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are you interested in researching the relationshio between #vision and #sleep #neuroscience? we have a fully funded #PhD opportunity using classic #drosophila #genetics, #connectome and #scRNASeq to investigate! the sutdent will work with Feuda lab @robertofeuda at @NeurogeneticsLeicester

please see further info here and BOOST!!

warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mi

"In Dr Anti-Vax, a three-part podcast from Tortoise Media, the journalist Alexi Mostrous tells of the rise of Wakefield and his role in a broader movement against vaccines which, amplified by social media and politicians trying to foster anti-establishment credentials, reached fever pitch during the Covid-19 pandemic."

ft.com/content/d06ef2aa-b32b-4

"Here, we review insights from ecology and evolution and their application throughout abiogenesis. In particular, we discuss how ecological and evolutionary constraints shape the evolution of biological innovation"

academic.oup.com/evolut/advanc

"We’ll tell you “twenty minutes” as I hold in my laughter and high-five our delivery guy. If it does arrive, you’ll eat it, unconvincingly telling your loved ones that it tastes just like the pizza at Bleecker Street pizzeria in the city. Only you’ll know it tastes more like Bleecker Street, the street in the city."

mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-the

"The report shows that Japan ranks third globally in the total number of researchers, following China and the United States. However, this workforce is not producing the same level of high-impact research as it was two decades ago. Japan’s global share of research papers in the top 10% of most-cited articles has slipped from 6% to 2%, intensifying concerns in Japan about its dwindling international standing."

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

Reuters - Social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X, formerly Twitter, as a result of actions taken by Elon Musk that limit access to the social media platform.
reuters.com/technology/elon-mu

"Research by Samson and others in primates and nonindustrial human populations has revealed the various ways that human sleep is unusual. We spend fewer hours asleep than our nearest relatives, and more of our night in the phase of sleep known as rapid eye movement, or REM."

theatlantic.com/science/archiv

"(...) several higher-education historians worry that the current movement in the United States to reconstitute university boards, establish guidelines for what universities can and cannot promote, and restrict faculty speech is exactly how leaders in authoritarian states operate."

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

@cyrilpedia no Brasil há um modelo predatório de ensino superior privado que se tornou predominante e tem destruído a educação nos últimos 20 anos, apesar de gerar muito lucro aos empresários.

Não é à toa que o ministro da economia de Bolsonaro é historicamente um dos maiores especuladores financeiros da área e sua irmã, uma das principais representantes do setor.

'Al menos hay nueve proyectos con distinto grado de maduración: dos en Madrid, dos en Andalucía, uno en Baleares, uno en Canarias, dos en Extremadura y otro en Galicia. Y el alcalde de Calatayud maniobra para que haya un décimo en Aragón.'

elpais.com/educacion/2023-11-0

‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness
#wellness #womenshealth

theguardian.com/wellness/2023/

> The industry claims to offer answers for all our stress and symptoms – but we ‘still lack the fundamentals of wellbeing’. How did this happen?

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biophysics/Structural Biology at UT Austin Chemistry

The University of Texas at Austin

'Postdoc positions in HS-AFM #AFM are open for Biophysicist, Biochemist, Molecular and Structural Biologist.' Come join us in #Austin. #postdocjobs

See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/the-university...
jobrxiv.org/job/the-university

'In this illuminating study, he presents the outbreak of the revolution in Paris in 1789 as the culmination of 40 years’ worth of political scandals and cultural polemics, which — fueled by a barrage of real and fake news from a diverse range of sources — fostered in the public “a revolutionary temper that was ready to destroy one world and construct another.”

nytimes.com/2023/11/04/books/r

"In a mouse model, neutralizing IL-10 signaling through antibodies, genetically ablating IL-10R1 in sensory neurons, or depleting monocytes with clodronate all impaired the resolution of pain hypersensitivity in both sexes."

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

"Amanda Sierra never intended to organize a weekend conference. “It is extremely disrespectful to start a conference over the weekend; it is almost insulting for the intrusion on family time and private life,” says the cell biologist at the Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience in Leioa, Spain. At past conferences, Sierra would make a political statement of leaving early or asking organizers to change the date of her talk to avoid having to spend weekends away from her child"

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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