Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Havent read his new book yet, but When We Cease to Understand the World is fantastic.

"En esta entrevista, Labatut habla sobre su última novela, MANIAC, que publicó en español Anagrama el 25 de octubre. Es una obra de ficción basada en hechos reales, que tiene como protagonista a John von Neumann"

https://elpais.com/babelia/2023-10-28/benjamin-labatut-la-revelacion-de-las-letras-latinoamericanas-que-exorciza-los-demonios-de-la-ciencia.html

Stephen King’s 22 Favorite Movies, Packed with Horror & Suspense

https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/stephen-kings-22-favorite-movies-packed-with-horror-suspense.html

El elemento más pesado jamás encontrado en la atmósfera de un exoplaneta

Un equipo científico internacional, en el que participa personal investigador del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), ha descubierto el elemento más pesado jamás encontrado en la atmósfera de un exoplaneta: el bario. Se ha encontrado en las capas más altas de las atmósferas de los exoplanetas WASP-76 b y WASP-121 b, dos gigantes gaseosos ultracalientes. El inesperado hallazgo, que ha sido posible gracias al instrumento ESPRESSO del Very Large Telescope (VLT) del Observatorio Europeo Austral (ESO), plantea preguntas sobre cómo pueden ser estas atmósferas exóticas.

Lee la entrada completa en el blog https://lasendadeapolo.es/2022/11/26/el-elemento-mas-pesado-jamas-encontrado-en-la-atmosfera-de-un-exoplaneta/

#exoplaneta #astrofisica #iac #atmosfera

I shitcanned my Twitter 2 weeks ago.

Left behind 30,000 followers.

Only have 1000 here.

But I still get more traffic to my writing...

Which should tell you something about Birdchan.

Anyway, repost to support an indie transgender tech writer and journalist! ✍️🍕🏳️‍⚧️

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of 5 or 6 whales, presumably for protection. No one knew whales slept vertically until a 2008 study documented the behavior. And no one captured really good photography of it in the wild until 2017 with Patrick Dykstra documenting sperm whales.
Credit - Mr. Patric Dykstra

Oct 27 EWE: France — One year after France's Gironde wildfires, bark beetles attack forests. In the forest of La Teste-de-Buch, in south-western France, 3,500 hectares went up in flames last year. Since then, loggers have worked overtime, fighting a war on two fronts: to cut down and sell on the burnt wood for whatever it might still be good for, and also limit the spread of the bark beetle, a winged insect capable of colonising trees within a 10 to 20-kilometre radius. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/down-to-earth/20231027-one-year-after-france-s-gironde-wildfires-bark-beetles-attack-forests

#IDMastodon #psychiatry Understanding barriers to #COVID19vaccine hesitancy , uptake & Vaccine breakthrough in people with #mentalhealth conditions.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.27.23297663v1.full.pdf
Results of vaccination studies showed no major changes in hematological markers following mRNA vaccine, except for mild , temporary decrease in neutrophils , WCC & raised #clozapine plasma levels, which were not linked to major adverse effects

Thanks to Miguel Godinho Ferreira & Karina Xavier for the invitation to teach in the "From Cells to Organisms" module in the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia PhD program.

Here's a classic reading recommendation for anyone interested in the topic who's looking for a starting point.

"It is unpopular with the general public and seen as un-American to admit someone based on who their parents are rather than on merit. But there was never any real political appetite to change it.”

https://www.ft.com/content/24c0e2c4-dd36-4264-ac85-9f5f8fb1dc4d

The Beautifully Illustrated Atlas of Mushrooms: Edible, Suspect and Poisonous (1827)

https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/the-beautifully-illustrated-atlas-of-mushrooms-edible-suspect-and-poisonous-1827.html

Assistant Professor

University of Iowa Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-iowa-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology-27778-assistant-professor/?feed_id=63656

#ScienceJobs #h...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-iowa-biochemistry-and-molecular-biology-27778-assistant-professor/?feed_id=63656

"Elon is garbage, and this place is now a white supremacist Nazi haven." So said, correctly, @badastro when he completed his exit from X, where he had 600K followers.

Phil is an amazing science explainer and nonsense debunker. Do consider giving him a follow here :-)