Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🦋Artist: #MANTRA / #Mantrarea
(Youri Cancell) in City: #Heidelberg #Neuenheim Uferstraße, Germany 🇩🇪 2022 - Title: "The Butterfly“ - (📷 by Equis007) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Freehand #Spraycanart #Painting #Butterfly

@TheEuropeanNetwork but it was just #ProjectFear right? #Brexit #BrexitReality #musicians

'The number of people employed in life sciences in Ireland has surged by 80 per cent to almost 100,000 over the past decade on the back of almost $15bn in capital investment in the sector. Last year a record 301,475 people worked at multinationals, which paid 86 per cent of all corporate taxes received in the country of 5mn people.'

https://www.ft.com/content/706578ed-6d66-4b16-9112-5026b77cdb95

Thomas Nagel, on the tendency to seek nice, simple, tidy solutions to philosophical problems, is very reassuring. This is from The View From Nowhere (p.12).

Did my periodic check in on #Twitter / #X and saw a bunch of posts saying killing Canada's carbon tax would save people money.

So here is my periodic reminder that carbon REBATES exist.

For my household, at least, getting rid of the carbon tax would end up costing us money. (We get a bit more in rebates than we pay in tax, both directly and indirectly.)

Your mileage may vary, of course.

Here's a calculator to figure out your own household's costs & rebate:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cbc-federal-carbon-tax-calculator-2023-24-year-65-dollars-per-tonne-1.6891467

#cdnpoli

'To add insult to injury, the bot is being trained on pirated copies of my books. Now, really! How cheap is that? Would it kill these companies to shell out the measly price of 33 books? They intend to make a lot of money off the entities they have reared and fattened on my words, so they could at least buy me a coffee.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/ai-chatbot-training-books-margaret-atwood/675151/

'Why would blood group make any difference to SARS-CoV-2? Several new studies offer possible explanations. One from Stowell and colleagues, recently published in Blood, suggests that having type A blood makes SARS-CoV-2 “stickier” to host cells.'

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2808688?guestAccessKey=a7429c80-4b5a-4930-87f4-6f7c440da2bd&utm_source=linkedin_company&utm_medium=social_jama&utm_term=11059908828&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=230199732

'A few journals do offer more-accessible solutions to reduce the language gap. The Society for the Study of Evolution launched an English-language mentoring programme to support authors submitting work to the journal Evolution. Authors get to work with an editor assigned to make light-touch edits and discuss ways to improve the clarity of the text.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02529-1

In South Carolina over the weekend, a young student was killed by his neighbor for coming home and walking up to the neighbors house in stead of his own.

Yes — it's the guns.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/28/south-carolina-student-shot-and-killed-nicholas-anthony-donofrio/70697384007/

Unpaid carers are being pushed into #poverty, new research shows https://www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/unpaid-carers-are-being-pushed-into-poverty-new-research-shows#:~:text=Unpaid carers are being pushed into poverty, new research shows&text=New research from the Joseph,caring for a loved one.
Unpaid leave doesn’t reflect the importance of caring in our society and fails to give carers the financial recognition for the work they do.
#UK #WomensHealth #DisabilityPolicy #DisabilityJustice #WomenWithDisabilities

Many British musicians say Brexit has cost them dearly with almost half of those surveyed saying they've less work in the EU and more than a quarter saying they have seen all their work in Europe dry up.

In a report, 'Paying the Price', the Independent Society of Musicians said those who are still working in Europe have seen a significant increase in costs with fees for visas, work permits and equipment carnets introduced since Brexit.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/29/british-musicians-say-they-are-losing-out-on-gigs-and-jobs-in-europe-since-brexit

#UK #EU #Brexit #Music #Musicians

Image sleuth @ElisabethBik is back on Mastodon 🕵️‍♂️ 🎉

https://med-mastodon.com/@ElisabethBik/110969401224111581

#ImageForensics #ImageManipulation #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicMastodon

ESCMID guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of brain abscess in children and adults - Clinical Microbiology and Infection

#IDMastodon #MedMastodon #AMR #antibiotics #microbiology #antimicrobialstewardship #infectiousdiseases #medicine @infectiousdiseases @microbiology

https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00399-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

'Using several high-throughput sequencing approaches, we show that the H/ACA complex is recruited to actively transcribed genes genome-wide, where it performs mRNA pseudouridylation. Moreover, we demonstrate that this modification reduces the rate of mRNA translation and that loss of dyskerin-mediated pseudouridylation results in global elevation of protein synthesis.'
#MolecularBiology #mRNA

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg1805

'Los archivos desclasificados muestran la visión de Washington sobre los acontecimientos que sucedían en Santiago de Chile en las horas previas al quiebre democrático que dio paso a la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).'

https://elpais.com/chile/2023-08-26/ee-uu-desclasifica-informes-enviados-a-nixon-en-las-horas-previas-al-golpe-de-estado-en-chile-allende-cree-que-la-unica-solucion-es-politica.html