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“The fact is, we’re not really ready,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. “Our local health departments are very spotty with their ability to do mosquito control and to even try to diagnose these viruses and mosquitoes.”

salon.com/2023/10/21/mosquito-

We’re hiring an Ocean Biogeochemistry Modeling Lead at [C]Worthy to help build oceanographic modeling and data-integration tools for ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. The pay is $150,000–190,000 a year. Come work with us!

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"At the same time, wealthy nations have, for centuries, been extracting natural resources from low- and middle-income countries and pocketing the proceeds. Scientific data, unfortunately, have been among those resources."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

"The people in power are still doubling down on everything that brought us here. They are still outsourcing the pandemic response to the rapacious private healthcare industry. They are still implying that the Covid dead have only themselves to blame—after all, “we have the tools.” They are still insisting that the fault must not be in our stars but in ourselves, transforming an issue of public health into one of personal responsibility."

@gregggonsalves

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"I also want to inspire young people to recognize the importance and wonder of , and to encourage early career researchers to be resilient when things don’t go to plan."

embo.org/people/delivering-the

Incredible find in an island that holds so many amazing preserved historic relics. Love Orkney and will definitely check the latest excavations on my next visit

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"Almost immediately after the paper’s publication, two anonymous commenters on PubPeer, a forum for discussing peer-reviewed articles, pointed out repeated numerical values in the spreadsheets from a supplementary file included with the article."

spectrumnews.org/news/nobel-la

"In this study, we introduce a database-integrated genome screening (DIGS) approach to investigating the dark genome in silico, focusing on endogenous viral elements found within vertebrate genomes."

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

"Un prestigioso investigador español de la enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob murió el año pasado tras experimentar síntomas compatibles con esta dolencia letal, según ha podido saber EL PAÍS por múltiples fuentes de las tres instituciones implicadas."

elpais.com/ciencia/2023-10-19/

"The emphasis on early-career women, especially in higher-prestige and STEM departments, has provided a deep, but narrow understanding of gendered retention: Women assistant professors in STEM make up just 15% of all tenure-track and tenured women at PhD-granting institutions in the U.S. (1), and those at higher-prestige institutions comprise an even smaller share"

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

"No quiero idealizar el Twitter anterior a Musk. Siempre hubo mucha desinformación y comportamiento antisocial en la plataforma. Hace tiempo que dejé de leer las respuestas de la gente a la que no sigo, en parte porque cualquiera con un gran número de seguidores recibía demasiadas respuestas como para seguirle el ritmo, pero también porque la hostilidad ad hominem de muchos analistas llegaba a ser cansina. Aun así, Twitter, utilizado con cuidado, era muy útil, especialmente cuando se producían acontecimientos importantes."

elpais.com/economia/negocios/2

Earlier: “Black women stand to be disproportionately impacted by the court’s egregious assault on basic human rights.”

When it comes to infant mortality, a new study shows the results are sadly predicable—outcomes worsen in state's with #abortion restrictions. texasobserver.org/infant-morta

#racism #health #healthcare #children #RoeVWade #Texas #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice

Find the subgroup of microsatellite-stable #colorectalcancer patients with a POLE/POLD mutation: there is a good chance theses #cancer respond to #immunotherapy , as nicely discussed by Chiara Cremolini and Guillem Arguiles Martinez at #ESMO23 in Madrid
#Oncology #PrecisionMedicines #chemotherapy #tumor #medicaloncology

🌱Monitoring plant growth patterns is crucial for understanding drought episodes and their consequences🌍🌡️
This week's Observer explores how
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HR-VPP is used to study the impact of heatwaves — invaluable data for
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