Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Resistant pathogens killed 1.26mn people in 2019, according to an analysis published in the medical journal The Lancet. “All of modern medicine is upheld by our ability to control infectious disease. If we can’t control infection, we can’t administer chemotherapy, do invasive surgery, and preterm birth becomes really, really challenging and risky”

https://www.ft.com/content/e9aeb9a3-a93c-439b-ab81-a7c71266d992

'But scientists who study viral transmission see another lesson in the pandemic school closures: Had the indoor air been cleaner and safer, they may have been avoidable. The coronavirus is an airborne threat, and the incidence of Covid was about 40 percent lower in schools that improved air quality, one study found.'
#Covid #Covid19 #PublicHealth

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/schools-indoor-air-covid.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'Drought and wildfires across southern Europe this summer are the most overt signs of a complex and entrenched water scarcity problem that is becoming more severe as the climate changes. “There is no country in Europe that can pretend to be shielded,” said Xavier Leflaive, who leads the water team in the OECD’s environment directorate.'

https://www.ft.com/content/80122ded-4158-45f9-915c-a52b5fb2d088

'Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1963, a four-story townhouse on West 130th Street in Harlem became the headquarters for what was then the largest civil rights event in American history, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/nyregion/march-on-washington-harlem.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=New%20York

'Scientists are learning that free-floating bits of genetic material found in a pregnant person’s blood may offer a way to detect complications such as preeclampsia and preterm birth—although some experts caution that it’s too early to determine how useful these tests will be in the clinic.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/08/pregnancy-complication-tests-noninvasive/675147/

Getting Covid from being in the hospital (nosocomial infections): Features of nearly 7,700 such infections in 288 US hospitals that should be prevented
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808799

Cargo-loaded lipid-shielded breakable organosilica nanocages for enhanced drug delivery http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/NR/D3NR02155F

Mitophagy receptor Nix can induce autophagy independent of LIR-mediated ATG8 recruitment - via its minimal essential region (MER) interacting with WIPI2
Rick Youle and collaborators
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023113491

Unite and Unison back campaign to exempt strike days from maternity pay calculations, rightly calling the current system where new parents are penalised twice for taking part in industrial action by losing part of maternity pay ‘immoral’ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/aug/28/uk-unions-say-cutting-maternity-pay-for-striking-pregnant-workers-is-immoral

#EmploymentLaw #Maternity #IndustrialAction #Strikes #WorkersRights

Today's editorial on the new #LongCovid study
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2023-08-24/long-covid-heart-disease-alzheimers-diabetes-depression
In-depth review here
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-term-long-covid

William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus #OTD in 1789, during the first use of his 1.2 m 40-foot telescope, then the largest in the world, at Observatory House in Slough, England.

Its faint apparent magnitude (HV = +11.7) & its proximity to the much brighter Saturn and Saturn's rings make Enceladus difficult to observe from Earth with smaller telescopes. But little was known about it until the two Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 & 2, flew by Saturn in 1980 & 1981.

#astronomy

Travelling by train in Europe should be silky smooth.

From pan-European corridors to interregional connections, we have helped build greener and sustainable ways into #Europe.

And we are up for more:

🚊 Today, we earmarked more than €52 million to support the purchase of 37 electric #trains for 13 interregional routes in Romania.

🚆 This month, we allocated €411 million to help build two sections of Spain’s Murcia-Almería high-speed railway.

Discover more: https://europa.eu/!J6DBmw

#EUFunded

Bizarre extraterrestrial-like beings in 19th-century gynecological diagrams. "the diagrams look more like an instruction manual for a naked alien gymnastics course." https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/bizarre-extraterrestrial-like-beings-in-19th-century-gynecological-diagrams.html

"Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves."
In: The Word Book Complete Word Power Library

Hugo Grotius died #OTD in 1645. Two of his books have had a lasting impact in the field of international law: De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) dedicated to Louis XIII of France and the Mare Liberum (The Free Seas) for which Grotius has been called the "father of international law". via @wikipedia

Books by Hugo Grotius at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5744

#books #literature

Last pristine place on Earth
Deep sea mining will obliterate some of most pristine ecosystems on Earth, such as stretch of ocean from Hawaii to Mexico which is to be mined and where, scientists recently cataloged more than 5,500 deep-sea species #climate

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/mining-crystals-locked-in-the-deep-sea-could-help-fight-climate-change-it-may-also-destroy-earths-last-untouched-ecosystem

Super cool work on functional specialisation in artificial neural networks, lead by @GabrielBena together with @neuralreckoning

"Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02626

Gabriel also recently joined Mastodon, so give him a follow if you are interested in #neuroscience #ML #AI #research !

"Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers"

That's bad!

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/emails-reveal-secret-service-contacts-with-oath-keepers/