Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'At the precise moment when music was becoming synthesised and digitised and sampled, he insisted on its traditions of heavy lifting. (“Anyone who has ever played a piano,” he liked to say, “would really like to hear how it sounds when dropped from a 12th-floor window.”)'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/20/tom-waits-frank-trilogy-reissues-swordfishtrombones-rain-dogs-franks-wild-years

Wonderful! @hildabast writes:

"It’s exciting to join in the growth and success of truly social media – media that doesn’t trap us in commercially-owned spaces that are extractive and manipulative. It feels worth investing in a community for the longterm when you know they can follow you if you move to a different neighborhood."

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/20/how-is-science-twitters-mastodon-migration-panning-out/

#science

We commonly use #nitrofurantoin to treat #UTI and even sometimes as prophylaxis for recurrent infections.

Super safe #antibiotic but a reminder that rarely it can cause serious complications #lung #fibrosis
@infectiousdiseases @microbiology #IDMastodon #MedMastodon #medicine

Chronic Nitrofurantoin-Induced Lung Injury

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm2214831

#IDMastodon It’s a nasty piece of work #SarsCoV2 🦠. IL-6 during severe #COVID19 reprograms hematopoiesis and establish epigenetic memory in HSPC and progeny myeloid cells for up to 1 year, affecting post-infection immune equilibrium in #PostCovid / #LongCovid @duyguucar @JosefowiczLab @cellcellpress

Interesting article:

There are 2.2 million human beings confined in prison and jail cells in the United States tonight. About 500,000 of them are presumptively innocent and awaiting trial, the vast majority are confined by the government solely because they can't pay enough money to buy their release. This country has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners—the highest rate of human caging of any society in recorded history of the modern world. At least another 4.5 million people are under government control through probation and parole “supervision.”

Between 80% and 90% of people charged with crimes are so poor that they can't afford a lawyer. Twenty-five years into America’s incarceration boom, black people were incarcerated at a rate 6 times that of South Africa during apartheid. The incarceration rate for black people in the nation’s capital, where I live, is 19 times that of white people.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-punishment-bureaucracy

#massincarceration

'Various mental health conditions may be risk factors for HIV infection, and when such conditions coexist, risks may be compounded. Mental health conditions can also complicate HIV treatment: depression, for example, is associated with reduced adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART)'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2305399?query=featured_home

“I kept waiting for the cavalry to come, and it really hasn’t, even today,” Dr. Grabowski said. “At no time during the pandemic did we prioritize nursing homes.” More than 167,000 residents have died, Medicare reported this month, along with at least 3,100 staff members.'
#covid19 #COVID #publichealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/health/nursing-homes-covid.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'The planned cuts include the school’s program of world languages and literatures, along with graduate programs in mathematics and other degrees across the arts and pre-professional programs. The university is deciding, in effect, that certain citizens don’t get access to a liberal arts education.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opinion/west-virginia-university-cuts.html

“Shedding the hectic energy #Twitter had conditioned me to was an adjustment, but it definitely made life better. And watching the vandalism wreaking havoc on the place formerly known as Twitter makes building so very satisfying. #Science #Mastodon doesn’t even need to grow to be great. But it sure looks like it’s going to.”

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/08/20/how-is-science-twitters-mastodon-migration-panning-out/ via @jby

August 20, 1858, the #Darwin–#Wallace paper on #evolution by natural selection is published by the Linnean Society.

https://wallacefund.myspecies.info/content/1858-darwin-wallace-paper

@proteomicsnews blog post | Phospho-Analyst! The best phosphoproteomic analysis toolkit ever? | https://proteomicsnews.blogspot.com/2023/08/phospho-analyst-best-phosphoproteomic.html #proteomics

Seems like a good time to repost this:

#TerryPratchett #Offense #Humour #GoodOmens

A telling graph
US life expectancy by state vs countries https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/opinion/health-care-life-expectancy-poverty.html?searchResultPosition=1

Open yourself up to the idea that #Bach wrote a comic mini-opera about #coffee and café culture. A German friend sent me this excellent performance of the Coffee Cantata. I thrust it into your timeline to push back the darkness. Tea drinkers are excused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Loyexw3uk

Incredible video shows lightning 'strikes upwards' from Agua Volcano in Guatemala
#AureFreePress

🤒 It’s important to schedule any serious illness you have so that they don’t coincide with research funding deadlines 😷⁠
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#scicommgroup #laboratorywork #laboratorymedicine #ScienceJokes #research