Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

December 2, 2014, died #OTD, geophysicist Don L. Anderson, his seismic research helped advance our understanding of the composition, structure, and dynamics of Earth and Earth-like planets 🌎

https://caltech.edu/about/news/don-l-anderson-44994#sthash.0aGpSQyT.6pX9mMcW.dpuf

'Although mouse and human MAIT cell transcriptomes showed similarities for immature cells in the thymus, they diverged more strikingly in the periphery. Analysis of pet store mice demonstrated decreased lung MAIT17 cells in these so-called “dirty” mice, indicative of an environmental influence on MAIT cell subsets and function.'

#Immunology #MucosalImmunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.abn8531?utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SciImmunology

"In total, bitcoin consumed nearly 1,600 billion litres of water in 2021.The 2023 figure could be more than 2,200 billion litres of water.

The main reason Bitcoin uses so much water is because it relies on an enormous amount of computing power, which in turn needs huge amounts of electricity.

Bitcoin is so power hungry it uses only marginally less electricity than the entire country of Poland."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67564205

"The main and interesting conclusion in the abstract is that of the 45% of alumni not continuing in academic research, one third does industry research and one third is in a science-related profession."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/78706#sa1

"The F.D.A. has approved six commercial CAR-T products. Cancer specialists said the treatments have saved the lives of thousands of patients with blood cancers. Even if there is a causal link between the treatments and a small risk of a new blood cancer, the regulators said on Tuesday, the benefits of the treatment outweigh the risks. That sentiment was echoed by doctors involved in cancer treatment."
#immunology #immunotherapy #CARTcells

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/health/fda-car-t-blood-cancer.html

'O principal obstáculo a um ensino de qualidade é, para os professores, o tempo atribuído à História nas matrizes curriculares (58%). Em Portugal, a redução da carga lectiva a esta disciplina acentuou-se a partir de 2018, com a implementação da flexibilidade curricular. Um inquérito realizado, em 2021, pela Associação de Professores de História mostrou que, em mais de metade das escolas, a carga horária reservada para a disciplina, no 3.º ciclo, era menos de metade do tempo recomendado.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/30/sociedade/noticia/ensino-historia-importante-identidade-nacional-governo-professores-desacordo-2072159

"Those new cases were concentrated in just five countries: Pakistan, Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia and Papua-New Guinea. Climate change was a direct contributor in three of them, said Dr. Daniel Ngamije, who directs the W.H.O. malaria program."
#Malaria

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/health/malaria-climate-change.html

“I think we should understand our policy — that however unpleasant they act, this government is better for us than Allende was,” Kissinger said to his deputies, according to declassified transcripts, in the weeks after the coup. A few years later, in 1976, Kissinger would tell Pinochet, “My evaluation is that you are a victim of all left-wing groups around the world and that your greatest sin was that you overthrew a government which was going Communist.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/henry-kissinger-foreign-policy-democracy.html

The earliest known image of Keith Richards ca 1140

🪱 La policía detiene a dos militantes de @FuturoVegetal y los acusa de organización criminal

Tres meses después de que la Fiscalía desmintiese que el activismo ecologista pudiese ser considerado terrorismo, la policía nacional detiene y pone en libertad con cargos a dos activistas a los que acusa de organización criminal.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/libertades-civiles/policia-detiene-dos-militantes-futuro-vegetal-acusa-organizacion-criminal

@mmasnick has done the world a solid for devoting considerable time and effort transcribing Elmo's rambling comments that were indecipherable except for the repeated exhortations that people exercising their rights to free speech and association fuck themselves.

My favorite section:

ARS: I understand that, but there’s a reality too, right? I mean Linda Yaccarino’s right here and she’s gotta sell advertising.

Elon: Yes, no, no, right. Yes. No. Absolutely so. No, no, totally. So, no, no, so. Actually what this advertising boycott is going to do, it’s going to kill the company.

ARS: [realizing that Elon seems to be encouraging a boycott that will, as he just said, kill the company] And you think that the…

Elon: But, the whole world will know that the advertisers killed the company. And we will document it in great detail.

ARS: But those advertisers are going to say “we didn’t kill the company…”

Elon: Oh yeah? Tell that to Earth!

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/30/elon-after-personally-driving-away-advertisers-tells-them-to-go-fuck-themselves-repeatedly-and-says-earth-will-judge-them-for-killing-extwitter/

Good thread by @micefearboggis o the #WMO state of the climate annual report.
https://fediscience.org/@micefearboggis/111510022397082051

"Why were there so few female scientists? Why was science considered a masculine enterprise? Reflecting on these issues, Keller embarked on two projects: her studies on gender and science, and her biography of US geneticist Barbara McClintock."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03819-4