Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

📢New #BehindthePaper story on the Node

Tirtha Das Banerjee and Antόnia Monteiro tell the story behind their paper exploring the expression and function of Wnt signaling pathway members in setting up butterfly wing patterns 🦋

https://thenode.biologists.com/patterning-the-butterfly-wing-through-wnt-signaling/research/

“Justice #ClarenceThomas disclosed Thursday that Republican megadonor #HarlanCrow paid for private jet trips for Thomas in 2022 to attend a speech in Texas and a vacation at Crow's luxurious New York estate, according to newly released financial disclosure forms.” #SCOTUS

https://apple.news/AspJPYdTMQsaYlwKsSYL26g

X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/31/23853618/x-privacy-policy-update-biometrics-job-history

#throwbackthursday Here is an old image I took many moons ago.
#confocal #microscopy image of #MouseFibroblast cell with multiple nuclei. False coloured and inverted to be on a white background. Blue microtubules, green nuclei

Are you ready to dive into a whirlwind of knowledge, fun, and free lunch? Our #OpenScience Workshop is just around the corner!

📅 When: Oct 16th - 20th

🕒 Where: Bordeaux Neurocampus

💲 How much: FREE!

💸 Travel grants: Not in Bordeaux? No problemo, we have a few travel grants available!

✅ ECTs: Yup! This week can be validated as training hours!

👥 Who: Anyone interested in improving their research practices!

Link: https://bordeaux-neurocampus.github.io/OS-Workshop-2023/program

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Why haven't #hospitals' & #doctors' associations spoken out about the #Medicare #drug negotiations?

Because if they supported price-fixing, they'd have to support the regulation of their own rates, which they've protested for years.

(they're also making money off of expensive drugs 👀)

@STAT's Bob Herman with the incisive take:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/31/pharma-medicare-drug-negotiation-hospitals-doctors/

#CMS #pharma #bigpharma #health #healthcare #medicine

Hi there!

I am a biologist working in the University of Antioquia, in Medellín, Colombia. I am mostly involved in #ComputationalBiology and #Bioinformatics, but I enjoy and work in other subjects too:

- Molecular Biology
- Genetics
- Dynamical systems (ODEs)
- Systems Biology
- Microbiology

I believe in #OpenScience and I could say that #Linux and free software changed my life.

Currently I am promoting the field of Computational Biology in Colombia: https://biologia-computacional.github.io/

#introduction

FYI

'That said, the Food and Drug Administration has extended the expiration dates for certain brands of tests. You can check a test by finding the lot number (typically found right by the expiration date) and cross-referencing it at this F.D.A. website.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/29/well/live/covid-test-expiration.html

'With hospitalisation rates low but rising, experts said Covid-19 cannot yet be treated as a seasonal virus like flu. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned last week that a new sub-variant, BA. 2.86, may be more able to cause infection in people who have previously had Covid-19 or been vaccinated against it, and urged the vulnerable to wear masks in public places.'

https://www.ft.com/content/5ec35a44-eadd-47de-a325-4a5004bc36c5

'New tracking tools are also helping us to scale up from spatiotemporal analyses of behavioral components to a systems-level view of the whole. The systems approach focuses on structure–function relationships, moving from cause-and-effect thinking to synergistic thinking, by emphasizing interactions, linkages, and integrated phenotypes'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002264

'Es un tipo muy duro. Meticuloso. Comprometido. Y ese espíritu se refleja en sus proyectos, como Amazônia, al que pertenecen las imágenes de estas páginas: travesías por la selva amazónica a lo largo de varios años para retratar la tragedia ecológica y humana de la destrucción del pulmón del planeta.'

https://elpais.com/eps/2023-08-30/sebastiao-salgado-y-la-salvaje-poesia-del-amazonas.html

Selective enrichment of plasma cell-free messenger RNA in cancer-associated extracellular vesicles
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05232-z

#IDMastodon #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver , #CovidIsAirborne #Maskup😷 and watch your steps . @Nature
Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with #COVID19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1693410497

Mary Ward died #OTD in 1869.

Ward was a keen amateur astronomer and she built the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a reflecting telescope with a six-foot mirror which remained the world's largest until 1917. Ward was a frequent visitor to Birr Castle, producing sketches of each stage of the process. Along with photographs made by Parson's wife Mary Rosse, Ward's sketches were used to aid in the restoration of the telescope. via @wikipedia

#science #astronomy

"L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."
Petits Poèmes en prose

Charles Baudelaire died #OTD in 1867. French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal, which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. via @Britannica

Books translated/or by Charles Baudelaire at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1947

#books #literature #poetry

More Germans would travel by train but it's too expensive.

While some people prefer this mode of transport, experts have said that reducing tax breaks for airlines and subsidies was needed to make it more affordable.

“It doesn’t make sense if you look at the goals," train travel analyst Bernhard Knierim told Euronews.

"You should subsidise the mode of transport that you want more of, not the one you actually want to reduce."

https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/30/more-germans-would-travel-by-train-but-its-too-expensive-some-residents-say

#Europe #Germany #Trains #Rail #Travel