Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

The antibodies E7, F1, & F5 cross neutralize both SARS-CoV-2 & animal sarbecoviruses w spike identities of only ~76%, but they have greatly reduced neutralization against newer SARS-CoV-2 variants (like XBB) even though XBB has >96% spike amino-acid identity to early SARS-CoV-2.

Great suggestions in this essay about "temporal displacement, time loops, time skips, time slips or parallel timelines." https://www.salon.com/2023/07/25/gotta-get-back-in-time-the-current-explosion-of-time-travel-novels-goes-beyond-sci-fi-and-fantasy/
If #time is of interest, you can check out a volume of essays I edited, published by #CambridgeUP, that takes up this issue in #US #literature from its #indigenous roots to #DonDeLillo, from the #SalemWitchTrials to the #graphic novel, #RichardMcGuire's #Here. I also wrote a book on #tempo(e)rality with, you guessed it, #Poe as the (wobbly) center.

For anyone new to Mastodon, or anyone who doesn't yet know: you can make keyword filters here!

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/

Is there some topic you hate seeing all the time that people don't cw? Twitter? Elon Musk? Climate change news? Republicans? Democrats? Transphobia? Filter it!

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/a-quick-guide-to-filters-on-mastodon/

'In 2022, all the glittering literary prizes went to indies – not only the Booker, but its sister prize for translated fiction, the International Booker, as well as the Nobel, the Goldsmiths, the Pulitzer and Australia’s A$100,000 (£80,000) Victorian prize for literature. The last four remarkably were all won by Fitzcarraldo, the UK home of celebrated French memoirist Annie Ernaux and foremost among a wave of new small publishers punching above their weight. What’s going on?'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/16/uk-indie-publishing-mavericks-shook-up-books-booker-nobel-fitzcarraldo-sort-of-books-daunt

“Imaginemos aquilo que não temos em Portugal: uma grande biblioteca pública de dimensão europeia e internacional, aberta a toda a gente, a todas as horas, prestando o serviço público que uma grande biblioteca pública hoje deve desempenhar.”

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/25/local/noticia/lisboa-quer-biblioteca-europeia-egide-eduardo-lourenco-2058129

'One reason books haven’t been particularly disruptable might be that many of the people looking to “fix” things couldn’t actually articulate what was broken—whether through their failure to see the real problems facing the industry (namely, Amazon’s stranglehold), or their insistence that books are not particularly enjoyable as a medium.'

https://www.wired.com/story/why-generative-ai-wont-disrupt-books/

'In an uncanny anticipation of his subsequent reception history, Johannes Vermeer made one of his first appearances in the printed record in the guise of a phoenix, the mythical bird that regenerates itself from its own ashes.'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/07/20/life-made-light-johannes-vermeer/

Everything, everywhere, all at once. The floods of 2023.
My interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on THE THREE AGES OF WATER.

https://thebulletin.org/2023/07/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-the-great-floods-of-2023/#post-heading

#BookReview
#HistoryOfLogic #HistoryOfMathematics #HistoryOfComputing
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/26/when-is-an-algorithm-not-an-algorithm/

The struggle is real! 😵‍💫

#bookstodon #writersofmastodon #books #writingcommunity #writerslife #bookworm

Albert Watson
Sinead O’Connor

'In Rwanda, where The New York Times has named President Paul Kagame “the global elite’s favorite strongman” because of his apparently brilliant record of economic growth, the government claimed that it had decreased poverty by 6 percent from 2010 to 2014. Researchers found that the inverse was true: Poverty had actually surged by 5 to 7 percent. Fittingly, the notion that Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time was a lie; he built ornate stations and invested in train lines used by elites, but the commuting masses got left behind.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/07/authoritarianism-dictatorship-effectiveness-china/674820/

First post of my summer blog series on image communication in (bio/med) publications!

Today: Many papers, many images, many problems (and some first solutions).

Why we should make sure our figure are understandable.

https://helenajamborwrites.netlify.app/posts/image_numbers/

RT @: We are looking for a post-doc and RA to work on an exciting project in prostate cancer investigating CAFs, ECM, spatial proteomics and more! @BevanLab @ImperialSandC Funded by @ProstateUK

http://imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/MED03982/post-doctoral-research-associate…

http://imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/MED03985/research-assistant…