Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

That's a bingo:

'O problema não está em que haja presença partidária e marca partidária na governação, está na cada vez maior desqualificação e mediocridade do pessoal político nos partidos. E como são o que são, desertificam tudo à sua volta.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/04/08/opiniao/opiniao/mediocridade-falabaratismo-absoluta-ausencia-sentido-estado-2045390

'The study, published in the journal Nature, focused on swabs taken from surfaces in early 2020 at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, a large market where many of the earliest known Covid patients had worked or shopped. The Chinese scientists had posted an early version of their genetic analysis of those samples in February 2022, but at the time downplayed the possibility of animal infections at the market.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/science/china-virus-origins-racoon-dogs.html?

'Rich with words and references from Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures, the modernist novel was hailed as a classic upon its publication in 1928, and has long been seen as an allegory for Brazil’s unique cultural blend. Faced with criticism of the book’s uncredited reliance on anthropological research, Andrade offered up, in an open letter, a typically insouciant response: “I copied Brazil.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/books/mario-de-andrade-macunaima-apprentice-tourist.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Books

'Many art experts say Lichtenstein’s use of source comics was fair appropriation. Yet Eisman, 96, who lives in New Jersey, tells The Washington Post by email: “I’d say it’s theft.” He hopes people will watch the documentary and see it as evenhanded, intended to represent both sides with the aim to let “the viewers make up their own minds and not just leave it to the so-called experts.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/05/roy-lichtenstein-documentary/

'Home Office rejection letters issued to the three children and seen by the Financial Times, state that even though the children were part of a fully-sponsored tour, the visa officers did not believe them. Applicants are not allowed to appeal against the decision.'

https://www.ft.com/content/65905653-5c2f-4247-81e3-73140dceae8a

'In this Primer, we outline the current understanding of #chikungunya fever based on research in patients and animal models, which have provided considerable insights into the complex spectrum of disease manifestations and the mediators of arthritic immunopathology.'

#Immunology #virology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-023-00429-2

This strategy worked pretty well in Brazil, where they were referred to as 'sandwich PhDs'. The difficulty was providing good conditions for people to thrive locally after their PhDs. But it should also be noted that, in the case of the researchers who ultimately stayed or returned to institutions abroad, it also provided a great mentoring network for the next generation of students, as well as a valuable resource for the local scientific community through consortia, collaborations, reagent sharing, etc.

“Most PhDs focus on the individual, but in this programme, the focus was on building institutional capacity at Makerere,” Waiswa says. “The research you do was also meant to be aligned to national development priorities.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00956-8