Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Cooke had always admired Bob Dylan’s civil rights song “Blowin’ in the Wind”. He pulled it straight into his own live repertoire, but still, as biographer Daniel Wolff wrote, something troubled him: “Geez, a white boy writing a song like that?” A 2005 biographer, Peter Guralnick, said that Cooke was “almost ashamed not to have written something like that himself”.
(photo © Jess Rand/Getty)

https://www.ft.com/content/8b88324c-4752-11e6-8d68-72e9211e86ab

Danes legally robbing migrants of all their belongings (other than wedding rings):

"Se han aprobado leyes, como la danesa, que permite a las autoridades confiscar todo el dinero y objetos de valor de los inmigrantes, con la excepción de los anillos de boda."

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-09-03/la-peor-cara-de-europa-con-los-migrantes.html

TikTok is spending $1.3 billion to dodge bans in Europe.

European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.

“TikTok poses several unacceptable risks for European users, including data access by Chinese authorities, censorship, and the tracking of journalists".

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-is-spending-13-billion-project-clover-europe

#Europe #EU #UK #TikTok #BigTech #China #NationalSecurity #Espionage #Censorship #Privacy

Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.

"I Watched a Democracy Die. I Don’t Want to Do It Again."

How Chileans remember the trauma of our past could not be more important than now, when the temptation of authoritarian rule is again on the rise.

#Chile #Allende

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/chile-allende-september-11.html?unlocked_article_code=eTSH1Fxe6x9qrlhhniyV7Q9-dz4XG_1k8DzGBG48WcrvXDpXmIx6rIIPduVZUCTQ2ZPvUSXJ8rbPYe1SAKYXBDNalDzla0id78wgUe5eWA5AbiaEcvatQ4RSK5k6y3pnMbYbEp5d3prr62gFSIF9R1rI23kNq5bso_oGPIuCy1Npue2QKiLJ9X0MKDynbfQPRF3SG790xsWuvY0G6D4nDQnqDBy9Vi8mf9IGxrwJQ92gaA_TWFFryKtDyC-hY7dBd9lktW0HjaSw3SIEBWPP9M3XX6XELAX6nDwzSiQmVsBc_JMGY3Z57lyqEsNO7l4rbmAqiieP2c9kWktmThskhd0WUiM&smid=url-share

Phaeovirus
by Janie
 "Self" versus "other" delineations in biology are fascinating, from both a biological and conceptual standpoint. The example that probably leaps first into people's minds is the human microbiome: the more that is discovered about important microbes living on and in us, the more the concepts of "me"/"my"/"mine"...

Read more > https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/09/phaeovirus.html

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2558977/v1
Pre-print on strain analysis in the airways microbiome

We try to do strain analysis in metagenomes from the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal. Quite tricky samples to work with. None of the state-of-the art tools worked for us: Strainphlan, instrain, StrainGE.

We optimize the parameters of strainphlan to increase recall. We compared the strain resolution to culture and got congruent results.

Commentary and welcome by the President of @ALLEA on the UK signing an association agreement to Horizon Europe and Copernicus. Long overdue and great news for science.

https://allea.org/building-bridges-dismantling-barriers-uk-association-to-horizon-europe/

#HorizonEurope #Brexit #Copernicus

Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/11/eu-green-subsidies-biden-no-money-no-common-treasury

#News The Civil War continues

How to harm & demonize people seeking refuge in our country and stick it to those who will treat them as human beings?

Southern #Texas governor buses them to ONE Northern sanctuary city.

"Republican governors like Greg #Abbott of Texas have been sending thousands of migrants to New York City and other so called sanctuary cities. "

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-new-york-citys-migrant-housing-crisis-is-reaching-a-breaking-point

Where is the #DOJ?

Lobbying power of Amazon, Google and Co. continues to grow
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2023/09/lobbying-power-amazon-google-and-co-continues-grow

.@MartaShocket explores a #PLOSBiology study showing that, contrary to expectations, temperature fluctuations increased #parasite transmission, with implications for how #ClimateChange will impact infectious disease. Primer: https://plos.io/3r8zGud Paper: https://plos.io/3LhLykz

Meet the lab of Chema Martín-Durán @Chema_MD, based at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

The lab studies segmented worms with spiral cleavage to understand how development is controlled and evolves to generate new phenotypes #EvoDevo

https://thenode.biologists.com/lab-meeting-with-the-martin-duran-lab/

X-ray of the lungs, or handmade papersheet of early eighteenth-century with a ink accident and a slightly hidden watermark from the paper maker Ferdinand Faber used for musical notations ... @histodons #histodons #paperhistory

Common things are common, and when you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras!

With these teaching pearls, physicians are trained to focus on common and likely diagnoses. Unfortunately, the #Refeeding syndrome is not particularly common.

To explore if #MedicalAI can detect such uncommon diseases, we have developed a laboratory based algorithm for the #RefeedingSyndrome

https://doi.org/10.3238/arztebl.m2022.0381

We are now able to share prospective data:

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'Now, in eLife, François Mallard, Bruno Afonso and Henrique Teotónio from PSL University in Paris report a series of experiments that test how good the G matrix is at predicting future phenotypes'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/91450

'Aquellos chistes sobre crímenes orca-nizados no les hicieron mucha gracia a los investigadores de estos animales. Les preocupaba que la propagación de esas ideas de ataques y venganza, sin base científica, fomentase represalias contra las orcas ibéricas, una población de menos de 40 ejemplares que se encuentra en peligro crítico de extinción.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-09-10/por-que-las-orcas-golpean-los-veleros-una-moda-viral-entre-las-jovenes.html