Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Human rights activist and Scientist Rebellion co-founder Mike Lynch-White was imprisoned ten months ago for peacefully disrupting a factory providing weapons to Israel. In his own words, "the world has watched a genocide in slow motion."

Mike was arrested at the UK border in February and was sentenced to 23 months in prison in May for criminal damage after climbing onto the roof of Runcorn-based factory APPH. He received a longer sentence due to previous climate-related actions.

We’re looking for Workshops and Special Events for the 3rd Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montréal! Workshops and special events are a great way to build community around a theme, concept, or approach, so consider hosting if you have an idea! More information here:

https://www.evolutionmeetings.org/workshops-and-special-events.html

Listen to Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. He charged that his network gave too friendly an interview with Trump, and in so doing it “put in doubt the independence of our news department.” Ramos added that Univision cannot “offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories." Let it be a warning to all news media.

“Orchids have interested me as much as almost anything in my life,” Darwin wrote. In their forms, he saw a vast landscape of the forces of selective evolution, a dance they played with their environment and their pollinators. “My little darlings,” as he sometimes referred to orchids, became his model for further exploring the forces he so broadly described in The Origin of Species. Just three years after the publication of that shattering work, he had produced his tome puzzling over the multitudinous, striking habits of orchids: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.'

https://nautil.us/why-is-everything-an-orchid-424338/?ref=thebrowser.com

'Instead, the social media giant “routinely continued to collect” children’s personal information, like their locations and email addresses, without parental permission, in violation of a federal children’s privacy law, according to the court filing.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/technology/instagram-meta-children-privacy.html

'What went wrong? It isn’t that the past 25 years of consciousness studies haven’t been productive. The field has been incredibly rich, with discoveries and applications that seem one step from science fiction. The problem is that, even with all these discoveries, we still haven’t identified any neural correlates of consciousness. That’s why Koch lost the bet.'

https://aeon.co/essays/are-we-ready-to-study-consciousness-in-crabs-and-the-like

It's difficult to explain how great the original Netflix DVD service was - how much better than instantly streaming Vin Diesel it was to be able to get in a day or two anything from the Criterion Collection, for example.

https://www.thesmartset.com/the-long-goodbye/?ref=thebrowser.com

#^Battling implicit bias


Training is a cheap solution to a hard problem. It is the systems that allow for biased behaviour that need to change
- by Jeffrey To

Read at Aeon

Tunnelling #nanotube formation is driven by #Eps8/#IRSp53-dependent linear #actin polymerization
Michael Henderson, Chiara Zurzolo, Patricia Bassereau and coworkers
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023113761

"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Lazarus Laughed

Eugene O’Neill American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936 died #OTD in 1953. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism. The tragedy Long Day's Journey into Night is often included on lists of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century. via @wikipedia

Books by Eugene O'Neill at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1359

#books #theatre

‘No no no. Avoid them all’: anti-vaccine conspiracies spread as UK cases of measles increase

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/25/no-no-no-avoid-them-all-anti-vaccine-conspiracies-spread-as-uk-cases-of-measles-increase

Q: You prepared to do this piece by taking a course online on linear algebra?

A: I did.

https://thebrowser.com/r/f67af8b4?m=0c06178b-c7c0-4ab5-8312-99e77a4e90ff

"We genetically rendered a single MALT1 substrate, the RNA-binding protein (RBP) Roquin-1, insensitive to MALT1 cleavage. These Rc3h1Mins/Mins mice showed normal immune homeostasis."
#Immunology #autoimmunity

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309205120