Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Avoiding heated discussions seems to have been an explicit policy rather than an inadvertent omission. In 1950, for example, the ‘News and Views’ column informed readers that a recent article by Julian Huxley on Soviet genetics ‘could clearly not be allowed to become the subject of debate in the correspondence columns of this journal’—a sentiment that would have seemed very odd to anyone who remembered Nature under Lockyer or Gregory."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0029

@NicoleCRust STAT had an interesting op piece on this last year https://www.statnews.com/2022/02/01/kariko-problem-lessons-funding-basic-research/

CancerProteome: a resource to functionally decipher the proteome landscape in cancer https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkad824/7308681?login=false

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#proteomics #prot-paper

I was recently at the #HumboldtForum in #Berlin, where one of the first sculptural depictions of the #Buddha was on display (so-called #Gandhara style). I have summarized the footage from that visit in this blog post.

🌏 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2023-10-11-life_of_buddha_on_15_stone_reliefs/

#Buddhism #BuddhistArt

'The long-term persistence of a virus depends on the continual availability of newly susceptible individuals through either birth or the loss of immunity that was originally conferred through prior infection or vaccination. Loss of immunity can result from limited host immune memory or from alterations to the viral genome, often referred to as immune or vaccine ‘escape’ mutations. Thadani and colleagues’ focus is on viral mutations that destabilize the binding of ‘neutralizing’ antibodies to the virus (Fig. 1); however, other modes of immune evasion are possible'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02931-9

"But what makes something hard to discover? I don't mean impossible to discover—you can't see the rings of Saturn without a telescope, for example. I mean cases where it seems like we have everything we need to make a discovery, and yet we take centuries to make it. Why does that happen?"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/on-the-importance-of-staring-directly?ref=thebrowser.com

Republicans Are Treating Other Republicans Like They Do Democrats: The Not-Speaker Scalise Edition https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/10/13/republicans-are-treating-other-republicans-like-they-do-democrats-the-not-speaker-scalise-edition/

A very insightful perspective on variants and booster vaccination at Science Magazine

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2712

"Broadly protective vaccines, potentially given mucosally (e.g. intranasally) are urgently needed for SARS-CoV-2."

Somebody was here (pawprints I).

Ms: BL, Royal MS 6 C X, f. 19v (12th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons @histodons

Some really useful advice here for responding to reviewers.

http://labrigger.com/blog/2023/10/13/advice-for-responding-to-reviewers/

#ScientificPublishing #AcademicChatter

'Some Black Southerners, especially those who survived attacks or witnessed the violence firsthand, decided that they couldn’t bear the extreme risk of simply exercising their franchise. Bordewich includes some heart-rending testimony from freedmen who were too terrified to go to the ballot box. As one Black man put it, “I had to deny voting to save myself.”'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/books/review/klan-war-fergus-bordewich.html

Bombeiro Voluntário de Lisboa

Transparent peer review, steampunk version:

"In the early nineteenth century, French journals such as the Annals de Chimie sometimes included essays evaluating recent papers released by the Academie des Sciences. In 1831, inspired by those French essays, the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) made a proposal to his fellow members of the Royal Society of London: that papers submitted to the Philosophical Transactions should be sent to two Fellows, who would then write a report about the paper. The signed report would be published in the Royal Society’s new journal, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."

https://ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/19/