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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French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died #OTD in 1650.
He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia
Books by René Descartes at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44
A bad outbreak of #dengue in Brazil - and a warning that climate change is shifting the vector's range.
"The World Health Organization has warned that dengue is rapidly becoming an urgent global health problem, with a record number of cases last year and outbreaks in places, such as France, that have historically never reported the disease."
#Virology #InfectiousDisease #climatechange
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/health/dengue-brazil-americas.html
"Acham que tudo se resolve com cheques. [...] Cheques em vez de serviços de saúde de qualidade, cheques em vez de escolas com professores, cheques em vez de casas que as pessoas possam pagar, cheques para as construtoras, cheques para os intermediários, cheques para os grupos milionários da saúde, cheques para os fundos imobiliários. Um livro inteiro de cheques para benefícios fiscais aos grandes grupos económicos", elencou.'
https://www.dn.pt/6602291351/coordenadora-do-be-apela-a-encontro-de-posicoes-a-esquerda/
'A maturidade da esquerda passa, no entender de @ruitavares, por "saber que não vai governar sozinha, mas sim com a sociedade civil", abrindo um debate nacional sobre o futuro do país, acrescentando "aos Três D" do 25 de Abril (Democratizar, Descolonizar, Desenvolver), outros dois: os do dinamismo e da dignidade".
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Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills
<< this is why #Europe needs to be able to handle its own #defence. Europe will also pivot away from America and towards China if Trump gets in.
A nativist Trump-led America would be no friend of Europe.
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... too many patients are catching the virus — and an alarming number are dying ...
... 5,614 people were suspected to have caught COVID in Victorian public hospitals between 2020 and April 2023, with more than one in 10 confirmed or suspected to have died as a result of their infection.
"These are preventable infections and therefore preventable deaths ..."
"What we're seeing at the moment is the 'Robodebt' of medicine," Dr Miller says. "The institutional turning-a-blind-eye toward a disease that we know is wreaking havoc within our hospitals — and the permissive nature in which we're allowing patients to catch it — will be regarded as a 'Robodebt' style failure of public health policy, in my opinion."
"We've been living with it for some time but we know that COVID is not a simple respiratory illness, it's a multi-system inflammatory illness that needs to be taken seriously,"
#AusPol #COVID
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/patients-catching-covid-hospitals-australia-infection-control/103442806
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Yikes. Tom Nichols is not pulling any punches in this one.
If Russia Wins
Republican obstructionism could lead to global disaster.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/02/if-russia-wins/677398/
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One Tokyo ward has begun testing an unprecedented project to combat rats using garbage bags infused with the smell of certain herbs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/11/japan/society/herbs-smell-garbage-bags-rats/ #japan #society #chiyodaward #tokyo #rats
'These results support the hypothesis that mating behaviors in hermaphrodites are not merely degenerate female behaviors but instead enhance their genetic fitness: young hermaphrodites minimize genetic dilution by avoiding mating while self-sperm are present but can then increase total progeny number by allowing cross-fertilization after self-sperm are depleted'
#Celegans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224000873
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Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a perversion of history | Kenan Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/denouncing-critics-of-israel-as-un-jews-or-antisemites-is-a-perversion-of-history
'Imagine my surprise when I received reviews on a submitted paper declaring that it was the work of ChatGPT. One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual”. Surprise was just one emotion I experienced; I also felt shock, dismay and a flood of confusion and alarm. Given how much work I put into writing, it was a blow to be accused of being a chatbot — especially without any evidence.'
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'By then, Einstein was public enemy No 1 in Germany. In May 1933, a brochure entitled Jews Are Watching You accused Einstein of “lying atrocity propaganda against Adolf Hitler”. Under his picture, it stated: “Not yet hanged.”
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"This raises the question of why so many pathways that react to the challenge of infection or tissue injury use mitochondria as a central signalling hub to integrate and transduce the cell’s response. One probable factor is that the endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria marks them apart from the rest of the cell in a way that can be co-opted to produce key messages pertaining to cell fate"
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#Germany is testing a four day workweek in an effort to address its labor shortage problem. People might be more willing to work if they are able to conduct personal business and spend less on childcare. #1u https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tests-four-day-workweek-amid-labor-shortage/a-68125506?ref=futurecrunch.com
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@cyrilpedia interesting ... this line of research has some tradition.
"Here, we review the impact of nutrient uptake and IEC metabolism on gut inflammation and tumorigenesis and discuss how epithelial metabolism affects host–microbe commensalism in mammals. We propose that specific insights into epithelial immunometabolism will allow for the development of novel therapies for human IBD and CRC."
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Justice Alito's 'mob-like threat' during Trump hearing singled out by legal experts https://www.rawstory.com/sam-alito-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news
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New study on AMOC collapse has been published (see:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189 ).
The following links give good overall summary of the study and it's impacts (links in reply posts below) 1/n
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
