Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"The rationale for such policies is founded on observations that, on average, men and women differ in the incidence and presentation of disease, risk factors for disease, treatment response and adverse drug reactions, as well as on the belief that similar, undiscovered differences may be widespread"

https://elifesciences.org/articles/90623?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

"For the AfD, whose leaders have made openly antisemitic statements and endorsed the revival of Nazi-era nationalist language, the spectre of antisemitism is a perfect, cynically wielded political instrument, both a ticket to the political mainstream and a weapon that can be used against Muslim immigrants."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust

Margaret Cavendish English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright died #OTD in 1673. Her utopian romance The Blazing World is one of the earliest examples of science fiction. She was unusual in her time for publishing extensively in natural philosophy and early modern science, producing over a dozen original works; with her revised works the total came to 21. via @wikipedia

Books by Margaret Cavendish at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554

#books #literature

The chicken came first. Prato falante.
Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#art #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

Worm tools:

"A bipartite cGAL-UAS system has been previously developed to study tissue- or cell-specific functions in C. elegans. Here, we report a toolkit of new cGAL drivers that can facilitate the analysis of a vast majority of the 60 sensory neurons in C. elegans hermaphrodites."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221680120

"Dr. Cohen is taking over an agency that is in transition. Her predecessor, Dr. Walensky, who began serving at the start of the Biden administration and stepped down in June, commissioned a review of the C.D.C. that identified serious weaknesses in areas ranging from testing to data collection to communications. She then initiated an overhaul of the agency."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/mandy-cohen-cdc-director.html

Here’s a nice post from @Ruth_Mottram, a climate scientist, as an #Introduction to Mastodon. Other scientists from disciplines you may have an interest in can be found by following the ‘Published’ links embedded here https://toot.cat/@Hashtags/110413239368701976

From: @Ruth_Mottram
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111178432396674023

Don't ever believe anyone saying it's Jews vs Arabs

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

"El caso que ha publicado este diario ilustra bien el mayor fallo de seguridad conocido hasta ahora en este terreno. En septiembre pasado, un grupo de piratas informáticos se infiltró en las bases de datos de 23andMe, una de las mayores firmas del sector, y robó los perfiles genéticos de cuatro millones de personas."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2023-12-15/datos-geneticos-sin-proteccion.html

December 16, 1921, died #OTD, French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era Camille Saint-Saëns. In his "Le Carnaval des animaux" (1922) a movement is dedicated to the Fossils 🦴

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcAJpsWWuIY

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN - Ken Lab

Scripps Research

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-technician-ken-lab/?feed_id=68028

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-technician-ken-lab/?feed_id=68028

New FlyBook chapter:
Centromere structure and function: lessons from Drosophila https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/225/4/iyad170/7336826

"The FDA believes this wasn't just a matter of poor hygiene at the factory. The lead was deliberately added to the cinnamon. They say it was "economically motivated," a way of making the cinnamon cheaper.
This is remarkable. A pouch of applesauce contains something like one gram of cinnamon, which costs less than a quarter of a cent on the global market. But it's cheaper to use less cinnamon and make up the weight with lead?
What's even worse is that the FDA suspects this is a routine practice—but only for cinnamon shipped to poor countries. It was only caught this time because the cinnamon supplier screwed up and accidentally delivered a tainted batch for applesauce that was destined for the US, where we have the ability to detect lead contamination. Everyone else is out of luck."
FDA: Applesauce was deliberately tainted with lead https://jabberwocking.com/fda-applesauce-was-deliberately-tainted-with-lead/