Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

This is Switzerland taking Russia's side. This is Switzerland effectively arming aggressor Russia by stopping defender Ukraine from arming itself.

The Swiss government will not allow almost 100 Leopard I tanks stored in Italy to be sold to Ukraine.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/08/27/almost-100-leopard-1s-stored-in-the-open-in-italy-as-switzerland-blocked-their-transfer-to-ukraine/

George Takei on the Ugly Danger of Scapegoating: “There are few things more terrifying than demagogic populism, sharpened dangerously into authoritarian rule, with minorities left at the mercy of those now in charge of writing and enforcing the laws.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-takei-on-the-ugly-danger-of-scapegoating?ref=home

#transgender #trans #lgbtq

More cancer screenings sounds like good news. But can the NHS cope with them?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/28/cancer-screenings-nhs-detection-treatment-health-service?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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