes. Other people are ignored unless they’ve been involved in a crime or a scandal, or suffered an accidental or violent death. If they have lived lawfully and uneventfully, and died of natural causes, obituary editors do not assign reporters to write about them. They are not newsworthy. They are essentially nobodies. I wanted to specialize in writing about nobodies."

- Gay Talese

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/gay-talese-memoir-excerpt/675359/

'The charged status of race in the census did not end there. Contemporary arguments about racial ‘degeneration’ and the changing composition of the US population fed directly into the census of 1920, in which almost half the form was devoted to questions about where people were born and what their parents’ mother tongue was.'

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

This story is crazy. A small town Texas bigot tries to run a gay couple out of town, but in the process of fighting back, they discover that the bigot has been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the town. So she apparently burned down the town hall, fled the state, and is living homeless in a Colorado park.

#Texas

https://themessenger.com/news/2-gay-dads-helped-uncover-767000-embezzlement-scheme-in-texas-town-where-officials-called-them-homophobic-slurs

They carry a gene for ALS but aren’t sick. What does medical research owe them?

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/21/als-gene-carrier-riluzole-toferson/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

Our September issue includes a new Letter (https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad105) from Deborah Charlesworth et al. that provides a counterpoint to a GBE article published in March by Lydia Fong et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad030), along with a response from Fong et al. (https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad128). #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Nature’s take on the IIT as consciousness debate:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02971-1