Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Quammen, 74, is the favorite science writer of many people who don’t usually read science writing. He also happens to be the favorite science writer of many science writers, a foundational figure. Among the kinds of people who cover anything from space telescopes to treatment-resistant bacteria, Quammen is a writer to geek out over."

#SciComm #Books #DavidQuammen

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/11/david-quammen-breathless-covid-science-book/672151/

"A week later the phone rang and I was told that I had a cancer of the testicles that had spread to a lymph node and to one lung. Instead of seeing the urologist, I would now need to see an oncologist. For a few days I comforted myself by pretending that, because of my abiding interest in the mysteries and niceties of Being, I had to see an ontologist. Nobody except one of my fellow Irish novelists thought this was funny. "

#books #ColmToibin

'In his biography of Farmer, “Mountains Beyond Mountains,” from 2003, Tracy Kidder noted that even as tuberculosis killed more adults than any other disease in Haiti, not a single person had died of it since 1988 in the P.I.H. hospital that served a desperately poor rural area with a population of about 100,000 people. Protocols the group developed in Peru for successfully treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis were adopted globally.'

#PublicHealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/charity-holiday-gift-partners-in-health.html

Really cool work in #Immunity by Annika Frede, Eduardo Villablanca et al. using a mouse DSS model of intestinal damage

"Although neutrophils and monocytes expanded transiently during the inflammatory process, B cells continued to expand during the recovery phase, becoming the most dominant cell type within the colon LP. Using flow cytometry, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), immunofluorescence, and RNAscope, we identified an interferon (IFN)-induced B cell subtype that accumulates in damaged areas of the regenerating colon. B cell depletion (BCD) during the recovery phase enhanced tissue repair and a transcriptomic program associated with the extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. "

#MucosalImmunology #Immunology #TissueRepair #IBD #Colitis

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(22)00592-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1074761322005921%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

'It’s this kind of libertarianism—the you-do-you ethos of American culture that sees the “public” in public health as anathema, clinging to a medical model of private risk and private cures—that dropped us down to the 40s in global life expectancy rankings before the pandemic, and will land us below the 60s by 2040. “Give me liberty and give me death” is the reigning mantra of America today.'
@gregggonsalves

#PublicHealth

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-health-covid-pandemic/

"Logbooks, like the nearly 200-page document kept aboard the Eunice H. Adams, served as legal reports, necessary for insurance claims, which meant log keepers kept exhaustive records of the crew’s day-to-day exploits. They tracked the ship’s location, other vessels encountered, and both weather and sea conditions along the routes they sailed. But they also kept clues for the future: Stored within the pages of the 18th and 19th-century whaling logbooks is a cache of ancient weather records, meticulously logged by crews traversing the world’s oceans. "

https://grist.org/article/how-centuries-old-whaling-logs-are-filling-gaps-in-our-climate-knowledge/?ref=the-browser

'The flexible and reversible nature of their reproductive strategies makes facultatively social insects ideal models for understanding the emergence of the simplest forms of reproductive caste (Kronauer & Libbrecht 2018; Shell & Rehan 2018). For example, facultatively social bee taxa have been used to provide evidence for ‘molecular ground plan’ hypotheses (Kapheim et al. 2012, 2020), and to test the long-standing sociogenomic prediction that queen-biased genes should be relatively ancient and conserved compared to worker-biased genes (Jones et al. 2017).'

#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.02.518827v1?med=mas