Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Mark Powell’s Pen Drawings Accentuate the Memories Etched into Faces and Ephemera https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/mark-powell-pen-portraits/

If you're in Berlin:

"The show, “Josephine Baker: Icon in Motion,” which runs through April 28, is a small but dense and deeply imaginative reconsidering of her life and work. The museum’s director, Klaus Biesenbach (formerly of MoMA and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) has curated the show with the artist Kandis Williams, the scholar Terri Francis and the curator Mona Horncastle: The result emphasizes the importance of multiple interpretations."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/arts/design/josephine-baker-exhibition-berlin.html

'Embora bom e barato seja um objetivo apelativo, não é realista querermos investigação científica de qualidade e, ao mesmo tempo, não investirmos de forma consequente nesse desígnio. Seguramente que os recursos destinados ao SNCT têm necessariamente de ser adequados à realidade do país, mas se este investimento for demasiado curto, imprevisível e mal estruturado dificilmente pode originar os retornos que queremos.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/01/31/ciencia/opiniao/omeletes-ovos-ciencia-portugal-2077903

'The technology may transform agriculture in LMICs beyond the genomic level: local farmers seem happy, Runo told the journal Nature, to source seeds from regional researchers rather than multinationals. The global spread of gene-editing technology may end up dispersing the commercial power currently concentrated in corporate labs — and raises the prospect of African-grown gene-edited crops being sold beyond the continent.'

https://www.ft.com/content/10a7cd0c-78f0-409a-9808-a71a11e7b46a

People should be aware that "stingless bees" doesn't mean these are nice bees.

Stingless bees don't sting, that's true. They just crawl up your nose and into your ears and bite until you no longer function like a normal human being.

If you see me running at great speed through the Amazon forest, it's usually because I'm trying to get away from the stingless bees.

"Stingless bees are native to the Amazon, unlike the more familiar but invasive honey bees from Africa and Europe that have spread through the Americas. The most obvious difference, perhaps, is that stingless bees don’t sting. Their honey, which is runny enough to be drunk like a liquid and is said to have a citrusy aftertaste, is used by many Indigenous Peruvians as a natural medicine." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/science/amazon-stingless-bees-honey.html

Stefanie Lubke et al (Philipps University Marburg) found that the Drosophila GEF Schizo interacts with Abi to antagonize Schizo function and to inhibit the removal of N-cadherin during embryogenesis.
Read the full paper: https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/13/1/bio058666/340227

Musk makes big claims with little detail, and announcing on Twitter that Neuralink implanted a brain-computer interface into a person “is maybe the biggest example of that.” Here's what we do & don't know, from actual BCI experts https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon-musks-neuralink-has-implanted-its-first-chip-in-a-human-brain-whats-next/

Protein Tracking: Everything, everywhere, almost at once. https://elifesciences.org/articles/95362?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights

All are welcome to our free community resource for tracking, comparing & understanding U.S. federal funder requirements for sharing research articles & research data. #OpenAccess #OpenData. Click here to compare policies by agency: https://researchsharing.sparcopen.org/articles/

“The purveyors of #disinformation capitalize on this illusion of intellectual autonomy. Individuals who believe that they can rely solely on their own wits are vulnerable to the use of misleading, cherry-picked evidence. They are susceptible to plausible but ill-informed arguments. Such tactics have entered a recurring playbook for spreading scientific disinformation” https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/111849041896938130

Deep learning for protein structure prediction and design—progress and applications
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44320-024-00016-x

Big welcome (back) to @bevil!

While he won't throw it in your face, know that Bevil is a super-star brain researcher AND an artist AND he doesn't just wear those two hats - he works at the intersection. For instance, here's a picture of Bevil and Alan Alda celebrating color:
https://bevilconway.com/?page_id=1293
On the first, he has opinions! ... Especially about how to make science a better an more equitable place. No doubt he'll find a home here; I highly recommended this follow.

https://bevilconway.com/

I can’t believe I’m having to write this but please don’t let Elon Musk anywhere near your brain.

Polar bears are iconic symbols of climate change. Who hasn't seen the near-cliche image of a bear standing on a tiny ice floe?

These animals' ambassadorial status and powerful emotional resonance attract cherry-picking hair-splitting climate change deniers in droves. Our first debunking of this drivel was published in 2009.

Freshly revised for the 4th time, this time with our "at a glance" treatment. How does it work for you? Let us know!

#ClimateMythDebunking
https://skepticalscience.com/polar-bears-global-warming.htm?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks