Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Herd immunity by infection, lack of support for isolation, lack of ppe for frontline workers, toxic culture, flip flopping decision making, hairdryers up noses, bleach, aerosol transmission ignored until late… some of things this man will try to defend next week https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/02/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-appearance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Please share these 10 warning signs of possible #Alzheimers disease. Share concerns about your own cognitive #health or that of a loved one with the doctor and ask for a cognitive assessment (which is free as part of the #Medicare Annual #Wellness Visit).

#dementia #aging

@cyrilpedia justo unos días después de su fallecimiento, Eulalia Pérez Sedeño escribió una sentida nota recordándola

https://theconversation.com/evelyn-fox-keller-1936-2023-la-pionera-de-los-estudios-de-ciencia-y-genero-214545

casualmente llevo unos meses releyendo sus trabajos de los 90-2000 sobre genética

una gran pérdida para los SSS&T

Conversations about what Trump might do if reelected often ignore that he did or tried to do those things first time around. He'd just be less fettered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/30/trump-second-term-warnings/

Postdoctoral fellow: epigenetics of brain development and degeneration

Lund Stem Cell Center

Come to Lund Stem Cell Center!

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/lund-stem-cell-center-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-epigenetics-of-brain-development-and-degeneration/?feed_id=66722

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Lund #Sweden #Postdo...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/lund-stem-cell-center-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-epigenetics-of-brain-development-and-degeneration/?feed_id=66722

'Nature reported last month that China’s decoupling from the countries loosely described as the West mirrors its strengthening of science links with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), as part of its Belt and Road Initiative (see Nature 622, 669–670; 2023).'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03711-1?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1701268414

"Across the U.S., roughly 6 million adults 65 and over have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two thirds of them are women — a discrepancy that researchers have long attributed to genetics and women’s longer life spans, among other reasons. But there is growing consensus that menopause may also be an important risk factor for the development of dementia later in life."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/well/mind/menopause-dementia-risk-estrogen.html

UN says Israel has informed it that the visa for the world body's top humanitarian aid official for the Palestinian Gaza Strip and West Bank will not be renewed. Canadian-born Lynn Hastings has been in the post for nearly three years.

On today's final Indie SAGE briefing, Prof Alice Roberts spoke compellingly about the crucial role of the communication of science to society and how open and transparent communication egenders trust and enables the *best* use of science 1/3

When the RPMI is yellow...

"Notably, genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and related processes were largely up-regulated or suppressed in response to low (1%) versus normal (5%) or high (10%) CO2 exposure, respectively. This effect was largely independent of pH changes known to occur with varying CO2concentrations"

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002401

"Here, Zonozi et al. characterized the T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection in individuals lacking B cells due to treatment with rituximab or due to a primary immunodeficiency. Not only were virus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells elicited by both infection and vaccination, but the T cells exhibited greater reactivity and proliferative capacity as compared with controls."
#covid19 #covid #Immunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adh4529#supplementary-materials

"Goitre was embarrassing, ugly and a subject for humour, so Eggenberger began his presentation with the image of the Madonna from Albrecht Dürer’s Dresden Altarpiece: unimpeachable, unmockable and exhibiting, he claimed, an obvious goitre."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil

"These inequalities are compounded by how various neuroimaging techniques don’t serve Black patients well. Electroencephalography (EEG), which monitors electrical signals that emanate from the brain, is not optimized for Black hair, so participants may have to shave their heads or be excluded from studies completely. Increasingly popular light-based techniques, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), have not been corrected for those with higher melanin contents in their skin, which can lead to confounding or less accurate results. This has also been seen with pulse oximetry, a measure of oxygen saturation within your blood, a vital parameter in bedside patient monitoring."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/29/racism-in-neuroscience-brain-computer-interfaces-neurotechnology-research/

Getting fully vaccinated dramatically reduces the risk of Long COVID. Rates of Long COVID are finally going down & here's what we know so far: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/long-covid-rates-appear-to-be-decreasing/