Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Piece in The Guardian about UK cancer research suffering as a consequence of government dithering over Horizon Europe. Source of story is a Cancer Research UK survey revealing problems in attracting and retaining talented researchers.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/25/uk-facing-brain-drain-of-cancer-researchers-after-failure-to-join-eu-scheme

'O líder do Chega justificou mentiras utilizando mais mentiras e fê-lo em horário nobre num canal de televisão de grande audiência. Todas as mentiras que disse são facilmente verificáveis por quem quiser dedicar-se ao tema. Foi o que fez o Polígrafo e, pela enésima vez, concluiu que Ventura mentiu.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/25/opiniao/opiniao/ventura-historia-mentiroso-compulsivo-2061157

Beautifully illustrated piece on the transition of the #Amazon rainforest from carbon sink to carbon emitter from @nature

#ClimateChange #Carbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSource #Tropical forest #Rainforest

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1/index.html

‘The Card Players’, 1947 by Ruth Orkin

'One may even speculate that there might be individual microglial populations that are specialized to deal with the different pathological challenges of AD. Thus, microglial activation is an integral component of the amyloid cascade and not just an alternate disease-causing pathway unrelated to amyloid-driven events.'
#immunology #Neuroimmunology #alzheimers #Microglia

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001694

'With his student, Jeff Richards, he found that addition of the hormone ecdysone could trigger a self-running process of sequential changes in the pattern of puffs. This led to the first proposal of the existence of cascades of gene regulation during development, which was presented at the 1973 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium'

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223010722?via%3Dihub

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we talked with Luca Giorgetti from the Friedrich Miescher Institute about his work on long-range transcriptional control by 3D chromosome structure. #podcast #epigenetics #chromatin #scicomm

Listen here: https://www.activemotif.com/podcasts#luca-giorgetti

For accessibility reasons, arXiv is starting to publish HTML versions of papers. https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_html_papers.html 🧵

#math #papers #openscience #academia #arXiv
@brembs
@lambo

I think this is interesting and welcome, especially on mobile devices. It is not without problems to want to quickly check some fact on your phone, download the PDF, go to landscape mode, find the right location in the paper, zoom in, etc.
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The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

It is often more worthwhile to read the best paper written in your field in 1972 than to read the latest paper everyone in social media is talking about.

Italy’s hard-right government is starting to look more radical as Georgia Meloni indulges in cultural and economic populism.

Admirers of Meloni and her Brothers of Italy (FdI) party like to describe them as “Latin conservatives”—no more radical than, say, Britain’s Tories.

But the comparison ignores significant differences which have burst to the surface in recent weeks, prompting open splits in the governing coalition.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/24/italys-hard-right-government-is-starting-to-look-more-radical

#Italy #Meloni #HardRight #FarRight #Populism

'Lembrei-me desta teoria de Thomas Merton a propósito do pacote Mais Habitação e das reações que provocou nos partidos à direita. Quem avaliar a proposta através das reações destes partidos e de outras organizações justamente conotadas com princípios de direita chega à conclusão que se trata de um diploma de esquerda radical, marxista ou comunista.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/08/23/opiniao/opiniao/pacote-habitacao-nao-nada-socialista-2060948

'The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), defined as the time it takes for malaria parasites in a mosquito to become infectious to a vertebrate host, is one of the most influential parameters for malaria transmission but remains poorly understood.'

#Preprint #Malaria #Plasmodium

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.22.554268v1

In a surprising twist, another MiniMussolini turns out to be a crook.

'Mr Bolsonaro, 68, has become ensnared in a series of investigations into fraud and election tampering that have already landed some of his closest allies in jail and that, over the past several weeks, appear to be closing in on him.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-arrest-watches.html

Tucker Carlson asked Trump 10 questions that weren't follow ups to things Trump said. Three of those 10 were focused on stoking the idea of political violence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/24/tucker-did-his-best-drag-trump-into-his-political-violence-fantasies/