Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Cooperative bonobos.

“To have extended, friendly, cooperative relationships between members of other groups who have no kinship ties is really quite extraordinary,” said Joan Silk, a primatologist at Arizona State University who was not involved in the study.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.html

“Although we hope it’ll be a long time before we face the next global #pandemic, now is a great opportunity to reflect on how the scientists interfaced with the public as we faced the challenge of #COVID­19. There’s much for which we can be proud. Even so, thousands of people need­lessly lost their lives due to #misinformation & #disinformation. Now’s the time to develop better strategies for communication between scientists & the public” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00964-9

Very happy to share our new publication in PLOS ONE:

KIPEs3: Automatic annotation of biosynthesis pathways
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294342

Excellent work by Andreas Rempel (Bielefeld University) and Nancy Choudhary (@PuckerLab @tubraunschweig #Bioinformatics #OpenAccess

"Ultrastructure of the lamprey head mesoderm reveals evolution of the vertebrate head", by Onai et al. 2023 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422302415X

#neuroscience #evolution

How can this continue where social media companies happily let lies be used to promote elections? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/15/facebook-ads-2020-election-rigged-stolen-instagram-policy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BREAKING: In a bombshell, The Nation reports today that Israel is operating a phony front group in the US to spy on pro-Palestinian students on college campuses – all blatantly illegal under US law. NY Times is ignoring.
FBI has done nothing to stop it.⤵️
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists/

#FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #gaza #westbank #occupation #endaidtoisrael #endisraeliapartheid #genocide #savegaza #gaza #repression #antizionist #antifacist #resistance #justice #israelhamaswar

@DrALJONES Here is an interesting read

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-so-far-falls-well-short-of-al-shifa-hospital-being-hamas-hq

'We report that Drosophila A virus (DAV) infection disrupts intestinal homeostasis in Drosophila by inducing sustained ISC proliferation, resulting in intestinal dysplasia, loss of gut barrier function, and reduced lifespan.'

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.16.567400v1

British Archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his wife Catherine at the moment of the discovery of pottery pipes that were used as a sewage and rainwater network in what is considered the first water drainage system in history before about 4000 BC, Ur (Mesopotamia), moden-day Iraq, in 1930.

#archaeohistories

So #ElonMusknis planning to sue my friends at Media Matters.
"The split second court opens on Monday, X Corp will be filing a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters and ALL those who colluded in this fraudulent attack on our company.."

Not just any lawsuit, a "thermonuclear" one!

He's made this threat before, only at advertisers, but didn't follow through. Pissing off the advertisers doesn't = increased revenue. So he sued my friends at The Center for Countering Digital Hate instead.

Seriously? New Environment Sec has taken money from major backer of a climate-denying think-tank. Why did Barclay accept donation? What discussions has he had with Hintze before & since receiving it? Does he agree with GWPF climate-denial? We need answers
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/17/steve-barclay-environment-secretary-donation-lord-hintze-climate-sceptic-thinktank

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1725528048156430382#m

[2023-11-17 14:55 UTC]

'In this Brief Review, we discuss recent findings that inform the design of the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines. In the context of prior SARS-CoV-2 evolution, we discuss strategies under investigation for the induction of broadly neutralizing Abs (bNAbs) to restrict SARS-CoV-2. Additionally, we examine recent evidence for the importance of mucosal immunity in restricting SARS-CoV-2 transmission. We further consider the challenges associated with these next-generation vaccine strategies, including overcoming “original antigenic sin”'
#covid #Covid19 #sarscov2 #vaccines #Immunology

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/211/10/1459/266281/Challenges-and-Prospects-in-Developing-Future-SARS

#TBT, from early 2022:

The #EMBOpodcast with immunologist Matteo Iannacone, & neuroscientist Katrin Franke.
#Immunology #Neuroscience #SciComm #SciencePodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/embo-young-investigators-past-and-present/