Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Canada doesn’t have to worry about supplying nearly as much infant care precisely because the majority of Canadian infants are being cared for at home by their parents for the first year of their life.”

The U.S. must prioritize better paid leave policies for parents. https://www.vox.com/24002791/child-care-daycare-canada-parenting-children-policy

Important new paper from #Chris Stringer and #RainerGrun on sorting out the hominin fossil record by accurate dating.

Blog here, paper linked below 👇

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2023/december/better-fossil-dating-could-help-clear-up-human-evolution.html

Robert Millikan American physicist died #OTD in 1953. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

The beauty of the oil-drop experiment is that as well as allowing quite accurate determination of the fundamental unit of charge, Millikan's apparatus also provided a 'hands on' demonstration that charge is actually quantized. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering organisation which supported gay and trans rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned

Microproteins—Discovery, structure, and function https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmic.202100211?af=R

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#proteomics #prot-paper

One way to be response to infectious disease outbreaks - #vaccinate. Here antibody titres after 2 dose #vaccination for Polio: interval between vaccine doses can be as short as a week (blue group) vs 2 (red) vs 4 (green) week gap.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00519-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
#IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #microbiology #medicine

"Here, we leveraged recent advances in ribosome profiling and MS to investigate the factors limiting detection of noncanonical proteins in yeast. We show that the low detection rate of noncanonical ORF products can largely be explained by small size and low translation levels and does not indicate that they are unstable or biologically insignificant."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002409

Finally got to know I3S Porto! A discussion of scientific publication & communication during the first year of the pandemic that could have gone on much longer. Thanks to Perpetua Pinto-do-Ó & Margarida Saraiva for the invitation.

Elon Musk’s X investigated by EU over lax moderation of “illegal content”

EU probes disinformation, election policy, Community Notes, and paid checkmarks.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/elon-musks-x-investigated-by-eu-over-lax-moderation-of-illegal-content/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Retinas in awake mice respond more quickly and strongly than isolated tissue samples, highlighting the importance of studying them in live animals. #Neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/digests/78005/the-eye-of-the-beholder?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Thanks to @ProPublica, the SCOTUS hits keep coming: “Interviews and newly unearthed documents reveal that Thomas, facing financial strain, privately pushed for a higher salary and to allow Supreme Court justices to take speaking fees.”

RNA vax for RSV

"Vaccine efficacy was 83.7% (95.88% confidence interval [CI], 66.0 to 92.2) against RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease with at least two signs or symptoms and 82.4% (96.36% CI, 34.8 to 95.3) against the disease with at least three signs or symptoms."

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2307079?query=featured_home

"Lunch—dinner, drinks, any occasion—with Christopher always was. One of our lunches, at Café Milano, the Rick’s Café of Washington, began at 1 p.m., and ended at 11:30 p.m.At about nine o’clock (though my memory is somewhat hazy), he said, “Should we order more food?” I somehow crawled home, where I remained under medical supervision for several weeks, packed in ice with a morphine drip. Christopher probably went home that night and wrote a biography of Orwell. His stamina was as epic as his erudition and wit."
(Via The Browser)

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/postscript-christopher-hitchens-1949-2011?ref=thebrowser.com

“We do a poor job of getting it to adults who need the medications, but a tragic job of getting it to all of the youth that need them.”

Treatment with drugs such as buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone is deemed the gold standard for youth with opioid addictions. Why isn’t it used more often?

Learn more about medications for opioid use disorder and adolescents in our report, republished by #BrainFacts: https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/therapies/2023/medications-for-opioid-use-disorder-moud-and-adolescents-121323

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#MentalHealth
#Addiction