Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Some 100 Jewish organization leaders sign a letter accusing Elon Musk of making the social media platform formerly known as #Twitter, a “breeding ground for some of the most dangerous antisemitic discourse in America.” https://www.xouthate.org/

#FrenchPolitics
Europe’s rightward drift is not set in stone: our new research should give hope to the left
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/europe-right-research-left-voting-data-julia-cage-thomas-piketty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Interesting to see this reflection from a Nobel prize winner on the distrust of science and the abuse he received when talking about vaccines. Applaud his call for more investment in dialogue with the public. I have to say my experiences particularly since covid have been the level of distrust and anger to science is through the roof and I now regularly receive abuse for talking about vaccines and even Long Covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/25/tiktok-global-crisis-world-trust-scientists-online-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cortisol levels might be a biomarker for Long Covid

#COVID https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/25/health/long-covid-studies-test-treatment-development-wellness/index.html

What makes the effect of protein mutations difficult to predict? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.25.559319v1

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

Anaerobic #methanotrophic #archaea & sulfate-reducing #bacteria form a unique partnership in deep-sea ecosystems. @OrphanANME &co reveal a possible evolutionary trajectory of the bacterial partner towards this syntrophic lifestyle #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/46jNVuY

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

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