Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Borges kept his job as director of the National Library, and he became a professor of English at the University of Buenos Aires. But literature had become, for him, entirely oral.'

https://lithub.com/borges-dealt-with-his-anxiety-about-going-blind-by-learning-a-new-language

Germinal centers are a single malt topic.

**CALLING ALL FRIENDS, ADVOCATES, AND ACTIVISTS** A leaked e-mail from a Texas Department of Protective Safety trooper documents the remarkably cruel measures Governor Greg Abbott has instituted at the border to deter crossings. These include hidden razor wire traps, the withholding of water even in extreme heat, and orders to push migrants—including children and infants—back into the Rio Grande where they might drown. The sight of razor wire to corral innocent human beings has echoes for me personally, when similar wire surrounded the Japanese American internment camps of my youth. We cannot let Governor Greg Abbott get away with this. I'm calling on you, my friends, advocates and activists, to help put a stop to this by signing the petition demanding the Biden Administration puts an end to these inhumane practices against migrants in Texas.

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/806/513/820/?TAP=2430&source_id=TexasMigrants

Al Gore on Extreme Heat and the Fight Against Fossil Fuels https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/climate/al-gore-on-extreme-heat-and-the-fight-against-fossil-fuels.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Brazil’s Success in Preventing Malaria Relapse Using New Single-Dose Treatment

20/07/2023

Marcus Lacerda & Elodie Jambert

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/brazils-success-in-preventing-malaria-relapse/

#IDMastodon
#PublicHealth
#OneHealth

Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by U.K. Gas Lobby Group
https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/revealed-media-blitz-against-heat-pumps-funded-by-gas-lobby-group/

Energy and Utilities Association paid to generate 100s of articles/interviews to lobby on energy policy, subjecting heat pumps to intense criticism

Powered by electricity, heat pumps replace gas boilers which heat 85% of Britain’s homes & account for 15% of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide

#DeSmog #HeatPumps #GlobalWarming #lobbyists #UK #EnergyPolicy #GreenhouseGas

Biophysicists reveal how three #proteins interact to fine-tune #cellular #movement.

#acting #formin #twinfilin

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-biophysicists-reveal-proteins-interact-fine-tune.html

A call-to-arms from Adam Mastroianni - https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society

"I hereby invite every curious human to do science and post it on the internet.

Ask questions, collect data, write stuff, and make it available to everyone. You should feel as free to do and share research as you would feel uploading a video to YouTube or a song to Spotify.

You don’t actually need my or anyone else’s permission to do this, but sometimes people need a little encouragement, so: come on in!"

#ScienceMastodon

That didn't take long: Before 2018, #dengue outbreaks were sporadic on Reunion Island, a French territory off Africa. Dengue now appears to be endemic there. https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.29.2200769?emailalert=true

Yet another human embryo model joins the growing ranks. https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00794-8

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE

Scripps Research

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/postdoctoral-associate-3/?feed_id=51019

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
La Jolla #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/postdoctoral-associate-3/?feed_id=51019

This one hits hard. #climatechange

@WorldImagining @cyrilpedia

The Bear? Do recommend it.

Early days, but this is worth keeping an eye on:

"Other aspects of the donanemab trial are likely to be especially intriguing to Alzheimer’s experts. Patients stopped receiving donanemab and were switched to a placebo if their amyloid was cleared below a certain threshold. About half reached the threshold within a year, and their decline kept slowing even after they stopped receiving donanemab."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/health/alzheimers-drug-donanemab.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health