Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

@cyrilpedia 4,800. So many.

The International #BrainBee 2023 World Championship starts today! Don't miss the exciting student competition! You can watch live at www.thebrainbee.org.

@luckytran

1.17 million Americans died from the covid disinformation campaigns funded by Republican billionaire donors.

How many billions will die because they thwarted climate action and condemned the planet to an uninhabitable fate?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/21/koch-funded-litigation-group-fights-to-protect-covid-misinformation/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen

"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world . . . a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing."

I reviewed the Bird & Sherwin biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2005:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2005/04/10/fallout/cf4054f0-92d1-4d59-bf13-0b0701dcdf12/

#Oppenheimer

Free speech Elon is at it again - X threatens to sue non-profit The Center for Countering Digital Hate, in a blatant attempt to shut them up. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

Mosquitoes that carry West Nile are becoming resistant to insecticides, CDC says

NBC News got rare access to the federal health agency's insect lab in Colorado where scientists study the spread of mosquitoes and the illnesses they carry.

"At CDC's insect lab located in Fort Collins, Colorado — home to tens of thousands of mosquitoes — Connelly's team has found that Culex mosquitoes are living longer when they're exposed to insecticides."

#insects #mosquitoes #WestNile

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mosquitoes-carry-west-nile-are-becoming-resistant-insecticides-cdc-say-rcna96867

RT @: Always good to see new #massspec tools available.Dear #proteomicscommunity and #TeamMassSpec, I am happy to share HowDirty, an R package that facilitates evaluating and reporting molecular contaminants in LC-MS experiments.
https://authorea.com/users/643346/articles/656759-howdirty-an-r-package-to-evaluate-molecular-contaminants-in-lc-ms-experiments…

When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.

This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans

“…we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner.” https://counterhate.com/blog/letters-from-the-lawyers-musk-threatens-ccdh-with-brazen-attempt-to-silence-honest-criticism/

On this day in 1918: Paul D Boyer was born. He won the 1997 #NobelPrize for elucidating enzymatic mechanism of ATP synthesis #ThisDayInBiotech

Finding academic folks on Mastodon: a list of lists by @hendrikerz

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

#AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

PhD positions in Population Genetics

Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/vienna-graduate-school-of-population-genetics-27778-phd-positions-in-population-genetics-5/?feed_id=52862

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #popgen #genetics #evolution #vienna #bioinformatics
Vienna #Austria #PhDSt...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/vienna-graduate-school-of-population-genetics-27778-phd-positions-in-population-genetics-5/?feed_id=52862

@Talia @sharoz We're doing a review of research misconduct procedures in the UK, aiming to tease out tensions and suggest solutions: https://ukrio.org/our-work/ukrio-research-misconduct-review-2023/

UK institutions should for now follow these guidelines: https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/topics/research-and-innovation/concordat-support-research-integrity
We have this model procedure, updated this year: https://ukrio.org/ukrio-resources/publications/misconduct-investigation-procedure/

Anyone with concerns about research linked to the UK can get our free advice: https://ukrio.org/our-work/get-advice-from-ukrio/

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #UKuniversities

Could you share your best-known example of reproducible and correctly annotated #rstats code that you'd like everybody to use as a template when publishing their own code alongside the paper? My best attempt so far can be found here: https://zenodo.org/record/7687077

The lesson from the Greece wildfires? The climate crisis is coming for us all
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/31/greece-wildfires-climate-crisis-developed-world?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#NesrineMalik

‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/30/florida-universities-colleges-faculty-leaving-desantis

#FloridaUniversities #BrainDrain #AcademicsFlee #Desantis #HigherEducation #FloridaEducation #Politics #News