Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Anyone who cares about scientific publishing* in biomedical sciences should read this piece by @richardsever

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234

* the fact that few people do might explain why things are in such a state.

@cyrilpedia

My answer? Bend over backward to fund a more diverse range of people and ideas, even deliberately including ideas that are currently perceived as unpopular, unworkable, obscure, and the like. After all, many scientific discoveries can be traced back to origins that didn’t seem promising — like CRISPR, which began with a Spanish study on salt-loving archaebacteria in 1993 — or even to ideas that are actively opposed by the establishment.

To be sure, the success rate of this approach might be low. But if we funded 10,000 people who looked like a younger Karikó, and only one of them did something that would have the impact of her mRNA research, that would be well worth it.

Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths

https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-how-did-they-do-it.html via @openculture

NEW: Food prices in Europe have been soaring. Earlier this year, the Austrian government said it would build a price database to let people compare costs at different supermarkets. It said this would take months to make and only include a small number of product categories.

Within 2 hours, @badlogic had built a first prototype, pulling the data from supermarket's websites, and open sourced the project. Now Heisse Preise lists 177,000 products from 10 chains.

The transparency has allowed prices to be compared: and the results appear to show supermarkets are watching each other and adjusting their prices based on others. The competition authority is investigating and already said new laws should make supermarkets publish proper APIs with full item data

https://www.wired.com/story/heisse-preise-food-prices/

#opensource #data #tech #news

FDA authorizes Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine

https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/03/fda-authorizes-novavaxs-updated-covid-19-vaccine/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

I'm very glad to see this paper out! @Phylogenetrips has done amazing work on detecting positive selection taking into account population variation in a phylogenetic framework. #phylogenomics #MolecularEvolution #NaturalSelection https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_evobio/111169917451799911

Spatial single-cell mass spectrometry defines zonation of the hepatocyte proteome - Nature Methods https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02007-6

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#proteomics #prot-paper

What you see in this image are the blood vessels of the brain in a one-day old zebrafish. To visualize data such as these, scientists use transgenic reporter lines that light up the blood vessels with specific fluorophores and state-of-the-art light-sheet microscopes.

#microscopy #microscopyart #scienceart #scienceartist #scienceartwork #sciart #sciartist #scienceandart #sciencecommunication #ScienceComm #scicomm #scicom #microscopy #microscopyart #imageanalysis #imageprocessing #dataanalysis

What was #ElonMusk’s strategy for #Twitter?

A year after the world's richest man acquired the #SocialMedia platform, a #GamePlan published by a fired #Trump White House staffer provides a clue.

"The three texts were sent on April 4, 2022. In the nearly 18 months since then, many of the decisions #Musk made after he bought Twitter appear to have closely followed that #RoadMap, up to and including his ongoing attacks against the ADL..."

#TwitterTakeover #Antisemitism

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/was-elon-musks-strategy-twitter-rcna118490

Scientist/Lead Researcher/Senior Researcher

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/scientist-lead-researcher-senior-researcher/?feed_id=60534

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Memphis #UnitedStatesUS #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/scientist-lead-researcher-senior-researcher/?feed_id=60534

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” —  Ursula K. Le Guin

From the story The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. #ursulakleguin #quote

Microbe Talk: Conversations on Collaboration: Hilary Lappin-Scott on cultivating international partnerships | Microbiology Society https://microbiologysociety.org/blog/microbe-talk-conversations-on-collaboration-hilary-lappin-scott-on-cultivating-international-partnerships.html

⚠ Meta will apparently to move to a "Pay for your Rights" model in the European Union!

EU users would then have to pay $ 168 a year if they don't want to give up their fundamental right to privacy on Facebook and Instagram. This move is inacceptable.

https://noyb.eu/en/meta-facebook-instagram-move-pay-your-rights-approach

"The aesthetic potential of scientific #data"

"In a world where #innovation thrives at the intersection of disciplines, every #science lab should welcome the presence of an artist."

#research #art via @TheConversationUK

https://theconversation.com/every-science-lab-should-have-an-artist-on-the-team-heres-why-211636

"Back at the turn of the 21st century, valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases a year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades later, cases of valley fever have exploded, increasing roughly sevenfold by 2019."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/09/fungal-disease-climate-change-threat/675515/

"Suella Braverman’s latest assertionthat multiculturalism has “failed” proved that when it comes to immigration, we have moved away from dog whistles and back towards the sort of Powellite language that, even decades ago, was considered beyond the pale."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/02/suella-braverman-migrant-uk-multiculturalism