Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

If you're in Lisbon in December:

"Save the date 🍽️ FEIRA DO PRATO FALANTE ➰ 5&6 de Dezembro 🍽️ Pop Up no atelier em Campo de Ourique.

Save the date ➰ next pop up at the studio 5&6 of December ➰more details soon." @madparreira.bsky.social

#ceramics#Ceramic #pottery #Handmade #artgallery

'In an ingenious study published this summer, US researchers showed that within a few months of the launch of ChatGPT, copywriters and graphic designers on major online freelancing platforms saw a significant drop in the number of jobs they got, and even steeper declines in earnings.'

https://www.ft.com/content/b2928076-5c52-43e9-8872-08fda2aa2fcf

Livro do Agualusa, capa da Lia Ferreira.

The cover of this week's Lancet and the accompanying article on the UK Covid inquiry by the Editor-in-Chief

https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02504-7/fulltext

Imagine if this was done in the United States

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/blowback/

#gaza #counterterrorism #blowback #collateralmurder

New article! Read Enhancing breadth and durability of humoral immune responses in non-human primates with an adjuvanted group 1 influenza hemagglutinin stem antigen https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00772-1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon in npj Vaccines

😢😢😢 but also the water companies got away with too much for too long https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/11/photographer-project-wildlife-lost-pollution-yorkshire-river-wharfe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Group B streptococci adapt to survive in inflammation of diabetic wounds
#IDMastodon #infectiousdiseases #diabetes #microbiology #bacteria
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add3221

Tools

"Here we present a new optogenetic CRISPR tool, BLU-VIPR, that diverges from prevailing split-Cas design strategies and instead focuses on optogenetic regulation of gRNA production."

#Crispr #Optogenetics #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.09.566272v1

"Ultimately, however, Factor VIII killed many of those who infused it in the 1970s and 1980s. For decades, British officials and ministers claimed that the contaminated blood scandal was a tragedy no one could have prevented: when haemophiliacs began to be infected, hepatitis C hadn’t even been named, and HIV/Aids was entirely unknown; new protocols were introduced once the dangers became clear. According to Margaret Thatcher, ‘all patients received the best treatment available in light of the medical knowledge at the time.’ These claims were not true."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n22/florence-sutcliffe-braithwaite/we-ve-messed-up-boys

Just a few months after the launch of ChatGPT, copywriters and graphic designers (freelancers) have been affected by a significant drop in the number of contracts received, and in those that have received them - a drop in earnings. being more skilled was no shield against loss of work or earnings. Being more skilled was no shield against loss of work or earnings
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4527336 #ai #aftificialintelligence #chatgpt #gpt

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3379

The updated WHO recommendations for Covid treatment

“In sum, there is no denying that women’s path to leadership positions is paved with many barriers including a very thick glass ceiling. But a much bigger problem is the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men [..] The result is a pathological system that rewards men for their incompetence while punishing women for their competence, to everybody’s detriment.”
https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men

#Gaza Patients and medical staff trapped in hospitals under fire - ATTACKS MUST STOP NOW!