Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

There is ‘no limit’, write Nesse and Williams, ‘to the precision and complexity of adaptation that the Darwinian process can generate’.

All hail natural selection!

… unless, of course, the needed mutations fail to occur. #evolution

Norway wants Facebook behavioural advertising banned across Europe.

Norway has told the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) it believes a countrywide ban on Meta harvesting user data to serve up advertising on Facebook and Instagram should be made permanent and extended across Europe.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/norway_facebook_behavioral_ads/

#Europe #Norway #EU #EuropeanDataProtectionBoard #EDPB #Facebook #Meta #Advertising #Privacy

I've started a substack! I'll be using it instead of Twitter threads to post about latest Covid situation, latest NHS stats etc.. easier to share here on Mastadon, but more importantly, ensures my content remains *free*!

Next week, I'll be posting about latest Covid situation but also a look back at all the data we *used* to have and common biases in Covid data !

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'However journal-level metrics fail to identify up to 90% of the equally well-cited papers in the biomedical research literature, controlling for field and year of publication (4). In other words, the recall of the biomedical community’s chosen measure of meritorious papers is on the order of a dismal 10%'

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556750v1

Laboratory Manager

Solgate GmbH

We are seeking to #recruit a Laboratory Manager. A unique opportunity awaits you at our Biotech Startup! Apply to join our international team #JoinUs

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/solgate-gmbh-27778-laboratory-manager/?feed_id=60278

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Klosterneuburg #Austria #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/solgate-gmbh-27778-laboratory-manager/?feed_id=60278

Dose-finding study of rituximab, lenalidomide, and ibrutinib (R2I) in relapsed/refractory mantle cell #lymphoma

Gives hope, but be aware there are many issues (too numerous to mention in a toot) with small single-arm studies, such as how many were relapsed versus refractory, and Quality of Life while on continuous treatment. Let's hope the study team confirms with a larger controlled study.

#MEDMASTODON #lymphoma #Cancer #fedscience
#ClinicalResearch #Oncology #Medicine #lymsm @majorajay

Wow! Who knew?

If medical staff upgrade their masks they can eliminate ward-based #covid infections in hospital? s/
#maskup
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/29/cambridge-hospitals-mask-upgrade-appears-to-eliminate-covid-19-risk-to-staff

"I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
The Mystics of Islam (1914) edited by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

Rūmī was born #OTD in 1207.

He was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. via @wikipedia

Books by Rumi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/43130

#books #literature

Jean Baptiste Perrin was born #OTD in 1870.

He was a French physicist who, in his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids (sedimentation equilibrium), verified Albert Einstein's explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter. For this achievement he was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1926. via @wikipedia

#books #science #physics

Ending the climate emergency is possible: “We know that the obstacles to keeping warming below catastrophic levels are not yet physical and they’re not technological – they’re political. But there’s some pretty big political obstacles right now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/30/human-civilisation-climate-scientist-prof-michael-mann

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

"Although RBP-J is recognized as a key inhibitor of TNF-mediated osteoclastogenesis, the precise mechanisms that restrain TNF-induced differentiation of macrophages into osteoclasts are not fully elucidated. In this study, we identified that the Notch ligand Jagged1 is a previously unrecognized RBP-J target."

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article-abstract/doi/10.4049/jimmunol.2300317/265946/Jagged1-Acts-as-an-RBP-J-Target-and-Feedback?redirectedFrom=fulltext

"Indeed, I started to avoid writing as much as possible, and was genuinely worried that my problems with writing would stop me from becoming a good scientist. I know I missed out on several job opportunities and conferences, for example, simply because I couldn’t bring myself to put together a cover letter or an abstract."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/92931?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Interesting study looking at disinformation and likelihood of taking up non conventional ‘treatments’ and avoid vax that extends previous studies suggesting it’s partisan. ‘Endorsement of vaccine-related misinformation, mistrust of health care institutions and scientists, and conspiratorial thinking related to politics were all associated with greater likelihood of using non–evidence-based treatments.’ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2809985

'Unlike bread-and-butter issues like wages, benefits and the terms and conditions of employment — topics over which management, according to labor law, must negotiate “in good faith” — technology, like business strategy, constitutes managerial prerogative. This means that the use of technology, such as artificial intelligence, exists in a bargaining gray area. If workers bring it up, employers can either open a negotiation or reply with a simple “No, thanks.” But the W.G.A. deal put A.I. squarely on the table.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion/wga-strike-deal-ai-jobs.html

The electron microscope is a prop, the Publico feature is on the future of PhD programs, a discussion the IGC hosted during the celebration of 30 years of the international program Antonio Coutinho created for the Gulbenkian in 1993.

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/28/estudiop/noticia/programas-doutoramento-igc-celebrar-passado-olhos-postos-futuro-2064313

"In 2017, almost a hundred years after insulin was ‘defensively’ patented for the express purpose of preventing unethical profiteering, Alec Smith was found dead in his Minneapolis home at only 26 years old. He had been diagnosed with T1DM two years previously, but seemed to have adapted well to the demands of insulin treatment. What had gone wrong? Smith’s great misfortune was that he had been lucky enough to be born a citizen of Earth’s wealthiest nation."

https://lithub.com/one-of-the-single-most-expensive-substances-on-the-planet-the-insulin-crisis-of-the-21st-century/

Mask by @madparreira

#Theater #SetDesign #HandMade #ArtGallery #TheaterArts #artmastodon

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