Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'La llave que le abrió la puerta, la que le dio una oportunidad crucial que supo aprovechar, son las cuotas que desde hace una década reservan la mitad de las plazas en las mejores universidades brasileñas, las federales, que son públicas, para el alumnado de la escuela pública, con prioridad para pobres, negros, mestizos e indígenas. “Soy la prueba viva de que las cuotas funcionan. Creo que es una de las cuestiones en las que Brasil ha tenido más éxito”, dice desde Brasilia durante una entrevista por videollamada.'

https://elpais.com/sociedad/2023-08-25/las-mejores-universidades-de-brasil-refuerzan-las-plazas-para-pobres-y-negros-soy-la-prueba-viva-de-que-las-cuotas-funcionan.html

About @yangkc​'s and my discovery of a malicious ChatGPT-driven botnet demonstrating how AI can be (and is) readily applied to do evil things
https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-flooded-spammy-ai-content-2023-8

More coverage https://nypost.com/2023/08/24/scientists-found-1140-ai-bots-on-x-creating-fake-profiles/

#^The secret life of Druids


The Greeks and Romans portrayed these elusive priests as bogeymen who bathed in their victims’ blood. Who were they really?
- by Miranda Aldhouse-Green

Read at Aeon

Excellent WaPo story on the impressive #storm that blew through #Michigan yesterday evening.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/25/michigan-tornado-i96-williamston-storms/
Do checkout the videos in the story, including impressive nighttime search and rescue on I-96 as well as satellite view of storm formation.
https://twitter.com/ChicagoMWeather/status/1694928035399487524
https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1694933620149084503

Donald Trump selling assets like Mar-a-Lago to a shell company owned by his oldest son is exactly what innocent people do

Trump isn’t a flight risk

He’s a flight guarantee.

I had never known about Giulianni inciting a riot of racist cops against a black mayor as part of how he became mayor himself jfc

particularly disturbing is all the quotes from opinion columnists at the time all saying in unison that Mayor Dinkins was "playing the race card" because he said the riot of cops all screaming the n-word and calling him a "washroom attendant" might have been about race

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/the-forgotten-city-hall-riot.html

Genomic Analysis of Plastid–Nuclear Interactions and Differential Evolution Rates in Coevolved Genes across Juglandaceae Species https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad145 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Libyan pirates attacked a boat full of Syrian and Lebanese refugees including kids and kidnapped them.

Greek and Maltese authorities were informed but refused to do anything.

Meanwhile, the EU has given Libya half a billion $ since 2015.

The EU is basically funding using terror against children and this isn't even hyperbole.

All to keep as many nonwhites as possible out of Europe.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwP8lLds1Vm/

New study of authors who submit work to #predatory journals.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Some are cynical (padding their resumes), some very naïve, some a strange mix:

"I was shocked by how adrift many authors seemed when faced with the workings of scholarly publishing…Several researchers mistook me for a journal and replied to my #survey e-mail by attaching articles, with comments thanking me in advance for their 'next quick publication' or asking me 'how much it will cost them in dollars'."

#Preprint peer review services have substantially increased in recent years, and we hope to see this trend growing in the future 💪

If you want to learn more about preprint peer review, join us for the September Community Call
Register👇
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOitqj4vGt0XdaThTisd2y3F2JGgcOeS#/registration

The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952074

The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077

#Queuosine-#tRNA promotes sex-dependent learning and memory formation by maintaining #codon-biased translation elongation speed
Francesca Tuorto and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022112507

La rentrée approche: le moment idéal pour s'inscrire au MOOC "Changement climatique : impacts, atténuation et adaptation": https://www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/changement-climatique-impacts-attenuation-et-adaptation/