Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Elon Musk turning off Starlink to prevent an attack by Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian state aggression is as clear and devastating an indictment of the ancap dream of a stateless but fully-privatized world as I could have ever imagined.

'We’re speaking out—despite pressure from the WVU administration to remain silent—because we’re impelled by our responsibility as employees and stewards of this public university to safeguard its integrity and its future.'

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/

“Esse cenário começou a ser previsto em 2014/15 ou 2016. No tempo da crise, cerca de metade dos professores contratados que estavam na escola foram embora. Até foram aconselhados a emigrar porque não havia lugar para eles. O efeito nefasto é que as universidades e as Escolas Superiores de Educação começaram a ficar sem candidatos e a fechar os cursos."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/07/sociedade/entrevista/situacao-pior-temia-conselho-escolas-ha-menos-professores-2062605

PhD-position in cancer biology

University of Bergen

Come join us At The Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen. A second full-time PhD-position in Cancer Biology is now available!

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-bergen-27778-phd-position-in-cancer-biology-2/?feed_id=58248

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Bergen #Norway #PhDStudent
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-bergen-27778-phd-position-in-cancer-biology-2/?feed_id=58248

Lab Automation & Screening Associate Scientist
DSM

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/lab-automation-screening-associate-scientist-2/?feed_id=58241

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Delft #Netherlands #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/lab-automation-screening-associate-scientist-2/?feed_id=58241

'In addition to the complications that can occur during the acute phase of a Covid infection, there appears to be an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems up to a year after an infection. Experts are now trying to understand why.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/well/live/covids-heart-health.html

'Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, chief executive of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which has the majority of voting rights in the company, described executives asking: “Why would we do such a trial with a high risk of maybe not showing anything? Maybe it’s just the anti-diabetic effect that is responsible for the benefits we’ve seen in diabetes. What if we don’t see anything in obesity, and the trial costs hundreds of millions of dollars?” 

https://www.ft.com/content/d951de90-11cc-478b-8592-8312ab9204c7

I've been comparing social media platforms for effictiveness at getting out a PhD advert. Comparing reposts not a like-for-like as TwiX and LinkedIn both use likes to populate your feed. On this basis, LinkedIn clear winner, X clear loser. LinkedIn stripped out links though, grr!

New blogpost, inspired, as usual, by irritation.
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2023/09/polyunsaturated-fatty-acids-and.html
I sometimes think the research literature is so mired by questionable research practices that there is really no hope.
#integrity #p-hacking #PublicationBias #QRPs #neurodevelopment

https://x.com/geneticscam/status/1700130233519587756?s=12&t=KzpAwUVoqKpXV3D6YYYDDQ

@SteveRuss

Spare you the click:
3 post-doc vacancies to join the Steventon Lab at the Dept. of Genetics in Cambridge, UK, on:
1. peripheral nerve regeneration;
2. zebrafish imaging;
3. bioengineering.
https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/join-us/current-vacancies

#PhDJobs #FediHire #jobs #academia #neuroscience #zebrafish

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
War and Peace

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born #OTD in 1828. He is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace & Anna Karenina, which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. War and Peace in particular seems virtually to define this form for many readers and critics.

Leo Tolstoy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/136

#books #literature

Cool new work lead by John H Wen:

One-shot entorhinal maps enable flexible navigation in novel environments
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556744v1

#neuroscience #research

Typography: It Matters!

#typography #type #font #fonts #humor #humour #funny #writingcommunity #books #writing