Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Acting like there’s no tomorrow is a great way of ensuring that when tomorrow inevitably arrives that it will be an absolute mess…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html

Assistant Professor job- Comparative Biomechanics - Integrative Biology Department:
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04087

'Genomic technologies evolve rapidly, and there is a pressing need to update genetics teaching curricula and training in medical education. Some universities8 have already started to address this gap with initiatives aimed at enhancing undergraduate medical education in genomics and recruiting medical graduates into genetics residency training programs, but more formal education programs for medical students and current clinicians are urgently needed.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02522-1

'La mayor parte de los condenados hizo carrera dentro del Ejército, alcanzando con los años altos cargos dentro del escalafón militar. Todos están en situación de retiro y transitaron el juicio en libertad. Este es un perfil de los condenados.'

https://elpais.com/chile/2023-08-29/brigadieres-y-coroneles-los-siete-exmilitares-condenados-por-el-asesinato-de-victor-jara-alcanzaron-altos-rangos-en-el-ejercito.html

'In this study, we identified that PRMT3 catalyzes asymmetric arginine dimethylation of RIG-I, MDA5, and cGAS, leading to the inhibition of their activation. As a result, knockdown of Prmt3 in mice can protect mice against both RNA and DNA virus infection.'
#immunology #InnateImmunity

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214956120

'Nobody would dare to boil down Ursula Le Guin’s marvelous writing—all that fantasy, all that science fiction, poetry, essays, translations—into one idea. But in a pinch I’d pick two sentences from her 2014 National Book Award speech: “Capitalism[’s] power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

https://lithub.com/dragons-are-people-too-ursula-le-guins-acts-of-recognition/

'The pigment cells of the sea urchin were also found to be similar to immune and neural cell types in the sea star. Based on the genes shared between them, Meyer et al. propose that pigment cells have a dual role (immune and neural) in sea urchin larvae, while these functions are exerted by two separate cell types in sea stars (Figure 1B).'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/90447

'Kidneys even have a sense of smell. To sift hundreds of blood and urine chemicals on the fly, expelling some and husbanding others in precise quantities, kidneys employ odor receptors similar to those found in the nose. “The kidney is sniffing the urine and the blood plasma as they go by,” says Jennifer Pluznick, associate professor of physiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who discovered the organ’s olfactory gifts. “The kidney’s attention to detail is astounding. I’m convinced it has many other long-​held secrets which are waiting to be discovered.”

https://lithub.com/how-our-kidneys-keep-us-healthy-and-what-it-means-when-they-fail/

The fear of being murdered by your student with a gun Is uniquely American.

https://www.wral.com/story/unc-shooting-victim-faculty-academic-adviser/21023373/

How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/29/climate-change-public-housing-health-consequences/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

A 29-year-old woman died while in US Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, #Texas. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-and-statements/statement-cbp-custody-death

Abortion is a defining political issue for the U.S. today. At last week's GOP debate, the contenders staked out their positions. And for some, that included planning an all-out, national ban on abortions. So much for letting the states decide. We dive in deeper at #TheBigPicture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-debate-abortion-bans-2024

Hot off the press! 📰

It took a minute, but I'm glad it's finally out:

A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916231191744

In his #JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Michael Lim tells us about his researching showing that the offspring of stressed zebrafish parents are more stress-tolerant than the offspring of unstressed parents and why there should be more support for null results, to reduce the pressure on researchers in search of high profile results

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb246534/325941

Read the full research article at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb245583/325942

ReCom: A semi-supervised approach to ultra-tolerant database search for improved identification of modified peptides | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1874391923001574?dgcid=rss_sd_all #proteomics

Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction #OTD in 1831.

James Clerk Maxwell mathematically described it as Faraday's law of induction. Lenz's law describes the direction of the induced field. Faraday's law was later generalized to become the Maxwell–Faraday equation, one of the four Maxwell equations in his theory of electromagnetism.

#science #physics

“Dryness in Panama, low levels in the Mississippi. Low levels in the Rhine. That’s of concern to anyone that has interests in global trade.”

Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/climate/panama-canal-drought-global-trade.html

#Shipping #Drought #ClimateChange #SupplyChain #PanamaCanal