Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

How do citizens across Europe view and evaluate democracy?

With Mónica Ferrín and Enrique Hernández, I have written up some results from ESS 6 and 10.

ESS 10 includes 31 countries, and new questions on populism!🎉

Overall, we find views and evaluations to be relatively stable over time. However, there are interesting country differences and changes in how citizens view and evaluate social and direct democracy.

View report: https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/TL013_Democracy-English.pdf

@ess_survey
#Democracy

What does the #OAWeek theme "Community over Commercialization" mean to you? We asked more than a dozen leaders working to make research open by default & equitable by design. Read profiles of their organizations, including @_CLACSO, here: https://www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profiles #OpenAccess

Today's comic. On Hancock's Half Hour of potentially self-incrimination evidence...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2308511120

The immune cell census in the human body! These ~2 trillion cells collectively weigh ~1.2 kg, 40% are lymphocytes, 10% macrophages

"The maximum level considered safe by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a long-term average of no more than 5 μg/m3 (micrograms per cubic metre).

Milan’s levels are almost four times the safe amount, at 19.7 μg/m3."

So the mayor is banning cars.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/23/one-of-europes-most-polluted-cities-wants-to-ban-cars-from-its-centre

"In this study, we found that osteosarcoma cells acquired healthy mitochondria from platelets, which subsequently weakened their proliferation ability but enhanced their tendency to metastasize by altering their energy metabolism."

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)01159-2

"Like most medical researchers, Dr. Pattillo had known about the HeLa cells since he was a graduate student. As it happened, he had also been a fellow in the Johns Hopkins lab in Baltimore that had first cultured them, one of the few Black doctors working there in the late 1960s.
But unlike many other scientists, Dr. Pattillo was keenly focused on the fact that there was a human being behind those cells, and that she had left a family behind. For years he had wanted to honor her contributions to science."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/obituaries/dr-roland-pattillo-dead.html

"In recommendation letters, women and URM students are more likely to be described with personal attribute descriptors and communal adjectives rather than competencies [7,8]. For example, women are more likely to be described as having ‘compassion’ and ‘enthusiasm’. By contrast, men are more likely to be described as ‘exceptional’ or ‘outstanding’ [9]."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165614723000433?via%3Dihub

I cant believe I missed this just because I was, well, zero years old at the time

“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.”

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/21/mosquito-borne-illnesses-are-picking-up-speed-experts-say-americans-are-unprepared/

"Drought in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil producer, has devastated recent harvests, and bad weather has hit olive crops in other major growers like Italy, Greece and Portugal. The United States imports almost all of the olive oil it consumes, primarily from Spain and Italy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/business/olive-oil-price.html

Finally!
#excel #gene #names #data #bioinformatics
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/21/23926585/microsoft-excel-misreading-dates-human-genes-conversion-fixed