Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Meanwhile, at the Bad Place

'The former NBCUniversal advertising head, who started as chief executive on June 5, is seeking to launch full-screen, sound-on video ads that would be shown to users scrolling through Twitter’s new short-video feed, according to three people familiar with the situation.'

https://www.ft.com/content/5a792427-5ca0-48f8-a459-c704036d1d35

Foundational and I'd say still unsurpassed as a history of the birth of molecular biology.

'Around that time, the late 1970s and very early 1980s, I became much more interested in nonfiction, especially nonfiction about science, and found myself reviewing such books for The Christian Science Monitor: the letters of Robert Oppenheimer, for instance, and a book of memoirs by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, and a magnificent book (more magnificent than I was capable of appreciating then) on the foundational history of molecular biology, The Eighth Day of Creation, by Horace Freeland Judson.'

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/06/24/who-swims-with-the-scientist-david-quammen/

'La inmensa mayoría de los físicos e ingenieros que participaron en el proyecto Manhattan eran pacifistas, progresistas y ninguno creía que la bomba se fuera a lanzar contra la población civil. Algunos de ellos, cuando entrevieron las intenciones de los militares y el presidente Truman, pagaron su oposición con algo más que represalias.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-06-29/lo-que-se-debe-o-no-descubrir.html

New posting! This one is about the number of unpaid hours in #academia, an insight that's come from the realisation of how much time I'm still committing despite now (currently) being unemployed. To what extent is academic research sustained by the massive expenditure of unpaid labour? How much unpaid overtime do you think you're clocking? Let's lift the lid...

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/06/29/pro-bono-a-riff-on-unpaid-labour-in-academia/

#GRCdevbio23: @Wilcocksonscott from the Hill at @thecrick discusses the role of signalling in mesendoderm.

The Hill lab is broadly interested in TGFβ signalling, and you can see the pathway at a glance in this @Dev_journal poster from Anming Meng
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.188490

@Nature The safest strategy for #COVID19 & other variable 🦠 is to use combinations of #antibodies. It would be even better to use combinations of multispecific antibodies that recognize antigenic regions under minimal immune pressure, because those are the regions that are least likely to mutate .the perspectives view of the Drug maker - Laura Walker
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02125-3?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1688041689

O FMI avisou que, para controlar a inflação, as empresas teriam de aceitar uma compressão das margens de lucro (que causaram 1/2 da inflação desde 2021). Para o BCE, são os trabalhadores que põem a economia em perigo com o aumento dos salários, “obrigando” a subir taxas de juro. https://t.co/zS33wFbhZj

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1674365648460214273

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows!
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Chenyue's research interest lies in scholarly communication where she studies research data sharing and reuse.

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“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

-James Baldwin

No other country followed Thatcher’s privatisation of our water industry. You can see why. Poor services. Poor investment. High prices. Sewage dumped in our water systems. Huge payouts to executives and corporate shareholders for failure and now the prospect of UK taxpayers bailing out a failing water firm owned by China and Abu Dhabi

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In their #OpenAccess article, Nevena Stajković, Ivana Nikić-Spiegel & colleagues describe their novel approach for live labelling large neuronal transmembrane proteins & ion channels in primary neurons using unnatural amino acids & click chemistry.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/12/jcs260600/320411/Direct-fluorescent-labeling-of-NF186-and-NaV1-6-in

To find out more about this research, check out the ‘First person’ interview with Nevena Stajković:
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/12/jcs261396/320410/First-person-Nevena-Stajkovic