Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

In Scotland, hundreds of hospital wards have been forced to close due to COVID outbreaks in the first seven months of this year. They ended testing last year and ended their mask mandate earlier this year. Pretending COVID is over equals constant disruption. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23746393.hundreds-hospital-wards-closed-due-covid-outbreaks/?ref=twtrec

Nematoceran fly —aka mosquito or midge-like— sipping nectar, its head and paintbrush antennae (the size alone labels it as male: their purpose is to locate females) bobbing up and down as if listening to heavy metal. Wish I recorded a video.

Faintest idea what species this is, I have not.

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180354943

#iNaturalist #Diptera #entomology #insects #midges

@cyrilpedia
This 👇 is the key passage to me. Sadly no one wins from the #fragmentation that's come from the decline of #twitter / #X
#Threads #Bluesky #Bastodon #academicchatter #academia @academicchatter

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"Although there is widespread agreement that practicing reproducible research is a good idea, there is equally widespread variation in both how to practice reproducible research and what practicing reproducible research constitutes"

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/173741

'In patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity, treatment with semaglutide (2.4 mg) led to larger reductions in symptoms and physical limitations, greater improvements in exercise function, and greater weight loss than placebo'

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2306963?query=featured_homeo

'No se sabe; sobre lo que sí hay certeza es que, en sus últimas palabras desde La Moneda, se despidió del pueblo, de la madre obrera, de los profesionales, de la juventud, del trabajador, del campesino, del intelectual, pero omitió cualquier mención a esa Unidad Popular que fue creada por sus propias manos, así como a sus partidos, dirigentes y militantes.'

https://elpais.com/ideas/2023-08-27/salvador-allende-50-anos-de-inmortalidad.html

'Two more US Department of State documents relating to Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état in Chile have been declassified, revealing how President Richard Nixon was briefed on the impending military takeover.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/26/state-department-declassifies-pinochet-coup-documents-chile

Live long & prosper. And host pathogens.

"The white-footed deermouse Peromyscus leucopus, a long-lived rodent, is a key reservoir for agents of several zoonoses, including Lyme disease. While persistently infected, this deermouse is without apparent disability or diminished fitness"
#immunology #InfectiousDisease #HostPathogen #ResistanceTolerance

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/90135

“AR Gov Sanders suggests course on Black history spreads ‘hate’ against U.S.”

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Some white people were enslavers. Other white people were abolitionists. If you think teaching that accurate history “spreads hate”—then you’ll have to first explain why you associate more with enslavers than with abolitionists?🤔
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sarah-huckabee-sanders-ap-african-american-history-hate-comments-rcna100657

'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-08-25/column-scientists-used-to-love-twitter-thanks-to-elon-musk-theyre-giving-up-on-it

Fun fact for people who think #COVID19 is “just the flu”:

According to the CDC, in the four weeks of July 2023 (the weeks of 7/1, 7/8, 7/15/ and 7/22, which was during what many consider a “low” or “safe” period):

1,990 people died of COVID
86 people died of flu

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

"creamy flesh of excellent color and nutty flavor…and butter-like consistency."

OTD in 1935, Robert Hass patented his namesake avocado, forever changing our relationship with Earth's most nutritious fruit. Its strange evolutionary and creative history: https://t.co/cXJCZEmqxR

Hay 16000 instituciones educativas que están usando el mismo software para detectar textos generados por #IA. Se llama #Turnitin. El problema es que perjudica a los hablantes no nativos: como redactan de manera más simple o predecible, tiende a pensar que sus textos los escribió una IA.

Y no es un problema menor: según una prueba de la universidad de Stanford, el 61% del alumnado que escribe en inglés sin ser su lengua materna es acusado de usar IA.

Fuente: https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2023/08/14/ai-detection-tools-falsely-accuse-international-students-of-cheating

My Dresden colleagues have recently published a paper.

Carlotta Mayer (@c_ma_yer on the cross site) shows that #hepatocytes react to increased #bile #pressure by forming the #apical projections called bulkheads. This is also observed in #human #liver when bile pressure is increased to a pathological level. Upon further increase of bile pressure, bulkheads no longer hold the #canaliculi shape and form #rosettes.
#CellBiology #CellPolarity

https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202357181

https://twitter.com/ZerialLab/status/1686028788658847744?s=20

On this day in 1875: Katherine McCormick born, biologist & suffragist who helped pioneer the first oral contraceptive pill #WomenInBiotech

On this day in 2021 Edmond H Fischer died, won 1992 #NobelPrize for work discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation #ThisDayInBiotech

#introduction
Hey everyone !
I'm Gabriel Béna, I'm a French PhD student @ Imperial College London, under the supervision of @neuralreckoning.
I'm interested in using AI methods and ideas to uncover computational insights about the brain(s), and conversely to use biological insights to further advance AI.
My latest reserach has focused on studying modularity in networks under ressource constraints, and showing how functional and structural modularity may not be as linked as one may think.
I also study SNNs, especially in the context of multimodal integration (working in collaboration with @marcusghosh).
Having never jumped on the X-twitter train, I have high hopes that we can foster a real and fruitful community of peers here further on, and I'm excited to hear from you all :)
Cheers

Screw an apology, sue for billions. End Fox News.

Or, take it in your own hands. End them. These people are calling for violence. Give it to them.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/business/fox-news-gold-star-family-apology