Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"False alarm, master. It's a mob of book-banners headed for the library." – "Monsters."
#library cartoon by #TomGauld: https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/725457987346563072/my-cartoon-for-this-weeks-guardian-books

Me: "The kid is yelling at me about physics again."

Husband: "To be fair I often wish I could yell at someone about physics..."

#parenting

Postdoctoral researcher (M/W): Pathogenic mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease

CNRS/AMU/INP

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cnrs-amu-inp-27778-postdoctoral-researcher-m-w-pathogenic-mechanisms-of-alzheimers-disease/?feed_id=54862

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Marseille #France #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cnrs-amu-inp-27778-postdoctoral-researcher-m-w-pathogenic-mechanisms-of-alzheimers-disease/?feed_id=54862

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Has Been Digitized and Put Online

https://www.openculture.com/2022/02/the-medieval-masterpiece-the-book-of-kells-has-been-digitized-and-put-online.html via @openculture

My spreadsheet that tracks scientific studies demonstrating how #COVID19 infections and reinfections can adversely affect your longer-term health has climbed to 290 studies. You'll find the details here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit?usp=sharing

US folks: hoping this won’t apply to any of you but in the event you get unlucky with #Covid and might be willing to contribute to research, Scripps has a study seeking participants w/in 48 hrs of a positive Covid test. All sent to your home. https://redcapstsi.scripps.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=J83NTFYFHAJTXELY&utm_source=eMed&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Mina&utm_id=eMed+Pax+Study

California dreamin’: scenes of Black joy and leisure in the Jim Crow era

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2023/aug/12/california-african-american-museum-black-joy-beach-photo-exhibit-los-angeles

> Historian Dr Alison Rose Jefferson collected photos from the Jim Crow era bringing to life stories of African Americans who settled the beach, creating gathering places that challenged white supremacy.

On display at California African American Museum (CAAM) in Los Angeles
'Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier

@BlackMastodon@chirp.social
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
#BlackMastodon

'For an individual academic, the key is to experiment with a platform to get a sense of whether it works for you, and try to understand where the people you want to talk to are gathering, whether they are having the conversations you want to join, and whether those are a reflection of existing networks or involve people you don’t yet know. It’s the connections that are important.'

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducation/2023/07/27/where-now-for-academics-on-social-media-post-twitter/

Yeah, me too, but it seems we are now inhabiting a dystopian science fiction novel

“When I recently saw a video of the buoys installed in the Rio Grande to thwart the passage of migrants, I thought it must be fake. The buoys appear to be deliberately equipped with sharp sawlike sprockets designed to slice up anyone who tries to clamber over them. “Those can’t be real,” I thought. “Even for Texas.””

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/08/you-either-see-everyone-else-as-a-human-being-or-you-dont

"The order was in response to a Justice Department objection to the plan, which the government said allowed members of the Sackler family to take advantage of legal protections meant for debtors in “financial distress,” not for billionaires."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement.html

Word of the day: "If the traveller had scaled the peak of phonolithic rock - so called because of the xylophonic sound the stones make as they slide away under a climber's feet (...)"

Graham Robb, The Discovery of France.

#Book #Books #Bookshelf #bookstodon

Zoom now wants you to focus on Section 10 of their terms of service where they now say they won't use your calls and other data to train their AI models, but instead, focus on Section 15. Zoom (like most Big Tech ToS) can change those terms at any time,. They laughably say you should "regularly check" their legal pages for those notices and if you don't but keep using the services you've agreed to the changes. These services are unethically deployed technology at their most fundamental level..