Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'For German contemporaries, the leitmotif of 1923 was uncertainty. At different times the country seemed on the brink of civil war, communist revolution, military dictatorship, societal implosion, or a combination of the above. As the academic Victor Klemperer noted in his diary: “Every day you say that a catastrophe must arrive, without knowing which one”.'

https://www.ft.com/content/67aeb1f8-060e-47f5-b341-50373327972f

"(...) in 2022, the College Board boasts, roughly 1.2 million students took more than four million A.P. exams in public high schools throughout the country. And when I teach a first-year writing course, or an introductory course in the English major, I inevitably spend the first few weeks undoing the damage the A.P. system does to how students understand both writing and the study of literature."

https://newrepublic.com/article/173547/ap-classes-waste-time-annie-abrams-education-book-review

Quality standards in proteomics research facilities: Common standards and quality procedures are essential for proteomics facilities and their users - Zurich Open Repository and Archive https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/210808/

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#proteomics #prot-paper

"We established the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) to design and implement a randomized, controlled, blinded, multi-laboratory trial for the rigorous assessment of candidate stroke treatments combined with intravascular thrombectomy."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adg8656

One of Madalena's giant tsuba prints emerging from the press.

#Art #ArtGallery #Printmaking #Prints #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com

It’s not Groundhog Day: Even more Clarence Thomas corruption has been uncovered by @ProPublica.

A George W. Bush-appointed judge says these newest revelations about Thomas fundraising for the Koch brothers “takes my breath away.” https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

@s3thi

Any commercial social media platform will quickly face the same fate as Twitter. The oil industry has an insatiable appetite for investments that subvert democracy.

Efforts to disrupt the formation of communities are deliberate.

Fascist movements always co-opt mechanisms for communications & organization
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich
India faces its own anti-democracy threats from its own elites, just like the USA & UK
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/world/canada/hardeep-singh-nijjar-killed.html
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/15/opinion/canada-ukraine-oil-gas-fuels-fascism
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fossil-fuels-fascism-narendra-modi

2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions - Kapahi lab

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

The #Kapahi lab at the #Buck Institute is inviting applicants for 2 #postdoc positions using bioinformatic approaches from flies and humans.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-pos...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-positions-kapahi-lab/?feed_id=59655

'One lesson is that when it comes to technology, we’re lazy. We reach for the nearest familiar tool without thinking about whether it’s the right one for the job, or even thinking clearly about what the job is. Are we trying to think through a problem? Get a discussion going? Show people that worth-a-thousand-words picture? We skip that vital contemplative step and load up a slide template instead. Because everyone can use PowerPoint, everyone does.'

https://www.ft.com/content/728cb9a0-aa62-4cdd-a16a-cf3c7cb78b17

'Much of the controversy arises from differing views on the defining characteristics of eukaryotes. We argue that eukaryotes should be defined phylogenetically, and that doing so clarifies where competing hypotheses of eukaryogenesis agree and how we may test among aspects of disagreement.'

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00987-9

'Buenos ejemplos son los vinos procedentes de las colinas de la Toscana en Italia, los viñedos de terrazas en el valle del Duero en Portugal, la Región de Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes en Francia, las laderas empinadas del Mosela en Alemania, o el Valle de Aosta, región del Véneto y la Lombardía en Italia.'

https://elpais.com/gastronomia/beber/2023-09-21/ocho-grandes-vinos-de-viticultura-heroica.html

'Para Luís Menezes Leitão existem os superiores interesses dos senhorios e pouco mais. Nem uma palavra acerca das circunstâncias em que se encontram milhares de inquilinos e outros tantos que nem conseguem arrendar casa.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/22/opiniao/opiniao/travao-aumento-rendas-luis-menezes-leitao-travao-2064199

What does disgust for disabled people look like in its purest, most densely crystallized form, like a black diamond of hatred spat out by one of the most twisted, hollowed-out, f*cked-up criminals in US history? Imagine supporting this man and calling yourself a "patriot," a "Christian," or even a "human being"? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/

This is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. We are the dystopia now.

I remember when even anti-abortion politicians were careful to say they would never criminalize the pregnant women. Now Nebraska is imprisoning a mother who helped her teenage daughter with an abortion pill.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/22/burgess-abortion-pill-nebraska-mother-daughter

#introduction Hi all, I recently switched instances and am getting my profile set up. If you followed me on my old instance I'll not be using that anymore.
I am a PhD candidate in Albert Einstein College of Medicine, working with #intrinsic #manifolds and #decisionmaking , doing some visual cortex research by coincidence.

Overdue #introduction #1stToot

Hi 👋🏼! I’m a #neuroscience Instructor in Rudebeck’s lab at #MountSinai NY.

Strong focus on animal #learning #DecisionMaking #Reward #valuation and how #prefrontal #subcortical regions represent these and interact at the level of #neurons and #LFP.

Proponent of recording neurons in too many areas simultaneously, and a #Matlab enthusiast (I know.. I complain about it too!).

Off lab, you will find me #biking , pushing a #stroller , and/or enjoying #beers.