Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Fifty years on, the US role in overthrowing the socialist government of Salvador Allende is not a secret. But as documents that surfaced over the past couple months should remind us, there’s still a whole lot that’s being kept from us about this shocking crime.'

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/chile-coup-cia-henry-kissinger-richard-nixon-documents-foia-salvador-allende/

'Next week, world leaders will meet in New York City to assess progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There’s no varnishing it: the meeting will be a damp squib. Halfway to the SDGs’ 2030 deadline, none of the 17 goals to end poverty and protect the environment is on track, and only 15% of the 140 targets for which data are available look likely to be met.,

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02807-y?error=cookies_not_supported&code=b680db63-43c4-4f74-bdc0-e947436aa339&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1694425945

A tiny wasp drilled its ovipositor through a petri dish. Through a f#$%^g petri dish. Multiple f$$%^g times. Like, I can't even...

#wasp #entomology #insect

https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.107786

This #TechnicalTuesday we’re highlighting @haesleinhuepf 's post describing how to organise an international symposium. Robert organised the recent #PoLBIAS23 and shares his recommended timeline for organising a successful event.
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/05/a-schedule-for-organizing-international-symposia/

The sun is finally rising again on UK association to Horizon Europe - my blog for WonkHE to celebrate many years of work by many people https://wonkhe.com/blogs/got-horizon-done/

Civil rights groups attacked by #ElonMusk are mounting a counteroffensive

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/civil-rights-groups-attacked-elon-musk-are-mounting-counteroffensive-rcna103579

@proteomicsnews blog post | HLA peptide identification in 200uL of plasma!! | https://proteomicsnews.blogspot.com/2023/09/hla-peptide-identification-in-200ul-of.html #proteomics

"Headlines announce that transmission is surging and hospitalizations for Covid are rising by alarming percentages. There’s debate in some places about whether or not to resume wearing masks. People are worrying about whether the latest subvariant, BA.2.86, spells bad news for our fall and winter, and whether soon-to-be-released booster shots will be a match for it or whatever variant follows."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/10/covid-cases-rise-new-normal-coronavirus/

Cephalopod in progress.
#Ceramics #pottery #handmade #art #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"Yet research has found that many Americans—particularly Black Americans—have not bought into the promise of ACP. Advocates say that such plans are especially important for Black Americans, who are more likely to experience racial discrimination and lower-quality care throughout the health-care system. Advance care planning, they say, could help patients understand their options and document their wishes, as well as reduce anxiety for family members."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/end-of-life-advance-care-planning/675273/

'In orders such as Chiroptera (bats), in which the authors infer a high tolerance to immunopathology and high levels of constitutive immunity, the expected (and observed) virulence is high. The expected virulence could be even higher in Monotrema (suggesting that you definitely should not kiss a platypus), but there currently is no data on emerging viruses from this order.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002286

Great moments in copyediting:

“Before Atwater died, of brain cancer, in 1991, he expressed regret…” Yagoda wrote, “No other publication would put a comma after ‘died’ or ‘cancer’. The New Yorker does so because otherwise (or so the thinking goes), the sentence would suggest that Atwater died multiple times & of multiple causes." 

#books #bookshelf #writing #bookstodon

New podcast episode out today! Dr. Anand Padmanabhan discusses his exciting successes developing new diagnostics and treatments for deadly blood clotting conditions, his path to becoming a physician-scientist, challenges he has faced, his interests outside the lab, and more!

https://www.peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-anand-padmanabhan/

#science #research #bloodclots #STEM #podcasts #podcast #medicine #diagnostics #therapeutics

For years, Ginni Thomas has acted with complete impunity, mixing her extreme politics with the judicial system and skirting right up to the edge of what was lawful. But there was nothing likely illegal to pin on her.

Until now. My piece today explains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/what-about-ginni?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

I'm very sad to learn of the death of Professor Sir Ian Wilmut.

I've lost count of the number of undergraduates, PhD students, and postdocs who have told us that it was Ian's remarkable work that inspired them to become scientists, and to study at Edinburgh.

Ian was the founding director of our Centre, the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and we have much to thank him for.