Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Trump still doesn't understand how NATO works, he still thinks allies "owe us money" and he's now sending a signal to Russia to attack them while the crowd cheers. This is an invitation to Putin to broaden the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/11/donald-trump-says-he-would-encourage-russia-to-attack-nato-countries-who-dont-pay-bills

"When the spreadsheet launched in 1979, it was a bewildering piece of software. People had no idea what they were looking at. A computer screen, filled with a grid of numbers? As Keith Houston explains in his new history of the pocket calculator, Empire of the Sum, they hadn’t realised that the rows and columns of a spreadsheet could be functional rather than decorative."

https://www.ft.com/content/c5f7909f-0bac-40fa-b5a8-ff34c38b89a9

"Antivaccine perceived experts are therefore overrepresented on Twitter compared to the share of actual biomedical experts who oppose COVID-19 vaccines, which may lead observers to underestimate the scientific consensus in favor of COVID-19 vaccination, in turn reducing vaccine uptake"

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/2/pgae007/7601415?login=false#438996316

Cup & holder by @madparreira.bsky.social

#art #ceramics #stoneware #handmade #artgallery #pottery #ceramic #arts

https://madalenaparreira.com

"Jusqu'ici tout va bien"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/09/atlantic-ocean-circulation-nearing-devastating-tipping-point-study-finds

"Besides the common bedbug, Cimex lectularius, which has always made its home in the Northern Hemisphere, there are now sightings of its relative, the tropical bedbug, Cimex hemipterus, in temperate regions."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/bedbugs-pesticide-resistant-tropical/677415/

https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23February11
is the International Day of Women & Girls in Science!
The ERC is proud to have funded the research of 1,000's of women, including the recent
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23CrafoordPrize
winner for Mathematics (& its first ever female recipient): Claire Voisin
https://nitter.cz/CNRS
.
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23WomenInScience
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23WomenInSTEM

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ERC_Research/status/1756634230178849113#m

[2024-02-11 11:00 UTC]

"Some people can’t tolerate the side effects of the drugs and have to stop taking them. Others simply don’t respond. For some, the strength of the dose, or length of the treatment, does not seem to make a difference. Appetites might remain robust; the “food chatter” in the brain may stay noisy. Together, both groups of less successful GLP-1 users account for a not-insignificant share of patients on these drugs—potentially up to a third."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/02/ozempic-not-working-weight-loss/677411/

"The Times lost five hundred and forty-three million dollars in 2006. A couple of years later, the company borrowed some two hundred and twenty-five million dollars against its recently completed Times Square building. Only after launching a paywall, in 2011, did it find a path back to prosperity. But papers serving smaller markets never rebounded: between 2005 and 2024, roughly three thousand newspapers in the U.S. have closed."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

For those of you who wanted to see it, here is the whole finished Mevagissey print.

#mevagissey #cornwall #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #handprinted #handmade #PrintmakersOfMastodon

Untold History of AI: Invisible Women Programmed America's First Electronic Computer The “human computers” who operated ENIAC have received little credit.

By OSCAR SCHWARTZ via @ieeespectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/untold-history-of-ai-invisible-woman-programmed-americas-first-electronic-computer

There is an interesting series of 6 articles on "Untold History of AI":

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/AI-history

#science #computer #womeninscience

I've just realised that the #book "The ecological relations of roots" by John E. Weaver 1919 is fully available online! @internetarchive

With amazing & precise drawings of roots ...

https://archive.org/details/ecologicalrelati00weav/page/34/mode/2up

#PlantEcology #Roots @ecology @plants @botany @plantscience @nature @biodiversity

If elected, Trump will abandon NATO, with frightening consequences for American, European and Asian security, prosperity and trade
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2024-reelection-pull-out-of-nato-membership/676120/

PostDoc: Mechanisms and applications of bacterial immune systems

University of Pennsylvania

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-pennsylvania-27778-postdoc-mechanisms-and-applications-of-bacterial-immune-systems/?feed_id=71343

#biochemistry #bioinformatics #crispr #cryo_EM #RNA_binding_proteins #ScienceJobs #hirin...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-pennsylvania-27778-postdoc-mechanisms-and-applications-of-bacterial-immune-systems/?feed_id=71343

'Couple Cooling Off on a Garden Bench' - Shiba Kokan, 1772.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died #OTD in 2005.

In 1951 she started working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), where she was a member of its West Area Computing unit and Jackson’s supervisor was Dorothy Vaughan. Despite early promotions, she was denied management-level positions, and in 1979 she left engineering and took a demotion to become manager of the women’s program at NASA.

#science #aerospace #womeninscience