Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

‘Wales, though. It’s not a huge place.’
‘It’s exactly the size it is, isn’t it?’ Shirely said. ‘Reports are always saying something’s “an area the size of Wales”. And that’s exactly the size Wales is.’
This was met with a short silence.
- Joe Country, Mick Herron.

#Book #Bookshelf #bookstodon

Museu do Oriente, Lisbon.

TLS and #Bcells predict therapeutic responses and longer survival in patients treated with #Immunotherapy
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00365-5?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Current issue
https://www.cell.com/immunity/current

France exposes mega Russian disinformation campaign

> France has uncovered a wide-ranging Russian disinformation campaign to undermine Western support to Ukraine, the country's agency in charge of spotting foreign interference online announced Tuesday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-accuses-russia-of-wide-ranging-disinformation-campaign/ #France #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineWar

@cyrilpedia And at a cost about half of the projected cost for merely the #HS2 London-Manchester line. Costs in the #UK for just about anything are absurd. One wonders where does the money go.

When I read Jaron Lanier’s persuasive book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” (2018), I consoled myself by saying, this doesn’t describe Twitter.

If it didn’t then, it certainly does now.

(e.g. “Social media is undermining truth”;
“Social media is making what you say meaningless”;
“Social media is making you an asshole.”) https://mastodon.social/@KaradelaMarck/111216819110634484

The example I will start with was created by a PhD student of a junior group for our division retreat: a game of life with a single modified rule where you have to figure out this rule. Surprisingly difficult but very instructive!
It was also very interesting to see how different teams presented/interpreted this rule after they had discovered it!

Next week I will start a new lecture series 'Being creative in physics', which is a kind of experiment. Basically, in an interactive format I want to help students understand how you tackle the unknown, where no one tells you what are even the right questions or which physical effects may be important. I will try to have them tackle various scenarios working in teams, like figuring out some mystery equations of motion etc. Read about it: https://pad.gwdg.de/s/ZpJd1xMoQ

Any ideas/suggestions?

The #iNaturalist fairy—by the hand of user ‘fonsv’–just delivered a precise species ID to an observation of mine of an #Ichneumonidae parasitoid wasp. A great match; mind these are hard to identify, primarily from the lack of available guides and accessible reference material. Mine is merely the 5th observation worldwide of this species.

Rhembobius perscrutator http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112312570

#Hymenoptera #entomology #insects

Red Hat is looking for a software engineer intern in Waterford, #Ireland. Take a look or pass it on!

https://careers-redhat.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searchLocation=13267--Remote

'These publicly accessible databases aim to provide an overview of all animal studies (including those that are ongoing and work that may remain unpublished) to increase transparency and reduce unnecessary duplication of experiments. Unfortunately, usage to date has been low, with only a few hundred entries across each registry [7]. As a potential solution, we propose integrating preclinical registration within the animal use protocol (AUP) review process'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002293

“His behaviour on the platform — he sets the tone from the top — he’s saying it’s OK to spread conspiracy theories as he does it himself,” said Kayla Gogarty, research director at left-leaning non-profit Media Matters. “This is the first big test for Musk’s version of X. The platform has failed this test.”

https://www.ft.com/content/ca3e08ee-3167-464a-a1d3-677a59387c71?sharetype=blocked

"For more than a decade, Twitter was an absolutely key resource for understanding major world events and disasters in real time. Open-source reporters and investigators pieced together the picture on the ground from primary sources and verified content. I’m calling it Twitter in this instance, because that was then. X is something different, although I’m sure we’re all on tenterhooks for its vaunted transformation into the everything app/surveillance capitalism dreamscape humanity deserves."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/10/horror-israel-hamas-war-elon-musk-x-twitter-not-fit-to-run-it

Just a reminder of quite how much the UK was failed but Tory decisions in Covid https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/covid-inquiry-6-shocking-moments-you-may-have-missed_uk_6526b5c1e4b09f4b8d429a0a

Steve Scalise is the GOP pick for House Speaker

Stated he is Grand Wizard “David Duke without the baggage”

Rounded up 192 Republicans voted against the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act

Helped amplify the Big Lie

Spoke at an anti-LGBTQIA rally months after a lesbian police officer saved his life

Worked against Ebola aid, took credit for Ebola aid

Yep…solid republican résumé.