Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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#^The rights of the dead
From the Irish Giant to the Ancient One, is it ever ethical for scientists and museums to study bodies without permission?
- by Anita Guerrini
Read at Aeon
From the Irish Giant to the Ancient One, is it ever ethical for scientists and museums to study bodies without permission?
- by Anita Guerrini
Read at Aeon
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What happens in Austria and the Netherlands doesn't stay in Austria and the Netherlands.
Unprecedented rise in wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels Here's the rundown https://erictopol.substack.com/p/from-a-detour-to-global-dominance
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The amazing GLP-1 drugs are associated with reduced risk of colon cancer, even in people who are not overweight (with T2 diabetes), during 15-year follow-up
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2812769
"The assumption was that once the benefits of open access were explained to them, researchers would voluntarily embrace it – primarily by self-archiving their research in institutional or preprint repositories. But while many researchers were willing to sign petitions in support of open access, few (outside disciplines like physics) proved willing to practice it voluntarily."
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After discussions with the Public Health Expert Group (PHEG), our priorities for for 2024 are:
▶️health promotion & prevention of non-communicable diseases
▶️health, socio-economic, commercial, urban & environmental determinants
More here:
https://europa.eu/!t3ppwd
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https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23HealthUnion
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EU_Health/status/1732778553077272622#m
[2023-12-07 15:06 UTC]
“Ela estava determinada em lutar por justiça e sabia que haveria um “preço” a pagar pela audácia de uma mulher negra, da periferia, levar à justiça um agente da polícia, num concelho em que 76% das queixas contra agentes policiais foram arquivadas entre 2014 e 2019."
https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/07/opiniao/opiniao/silencio-nao-protegera-2072812
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Omar Ahmed, from Ben Langmead’s lab on Compressed linear pangenome indexes for more robust read classification. Read more in @genomeresearch https://tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-277642. #gi2023
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Our preprint reviewing the Loeb 2022 study purporting to show N95s don't work better than medical masks is out.
The study is deeply flawed.
'Pintor, escultor, escritor y activista, Pérez Esquivel la conoció de cerca. En 1977, mientras promovía enlaces entre organizaciones sociales para defender a las víctimas de los regímenes militares en toda Latinoamérica y lideraba la resistencia no violenta contra las dictaduras, fue tomado preso por la de Jorge Rafael Videla. Fue encarcelado y torturado durante 14 meses, y los militares argentinos se lo llevaron en uno de los vuelos de la muerte, desde donde lanzaban a los prisioneros sedados al Río de La Plata.'
"Shortages have occurred regularly since at least the early 2000s, when national tracking began. Hundreds of drugs, in every major therapeutic category, have been unavailable for some period. The average drug shortage lasts about 1.5 years"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/opinion/drug-shortages-pharmaceuticals.html
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Firefox has a new hidden setting auto-rejecting cookie banners (not just hiding them eg Brave). Piloting in 🇩🇪 in Private Browsing but anyone can enable:
Go to the URL about:config
Set cookiebanners.ui.desktop.enabled ->True
Go to Settings->Privacy, turn on Cookie Banner Blocker.
"A recent Human Rights Watch report says settler violence in the occupied West Bank has doubled since the 7 October attacks. Photographer David Lombeida stayed with Palestinian families facing threats and abuse from settlers encroaching on their land"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/07/west-bank-settler-violence-a-photo-essay
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December 7, 1872, HMS Challenger sets sail from Portsmouth, England. The Challenger expedition was at the time the most ambitious scientific mission to study life forms and sediments of the deep ocean ⛵
https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/the-challenger-expedition-and-the-beginning-of-oceanography/
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Some #parasite infected sticklebacks fight back with internal scaring to prevent the parasite from taking hold and the scaring also makes the #fish stiffer, helping them to beat a hastier retreat from predators
#zoology #biology #comparativephysiology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb247041/336507
Read the full research at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/23/jeb246684/336506
'The results showed that an organ’s biological age is linked to disease risk. For example, roughly 2% of participants had accelerated heart ageing — that is, their levels of blood proteins relating to heart ageing differed substantially from those of other people of the same age. Having a prematurely old heart was linked to a 250% increased risk of heart failure, the authors found.'
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Issue 22 is complete!
On the cover: a Drosophila testis stained using single molecule fluorescence in situ hybridization with probes against cycB RNA (green) and loopin-1 RNA (red), with DAPI (blue) marking DNA. See Baker et al.
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/22/dev201709/335491/Cell-type-specific-interacting-proteins
Also in Issue 22:
▪4 Research Highlights on FSH, cell networks, hair follicles & syncytia
▪In preprints on RNA in PRC2
▪People behind the papers interview
▪2 Transition in development interviews
▪XCI meeting review
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/issue/150/22
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A new method to identify enhancers:
MAE-seq refines regulatory elements across the genome
Nucleic Acids Research, gkad1129, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1129
Notably, quoting the authors:
"33.85% of the identified enhancers were identified as de novo ones with no epigenetic modification"
"The exchange highlighted a growing fault line in Irish society over immigration that experts say has been weaponized by the far right to drive discontent, and that spilled into the light last month when disorder and looting gripped the capital."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/world/europe/dublin-riot-far-right.html
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
