Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222075120
The baby bump that occurred in the United States during Covid, defying all prediction, and the first reveals of declining fertility rates since the Great Recession

@davidaugust

1) Don't ban books
2) Don't waste educators' time with book bans
3) Don't make decisions about books without reading them
4) Don't fall for OpenAI's interface: ChatGPT is not the kind of thing you can sensibly ask for information

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

Postdoctoral Fellow - Trotman Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-trotman-lab/?feed_id=55197

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-trotman-lab/?feed_id=55197

'We have identified a neural circuit for innate male sexual behavior (Figure 7U). This circuit enables recognition of potential mates and motor displays of mating, rejuvenates sexual drive, and makes mating rewarding. Moreover, our findings show that the brain employs distinct neural circuits to generate male mating and aggression.'
#Neuroscience

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00798-5#gr7

It positively glows with marital bliss

"Yet Jakob Fugger and Sybilla Artzt were man and wife. This painting, by the German artist Hans Burgkmair the Elder, was made to commemorate their wedding in 1498."

https://www.ft.com/content/3dbc2126-04eb-4b42-90ca-df5f39399f58

"If justice is blind, she sometimes heads down unpredictable paths. For example, only in Donald Trump’s fourth felony indictment, unsealed last night in Atlanta, has a local prosecutor managed to deliver a sweeping, nationwide view of the former president’s scheme to steal the 2020 election."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trump-georgia-indictment-election/675018/

Dear mastodon folks interested in animal behaviour as an academic field, we are now hosting a directory to list those of us who have joined mastodon and are willing to appear in the list - and you can join us: https://animalbehaviour.live/mastodon/

September issue of TREE now out!

Cover article by Michal Segoli et al

Featured articles Schoeman et al, Kays & Wikelski, Breyer & Baltar

Articles from Ingley & Pack, Shipley et al, Gunnarsson & Hedblom, Robinson & Wright, Patricia Lopes, Rasmussen et al, van Dooren et al, Usui et al,

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/current

Elon: It’s called Nazi Town now. The posts are called Zs.

Folks: Ah, Twitter, why can’t I quit you? I guess I should just go and tweet on Twitter now because tweeting is what you do on Twitter and I’m on Twitter, tweeting.

Bioinformatician Hematology

Erasmus Medical Center

Come work on single cell data analysis in multiple myeloma at the Erasmus MC. #bioinformatics #MM #scRNAseq

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/erasmus-medical-center-27778-bioinformatician-hematology/?feed_id=55133

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Rotterdam #Netherlands #Bioinformatician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/erasmus-medical-center-27778-bioinformatician-hematology/?feed_id=55133

The Netherlands is not mentioned in the article, but it is the same.
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Surveillance, raids and arrests: Europe cracks down on "direct action" climate protests.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/10/surveillance-raids-and-arrests-europe-cracks-down-on-direct-action-climate-protests

@gpollara this paper supports the message we sent out when we reported the presence of a 'Viral storm' in severe covid-19 also in Lancet Microbe, linked to a more evident dysregulated response. We proposed that preventing this viral storm could prevent hyperinflammation https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00041-1/fulltext

"All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it."
De Quincey's Writings (ed. 1854)

Thomas De Quincey was born #OTD in 1785. He is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. via @wikipedia

Books by Thomas De Quincey at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/797

#books #literature

This is so ridiculously petty if true.

#elonmusk #twitter #x #twittermigration #tech #technology

Humans have been making symbols for numbers for thousands of years.

Different cultures developed their own symbols, but all use addition and multiplication, suggesting arithmetic is a universal truth, writes @RandolphGrace (@UCNZ).

https://theconversation.com/arithmetic-has-a-biological-origin-its-an-expression-in-symbols-of-the-deep-structure-of-our-perception-211337?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1692063977-1