Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them
over 88 percent of top-ranked news outlets in the US now block web crawlers used by artificial intelligence
One sector of the news business is a glaring outlier, though: Right-wing media lags far behind their liberal counterparts when it comes to bot-blocking.
#news #media #bias #rightwing #leftwing #artificialintelligence #AI #GenAI #LLM #internet #webcrawler
https://www.wired.com/story/most-news-sites-block-ai-bots-right-wing-media-welcomes-them/
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Party of personal freedom strikes again!
The Florida Republican House passed HB1 which bans kids from social media
…though it’s intent is to make everyone register in order to track dissent
Don’t want kids posting about having to work a double shift while pregnant?
What’s more: The CDC reports 12 million people had suicidal ideation last year
3,351 Floridians ended their lives in 2021
LGBTQIA+? Higher risk
This bill removes their support network
Fascism
🇺🇸
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/e1/PDF
'Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria had whisked Dürer’s panel off to his private collection in Munich in 1614, just over a century after it was completed, arranging with the Dominicans for a copy to replace it. This copy is now in the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt, and although it lacks Dürer’s skilled brushwork and glorious colors, it allows us to see his design and in particular one daring, even shocking, detail. Just to the left of center Dürer painted his own portrait: an isolated figure in a recognizably German landscape, poised between the apostles looking up in awe and the Madonna floating above. He holds a board with “credits larger than a shop sign” declaring that he, Albrecht Dürer, had created this picture, ending with a large version of his monogram, “AD.”'
Jenny Uglow @nybooks
#Art #ArtHistory #Durer https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/in-search-of-the-rare-and-strange-durers-lost-masterpiece/
'Começam a faltar as palavras para descrever o funcionamento da FCT. Como se já não bastassem as taxas de aprovação infinitesimais dos projetos (apesar da contabilidade criativa usada para dourar a pílula), colossal desperdício de recursos de vária ordem, impera a navegação à vista, a desorganização e a desconsideração pelas horas de trabalho e pela vida dos milhares de cientistas, muitos deles com contratos a terminar e outros a tentar encontrar uma solução para o futuro próximo que, de forma mais ou menos direta, dela dependem.'
https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/04/opiniao/opiniao/afinal-serve-fundacao-ciencia-tecnologia-2078580
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"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road."
- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley
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"This nightmare illness doesn’t yet exist. But for inspiration, Napper needs to look only at the very real contagion in his own lab: chronic wasting disease (CWD), a highly lethal, highly contagious #NeurodegenerativeDisease that is devastating North America’s deer, elk, and other cervids."
#Prions
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Most species have two sexes. The protist Tetrahymena thermophila has seven.
This “fundamental” #ReviewedPreprint reveals how it recognises self and non-self mating-types with a novel protein complex. https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/93770?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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AI powered disinformation has consequences for our country.
#Canada #cdnpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-deepfake-election-canada-1.7084398
"Thompson was arguing against both the conservative view of class relations as describing “the harmonious coexistence of groups performing different ‘social roles’” and a form of economic determinism that imagines, as he put it later in an interview, that “some kind of raw material like peasants ‘flocking to factories’” could be “processed into so many yards of class-conscious proletarians”. For Thompson, the working class “made itself as much as it was made”. This idea of agency, of people, even in the most inauspicious circumstances, possessing the capacity to act on the world was central to his life work."
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What a legendary historian tells us about the contempt for today's working class | Kenan Malik
'Wednesday, Biogen said it's pulling all efforts from the first-of-its-kind anti-amyloid beta therapy to focus on Leqembi, its Eisai-partnered newer medicine, and its pipeline candidates. The newer drug, Leqembi, won a full FDA approval early last year, making the partners' marketing efforts on the therapy much simpler than was the case with Aduhelm.'
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"Overall, these data demonstrate that IL-15C treatment, via its induction of IL-10 from NK cells, modulates the dysregulated inflammation during Plasmodium infection to promote Tfh differentiation & Ab generation, correlating with improved survival from reinfection."
#Plasmodium #Malaria #InfectionImmunity #immunology
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Not great, but moving in the right direction:
"Esta foi a primeira vez em vários meses que a curva começou a inverter, registando-se um aumento (de 37% para 42%) dos inquiridos que defendem que Portugal deve acolher mais pessoas de fora da Europa. Paralelamente, foi também a primeira vez desde maio que a percentagem de inquiridos que se mostra anti-imigração desceu, passando de 61% para 55%."
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'The feverish pace of deforestation of the Bolsonaro years has slowed, dropping by 33.6 percent during the first six months after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known to all as Lula—was inaugurated president for his third term in 2023. But less has changed than those of us rooting for the survival of planet Earth might like: the local dynamics, the destructive ways of making money from the rainforest, the permissiveness and lawlessness have remained the same.'
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/22/the-forest-eaters-banzeiro-okoto-eliane-brum/
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Without access to a lab, without university support, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (born on this day in 1867) revolutionized our understanding of how intelligence and emotion evolved in his exquisite experiments with bees and ants https://t.co/BD8Ml3MFD1 #BlackHistoryMonth
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“If you have growing numbers of researchers who are being strongly incentivised to publish just for the sake of publishing, while we have a growing number of journals making money from publishing the resulting articles, you have a perfect storm,” said Professor Marcus Munafo of Bristol University. “That is exactly what we have now.”
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Cancer knows no age, no gender, no border.
This #WorldCancerDay, we continue to turn the tide by reducing inequalities and making a difference to the lives of everyone affected by cancer.
This week, we proposed a recommendation on vaccine-preventable cancers.
🎗️Notably, it focuses on boosting the uptake of vaccinations against viral infections Human papillomavirus and Hepatitis B that may lead to cancer.
More → https://europa.eu/!H93DpQ
'In Europe — where Wegovy is not yet generally available in public health systems — 80 per cent of sales are paid for personally by consumers, with the remainder reimbursed by health insurance or states. In the US, more than 90 per cent of sales are completely or partially covered by health insurance, the company said.'
https://www.ft.com/content/bbbe8543-263c-4e5b-a567-2ef05f2b3138
"Base editing has arrived on the cellular immunotherapy scene, allowing the simultaneous manipulation of numerous genes—and bringing with it promising proof-of-concept data among the first patients who received the technology."
Ceci n'est pas un spreadsheet.
"A restaurant would not serve you a photo of the meal you ordered. If you have a spreadsheet, why would you save it as an image file? Not being able to copy and paste data or to clearly read it decreases the possibility of curation. Again, this can be solved simply by paying attention to proper formatting."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002477
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
