Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

‘We should have followed up’: Lancet journal retracts article on hearing aids and dementia after prodding – Retraction Watch

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/01/04/we-should-have-followed-up-lancet-journal-retracts-article-on-hearing-aids-and-dementia-after-prodding/

#auditory #science

It's the time of the year for picking the top science stories of 2023. There were triumphs, yes. But for my newsletter, I picked a different kind of story: the struggle to bring back the American chestnut tree, and what it really takes to address the extinction crisis. https://buttondown.email/carlzimmer/archive/fridays-elk-december-29-2023/

@anneapplebaum

Republican billionaire donors, foreign & domestic, fund Trumpism.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/07/22/these-billionaires-are-funding-legislators-who-refused-to-certify-the-election/?sh=1a5bc0f9bf78

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/29/1125859539/casino-mogul-steve-wynn-is-fighting-a-doj-demand-that-he-register-as-a-foreign-a

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2019/12/14/sheldon-adelson-trump-macau/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/steve-bannon-guo-wengui/2020/09/13/8b43cd06-e964-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/how-a-tycoon-linked-to-chinese-intelligence-became-a-darling-of-trump-republicans

A Trump win means huge gains for organized crime and the gambling/gaming industry.

Foreign policy corrupted by sports betting interests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/23/trumps-call-for-chinese-dissident-to-be-deported-based-on-beijing-letter-report

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”

Alan Watts, born on this day in 1915, on our search for meaning and the antidote to our existential loneliness: https://t.co/p8MYofr7Bw

Here is the CDC's updated COVID wastewater map.

Every single state that is reporting data is at very high or high levels.

15 states are not reporting data (or are too slow to report data).

A male Alpine ibex stands in front of Mont Aiguille in the French Alps

Am reading “Palestinian Walks. Notes on a vanishing landscape” by Raja Shehadeh at the moment (a Christmas present). Through the deceptively simple device of 7 walks taken over 27 years near his home town Ramallah, he offers a way into SO much (devastating) history. Also love it as it combines #PoliticalEcology with #HistoricalEcology - just my thing. A beautiful book, really recommend it. #Gaza #Palestine #Bookstodon #Walks

"Until Substack, I was not aware of any major US consumer internet platform that stated it would not remove or even demonetize Nazi accounts... The Nazis did not commit the only atrocity in history, but a platform that declines to remove their supporters is telling you something important about itself.

If it won’t remove the Nazis, why should we expect the platform to remove any other harm?" @caseynewton https://www.platformer.news/p/why-substack-is-at-a-crossroads

The role of #chemokines in #cancer and #ImmuneCell organization within tissues nicely summarised here... @cyrilpedia @gpollara

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41568-023-00635-w

It's extremely dangerous to let these private equity firms buy up swaths of homes.

"Brain size scaling through development in the whitelined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) shows mass and cell number comparable to flies, bees, and wasps", by Isabel Aksamit et al. 2023 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1467803923000968

Just as I was reminded of Suzana Herculano-Houzel's measurements of the number of cells across various vertebrate groups, the very abstract of this paper mentions the "isotropic fractionation" method invented by her.

#entomology #moths #Lepidoptera #neuroscience

Big evolutionary change tied to lots of small differences

Lots of genes changed as a species of snail went from laying eggs to live births.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/big-evolutionary-change-tied-to-lots-of-small-differences/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US | University of Oxford

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us

🇪🇸Spain: "5 Spanish regions have announced the reintroduction of rules making the use of face masks compulsory in health facilities following a spike in flu and COVID-19 cases over the festive season."

#COVID19 #Flu #Spain #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/spanish-regions-reintroduce-mask-wearing-medical-centres-amid-flu-spike-2024-01-05/