Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

This resonates.

A fabulous article - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/01/why-are-they-not-on-wikipedia-dr-jess-wades-mission-for-recognition-for-unsung-scientists

Research(er) assessment that considers open science - Leiden Madtrics https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/researcher-assessment-that-considers-open-science

'Similarly, the poorest communes have generally voted much more for the left, especially in cities. That remains true to the present day. The (often intentional) confusion comes from the fact that commentators tend to associate the working classes only with blue-collar manufacturing workers, forgetting that the average wage of supermarket cashiers, restaurant staff, cleaners, care workers and other service industry employees has fallen below that of manufacturing workers for several decades now.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/europe-right-research-left-voting-data-julia-cage-thomas-piketty?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

'These episodes made me experience first-hand a phenomenon that I was becoming increasingly familiar with: the vanishing of confidence in science. It seems almost a paradox: as our societies become more and more dependent on advanced technology based on scientific discoveries, people are becoming more and more suspicious of scientists.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/25/tiktok-global-crisis-world-trust-scientists-online-attack?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"É para já um projecto-piloto, mas a correr bem poderá vir a ser uma solução para mitigar os efeitos da falta de água na agricultura, em concreto na viticultura, e tornar mais eficiente o uso de um bem tão escasso e precioso."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/terroir/noticia/douro-implementa-piloto-reutilizacao-agua-rega-vinhas-2064527

"Our offices were just a short walk apart, and after meeting to discuss our suspicions, we began what has so far been a nearly 20-year collaboration to determine if phenylephrine was effective at the dosage available to consumers over the counter, and later, when we discovered it wasn’t, to petition the Food and Drug Administration to remove it from shelves."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion/cold-medicine-fda.html

Probably not.

"Liz Truss, it probably does not need saying, is no Bismarck."

https://www.ft.com/content/210ad29d-5071-4132-a0ec-5af93647dc0f?xnpe_tifc=4FPuOkYdbuh.bfbjhF4NOypJVdUZMds_OuxpOIL.x.VptfHp4DbA4kxZbCl8OkxltIx84Iz74.PN4uQ.xjpuhko8OIVJxFhsxke_4DzD

"Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, attacked Germany's center-left governing coalition for supporting migrants on Friday and boosted a call for the German people to support a far-right extremist party instead."

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-immigration-migrants-germany-far-right-extremism-twitter-x-2023-9

Tools

"Natural proteins are composed of 20 proteinogenic amino acids and their post-translational modifications (PTMs). However, due to the lack of a suitable nanopore sensor that can simultaneously discriminate between all 20 amino acids and their PTMs, direct sequencing of protein with nanopores has not yet been realized."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02021-8

El otro día la CEO de tuiter, Linda Yaccarino, dio una desastrosa entrevista en el evento Code 2023. Una entrevista de vergüenza ajena, con el público riéndose de ella cada vez que defendía a Musk. Pero entre tanto bochorno, Yaccarina dejó escapar un dato: Tuiter ha perdido más de 25 millones de usuarios activos desde que lo compró Musk:

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-daily-active-users-drop-under-elon-musk

T Cell Cross-reactivity in Autoimmune-like Hepatitis Triggered by COVID-19
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949928323000093

If you went to grade school more than 20 years ago and you think America is the country they told you it was in grade school, get a load of this list of books that are currently banned in Texas - it will change your mind. It certainly changed mine.

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/list-of-texas-banned-books-shows-state-has-most-in-us-17480532

This seems bad…

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Anyone who thinks fascism is something new in the US knows very little of the nation's history.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/fascism-in-america-book-trump

She worked on the Agena rocket, so important to the Apollo moon mission (shown) & was an author of the NASA Flight Handbook Vol. III about flight to Mars & Venus.

After retiring in 1973, she devoted her time to recruiting & mentoring women & Indigenous people to engineering. At 96 she participated in the opening ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian & left the museum $400,000 upon her death.

🧵5/5

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