Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Researchers can hold paradoxical beliefs about corrections: one, corrections are good for science; two, correcting their own work is bad. James Parry introduces our webinar on corrections with Lauren Flintoft and Gráinne McNamara, who both work on this on a daily basis.

#PublicationEthics #ScholComm #JournalEditing #JournalPublication

‘If the UK uses its new powers to scan people’s data, lawmakers will damage the security people need to protect themselves from harassers, data thieves, authoritarian governments, and others. Paradoxically, UK lawmakers have created these new risks in the name of online safety.’

Read more from @eff on the newly passed #OnlineSafetyBill.

#privacy #freespeech

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-undermined-privacy-security-and-freedom-all-internet-users

Welcome to Britain, where an elected member of parliament openly rages against “crime against humanity” COVID vaccines and a £12.50-a-day pollution charge is a “trojan horse” for government “control.”

Conspiracy theories are not a new force in British politics. But there’s mounting concern that, on a host of issues, once-fringe ideas are increasingly being ushered into the mainstream — with a little help from politicians.

https://www.politico.eu/article/conspiracy-theories-covid-vaccines-are-rife-in-british-politics/

#UK #Politics #ConspiracyTheories #Covid #ULEZ

Immunizing mice against bacterial #flagellin can prevent changes in #microbiota induced by #DietaryEmulsifier, as well as their deleterious consequences for intestinal health. @melissa_kordahi @BenoitChassaing &co #ProcessedFoods #UPF #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/48iOgjr

Vultures and influenza.

"Positive serological status of 2 individuals confirmed that they had been infected by HPAI viruses. Death was recorded for 3 of the 31 tracked individuals, whereas all others recovered and returned quickly to their foraging routine, although at least 9 birds failed breeding."

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)01000-X

'But doctors say some people seek out these drugs to lose as much weight as possible — and are dismayed and disillusioned when they stop. Some go off the drugs after they hit their plateau. When they do, they tend to regain the weight they lost.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/well/ozempic-weight-loss-plateau.html

'The AACR Maximizing Opportunity for New Advancements in Research in Cancer (MONARCA) Grant for Latin America represents an AACR initiative to address this need by promoting and supporting early-career investigators in Latin America to establish a successful career path in cancer research, thereby increasing and sustaining a cadre of talented cancer researchers in Latin America.'

https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-monarca-grant-latin-america/?utm_medium=linkedin&utm_source=social&sf181218003=1

'Orca hunting repertoires are enormously wide and complex. They typically share whatever they catch. Most groups specialise in hunting particular kinds of food – fish, sharks, seals, whales – and do not feed on anything else except under duress. This is not only to do with local conditions: in some areas, coastal fish-eating communities share waters with more pelagic whale-eating communities, but there is no social crossover.'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/francis-gooding/short-cuts

Have you heard of the FocalPlane Network?
The FocalPlane Network is an international directory of researchers with expertise in microscopy. It is designed to facilitate networking within the community.

Find out more from our members and join & access the Network now!
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/20/the-focalplane-network-connecting-the-microscopy-community/

"Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!"
Love's Pilgrimage (1911)

Upton Sinclair was born #OTD in 1878. He was a prolific American author who wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. via @wikipedia

Books by Upton Sinclair at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/88

#books #literature

We need to work out how to better treat biofilms of vascular grafts. In vitro models a good starting point
#IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #microbiology #antibiotics #AMR
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00474-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

This study of the #hemichordate #AcornWorm #Saccoglossus #NervousSystem reveals a complex neural plexus at the proboscis base that most likely acts as an integrative center, widespread transmitter release throughout the epithelium and no division between central and peripheral nervous systems @JMAndradeL @lab_lowe &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/46BtFWb

'But, as we have been learning pretty much continuously since 2000, the will of the majority of the American people no longer matters all that much in who is running their country.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/18/donald-trump-could-win-contingent-election

The UK has been a global leader on climate and has a lot to show for.

Weakening net zero policies will mean losing out on industry investment to other countries, higher costs to consumers and a damage to the UK's reputation internationally.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551