Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“Although news organizations are sometimes the targets of legal actions by government officials, including subpoenas seeking interview notes and other records, the search and seizure of the tools to produce journalism are rare.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid.html #Kansas

'The Maui fires are another reminder that we have entered a fire age—a “pyrocene,” as the emeritus professor and wildfire expert Stephen J. Pyne has called it. Humans are still figuring out how to live in this new reality, playing catch-up as the world burns around us.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/08/maui-wildfire-hurricane-connection/674982/

"In a pathological culture, crucial information about potentially damning errors or hazards is hoarded by those in power and often used as a weapon to silence critics. In a bureaucratic culture, emphasis is on policies, rules, and compliance where similar information is either unwelcome or ignored. And a generative culture is one oriented on performance, where potentially damaging information is welcomed and distributed to the right people to act on."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1852

"Para tomar perspectiva y averiguar qué parte del envejecimiento es particular de cada especie y qué parte es compartida por muchas, los investigadores aplicaron estos relojes de metilación de ADN a 15.000 muestras de tejido de 348 especies de mamíferos y compararon los cambios epigenéticos en regiones del genoma, conservadas durante millones de años de evolución, que compartimos con los ratones o los perros."

https://elpais.com/salud-y-bienestar/2023-08-10/un-reloj-biologico-identifica-por-que-un-ano-de-perro-equivale-a-siete-de-humano.html

"For those who want to dig into the numbers, Alberto Espay at the University of Cinncinati has an infographic that walks through the details of the trial results in patients with mild cognitive impairment. The key take-home? Benefits are likely to be imperceptible and the risk of brain bleeds (ARIA) and other side effects with the drug—like with aducanumab—are substantial."
#Alzheimer #alzheimersdisease #alzheimers

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alzheimers-drugs/

"Strindberg, very mad, was a fellow paranoiac: “As regards Munch, who is now my enemy,” he wrote to his editor, “I am certain he will not miss the opportunity to stab me with a poisoned knife.” Years later, when Munch was painting on the beach and a gust of wind upended his easel, he blamed Strindberg."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/edvard-munch-artist-the-scream-clark-art-institute-exhibit/674766/

"The immune system is a compelling and apt subject for a systems biology approach to research, as it is a distributed, multiagent system with emergent properties. It is a complex adaptive system (CAS), self-organized, and regulated by dynamical interactions of individual cells with a capacity to respond to environmental changes both collectively and individually"
#Immunology #SystemsBiology

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00113-8

"Here, we show that key metabolic functions of human hepatocytes are controlled by non-parenchymal cells (NPCs) in their microenvironment. We developed mice bearing human hepatic tissue composed of human hepatocytes and NPCs, including human immune, endothelial, and stellate cells. "

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00795-X?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#%20

"People watch a wildfire in Aljezur, Portugal, on August 7, 2023.
Pedro Nunes / Reuters"
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/08/photos-of-the-week-foam-party-pet-dryer-hummingbird-care/674983/

If I was to nominate an insect in a vampire lookalike contest, this would be one of my top entries:

Stilbula sp., a wasp that, by the looks of it, is a parasitoid http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178149023

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #wasplove #wasps #entomology #insects

@cyrilpedia
the prado museum could do such a side-by-side also with velasquez and picasso (if they didn't already). I was always amazed to see how, and how much, pablo learned from diego! and by copying him transforming it into his very own (also excellent science often works like that imo)

A lake on the coast of Sweden has been fed by warmed water from a nuclear power plant since the 80s. This “biotest” lake is now helping researchers understand the effects of climate change on fish. #eLifePodcast 🎧 https://elifesciences.org/podcast/episode88?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Assistant Professor positions call at Karolinska:
#sciencejobs

https://ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:640655/

'The animals’ airway architecture is uncannily similar to ours, and unlike most lab mice, ferrets are vulnerable to catching and passing on flu viruses—even developing the same coughy, sniffly symptoms that so many humans do. But most flu-transmission experiments in ferrets remain limited to artificial circumstances: pairs of animals in tiny cages with dividers between them, where scientists ogle them inhaling each other’s air for days or even weeks.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/day-care-ferret-flu-transmission-research/674972/

If you're in Madrid, El Greco meets Picasso at the Prado:

"Hay algo muy poco habitual que se está produciendo ahora mismo en Madrid, concretamente en la sala 9B del Museo del Prado. Es como si se entrara en una burbuja donde se está produciendo el inverosímil encuentro entre dos artistas que vivieron en siglos muy distintos."

https://elpais.com/opinion/2023-08-11/los-santos-del-greco-y-los-musicos-de-picasso.html

August 13, 1625, birthday of Danish physician & mathematician Erasmus Bartholin. He studied the double refraction of light on a strange crystal (known today as Calcite) and published his observations in 1668 💎

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoZar-gCj3E