Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“It is a form of social justice,” Anne Hidalgo announced on Friday of the plan to deliberately target the richest drivers to tackle the climate breakdown and air pollution. “This is about very expensive cars, driven by people who today have not yet made the changes to their behaviour that have to be made [for the climate].”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/paris-mayor-plans-to-triple-suv-parking-tariffs-cut-air-pollution

Luigi Pirandello Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature died #OTD in 1936. For his output, the themes he addressed and the innovation of the theatrical tale, he is considered among the most important playwrights of the 20th century. His works include several novellas and short stories and about forty dramas, the last of which is incomplete. via @wikipedia

Luigi Pirandello at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8041

#books #literature #theatre

A bunch of collaborators interviewed for this #NYT story about one of my co-workers at the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. During electrofishing surveys of #Hamilton Harbour, Christine Boston regularly catches *huge #goldfish which had been released when they outgrew people's home aquariums. They disturb plants and littoral areas and have no predators because nothing can eat them.
#FisheriesAndOceans #InvasiveSpecies #GreatLakes #Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/science/goldfish-invasive-great-lakes.html

AraPathogen2.0: An Improved Prediction of Plant–Pathogen Protein–Protein Interactions Empowered by the Natural Language Processing Technique https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jproteome.3c00364

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#proteomics #prot-paper

“En este periplo imaginario, sin embargo, todo empieza y concluye ante Las meninas de Velázquez. Mi vida está ligada a esta obra fascinante, se aparta de ella y vuelve a ella sin cesar, encontrándola siempre en su camino”.

https://elpais.com/babelia/2023-12-09/la-gran-aventura-europea-de-jorge-semprun.html

"The NADINA trial aims to compare the efficacy of neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab with that of adjuvant nivolumab in macroscopic stage III melanoma. Patients diagnosed with recurrent or de novo stage III melanoma, including up to three in-transit metastases, will be randomly assigned to receive neoadjuvant treatment or adjuvant treatment."
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02699-5#:~:text=Nature%20Medicine%20asks%20leading%20researchers,lung%20cancer%20and%20patient%20triage

New York Times, 1977

'One flight of fancy advanced by Dr. Woese, with an accompanying smile, is that the presence of this class of organisms might explain why life evolved here and not on the earth's sister planet, Venus.

The rationale goes as follows: Clouds of carbon dioxide originally enveloped both planets, but methanogens developed on earth and digested much of the cloud and in turn produced the hydrocarbons that developed into higher forms of life. But on Venus, according to this line of speculation, the lack of methanogens allowed the carbon dioxide to accumulate to the point that the so‐called “greenhouse effect” took over the Venusian surface, in turn making it too hot for life to evolve.'

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/11/03/archives/scientists-discover-a-form-of-life-that-predates-higher-organisms.html

#CNRSnews 📰 As extreme weather events are on the rise worldwide and the is being held in Dubai, the #IPCC is drafting a report on the impact of #ClimateChange on cities, which concentrate half the world’s population ⤵️ #WorldClimateDay 🌍
https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/climate-transition-and-the-city

Postdoc in Human Motor Neurophysiology @IIT_UniFe

Italian Institute of Technology

Wish to steam off some pressure to pursue your big research question? Let's do it together! We offer up to 5Y post-docs in Human Motor Neurophysiology

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/italian-institute-of-technology-27778-postdoc-in-human-motor-neu...
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Apply for our Phd project on "Discovering and characterising novel defence systems in pathogenic Serratia spp using microbiology and genomics"

#genomics #microbiology #omics

FindAPhD : Pathogens and Host Defences Doctoral Training Partnership PhD Studentships at University of Sussex
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/pathogens-and-host-defences-doctoral-training-partnership-phd-studentships/?p6353

UN chief vows to go on seeking ceasefire in #Gaza despite US veto - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/10/un-chief-vows-to-go-on-seeking-ceasefire-in-gaza-despite-us-veto "António Guterres says UN has no clear route map to stop conflict and world institutions are ‘caught in a time warp’ "

NPR: A missing tomato sparked a lighthearted mystery for the astronauts on board the International Space Station — and it's finally been solved after months of accusations and intrigue.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218418262/missing-tomato-international-space-station

Peek-a-bowl.

#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery #Handmade #Art #ceramic #artgallery #artmastodon

@madparreira.bsky.social

https://madalenaparreira.com

"We demonstrate a direct effect of ACh on worms, reducing their viability and fecundity via helminth muscarinic ACh receptors, with effects promoted by inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, an helminth-secreted enzyme."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.08.570757v1

From Benjamín Labatut's "The Maniac".

#book #Books #bookshelf #bookstodon

NPR: Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones following a poll on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218431610/elon-musk-restores-x-account-of-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones