Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation can provide relief.

Whether TMS can “cure” depression “is an open question — there’s evidence for and against,” says David Pitcher, a cognitive neuroscientist who wrote an overview in the Annual Review of Psychology on using TMS to study human cognition.

Read more:
👉 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/TMS_Knowable
👉 AR Psychology https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-psych-081120-013144

#ScienceMastodon
#KnowableMagazine

TIL of a plant called Welwitschia, a living fossil, which existed before South America split from Africa (200m years ago), can live more than 2000 years and keeps the same two leaves its entire life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welwitschia
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16rw28w/til_of_a_plant_called_welwitschia_a_living_fossil/

September 25, 1961 - Herbert Lee, a farmer who worked with civil rights leader Bob Moses to help register black voters, was killed by a state legislator, E. H. Hurst, in Liberty, Mississippi. Hurst claimed self-defense and was acquitted by a coroner's jury the same day as the killing. Lewis Allen, who witnessed the shooting, said otherwise, and was himself murdered two years later.
#HerbertLee

Wow. Ordering the free #Covid home tests was pleasantly _not_ painful at all. Almost tooo easy for a government process...🤔

https://covid.gov/tests

The most comprehensive lab assessment of #LongCovid including the immune system, cortisol, other viral pathogens (such as EBV), & proteins differentiates those affected (aligned w/ self-reported symptoms) with very high (96%) accuracy
https://nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06651-y

Structure prediction of alternative protein conformations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.25.559256v1

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Censored Books

https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/the-brooklyn-public-library-gives-every-teenager-in-the-u-s-free-access-to-censored-books.html via @openculture

SWC Group Leader Professor Tiago Branco will give the 2023 Francis Crick Medal and Lecture at the Royal Society on Monday 23 October at 6.30pm BST.

He will discuss how his group is using mouse instinctive behaviours to answer the question -- how do millions of connected neurons generate behaviour?

Learn more and register to attend in-person or online:
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/10/francis-crick/

'LPS induced a sustained increase in IFNγ levels and unresolvable inflammatory lung injury in the mice lacking RGS2 but not in RGS2 null chimeric mice receiving WT bone marrow or receiving the RGS2 gene in alveolar #macrophage.'

#Preprint #immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.22.559016v1

Get 'em while they're hot

“O livro vai vender muito mais graças à lamentável intervenção deste grupo de extrema-direita. Vendo isto numa perspetiva que não é comercial: o livro vai ser lido por muitas mais crianças."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/sociedade/opiniao/bairro-estao-ficar-complicadas-2064453

"Herein we examine the heterogeneous cardiac macrophage response following ischemic injury, with a focus on integrating putative contributions of immunometabolism and implications for therapeutically relevant cardiac injury versus cardiac repair."

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/171953

"Me, I don't have the talent, or courage, to do stand up comedy. But I know all about crashing and burning. My last lovely, beautiful grant wasn't even discussed. I'm currently awaiting the bad reviews on the next one, while I'm writing yet another one. I work very hard, and no, it doesn't feel fair."

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/17/jcs261520/326613/The-system-I

'The dead were victims of what we too often label as “misinformation,” as though these victims succumbed to random junk on the internet. This was not always the case. The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement.'

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-22/antiscience-climate-change-covid-vaccines-antivax

"The dead were victims of what we too often label as “misinformation,” as though these victims succumbed to random junk on the internet. This was not always the case. The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-22/antiscience-climate-change-covid-vaccines-antivax

Nutter. Get rid, ASAP.

Remember, y'all in the United States can order 4 free COVID tests starting today. https://special.usps.com/testkits

@cyrilpedia also not too bad (alentejo)