Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

In cultured cells, mitochondria maintain temperatures of up to 15°C above their environment adjusting their heat production in the face of physiological stresses. https://elifesciences.org/articles/89232?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

'iBiology Courses, designed by Science Communication Lab, is a no-cost resource that provides full courses to life science trainees on the process and practice of science, as well as related content for educators to use in their own classrooms and training programs.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002458

Group leader in Integrative Structural Biology

CNRS

Don't miss the chance to create your own group of Structural Biology in the outstanding and stimulating research environment of the IPBS-Toulouse

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cnrs-27778-group-leader-in-integrative-structural-biology/?feed_id=70305

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cnrs-27778-group-leader-in-integrative-structural-biology/?feed_id=70305

TAS weekly COVID update: 12 Jan to 18 Jan

🔹New cases: 698 (-209)
🔹Deaths: 1 (-1)
🔹Total deaths: 345 (+1)
🔹Hospital: 32 (-19)
🔹ICU: 2 (+1)

🔸Cases numbers ⬇️DOWN 23% compared to the previous week.

#COVID19TAS @auscovid19

Source: https://health.tas.gov.au/health-topics/coronavirus-covid-19/current-risk-level-and-statistics/weekly-statistics

'Neuroscientist Anita Lüthi would like to see future studies elucidate how the PV neurons decrease brain connectivity without shutting it down completely. “Sleep is not a coma; we are not totally knocked out,” says the University of Lausanne-based researcher. Perhaps there’s a parallel system that keeps some basal connectivity intact, she hypothesizes. Dan says the work is also getting a lot of attention from anesthesiologists, who are interested in knowing how the brain’s response to different forms of anesthesia compares to its response to sleep.'

https://www.pnas.org/post/journal-club/mouse-study-sheds-light-brain-powers-down

After a month-long hiatus, @evodevo_papers has resumed posting the latest #EvoDevo papers!

I re-wrote the backend to be more robust and flexible. For now, only the basic functionality is restored: fetching articles from a few journal feeds and tooting them once a day.

Note that the posts are unlisted and won't show up in public timelines or hashtag searches.

So, please boost the papers you find worth sharing! It's the only way they can reach people who don't follow the account.

Hans Kluge (WHO/Europe) just killed the concept of public, I repeat, *public* health.

He should resign IMHO.

#OTD 18 January 1689 Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu was born. Montesquieu's political writings, particularly on the separation of powers, became hugely influential on modern global governments, with the US first adopting them for the Constitution.

The Failed Promise of Independent Election Mapmaking
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In Washington and other states, independent redistricting commissions have fallen prey to partisanship, just like the legislative bodies they were meant to replace.

#Voting #VotingRights #Washington #Elections

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-failed-promise-of-independent-election-mapmaking?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Giving Drunk UK Man a run for his money...

"A drunk US man allegedly bit the arm of a flight attendant on a passenger jet headed to Seattle from Tokyo on Tuesday night, forcing the plane’s return to the Japanese capital, according to local reports."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/man-bites-flight-attendant-tokyo-plane

Preprint learning moment.

Much alarmist press on this preprint. But the TLDR from people who actually know is a) it's an existing virus already reported in other papers b) these mice often die when exposed to viruses of this type (they are engineered to have high levels of ACE2 in the brain) i.e. it's the mice not the virus.

Whether it's a good/bad paper is another question, but "motivated takes and misunderstanding" not "OMG military virus" seems the lesson http://disq.us/p/2xbrwu4

R to @ERC_Research: Over 2023's three #ERCPoC competition rounds, 240 projects received a total of €36 million in top-up innovation funding.

What are the projects about?

So many interesting investigations...we describe three to give you a taste.

👉 https://europa.eu/!HcjPbq

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ERC_Research/status/1747947278114136125#m

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