Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Even if none of us get to Mars, perhaps a less chaotic life awaits on the off-world colonies. I already mentioned Bluesky: there’s also Mastodon, with its riddles of entry; the unappealingly corporate Threads; or else Tumblr, Instagram and Tiktok – or even Facebook itself, antique, shattered, colossal and unusable. If we flee there, will the most deranged people on earth follow us? Will we miss them if they don’t? The knowledge that we’ll always be lied to arrives with psychological consequences. How ill do we no longer want (or need) to be?'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/november/twitter-dispersed

Herpetology. "Prato falante".
Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#proverbs #proverbios #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"The interviews and documents showed the White House’s shocking disregard for Cambodian lives and its failure to assess the impact of U.S. military actions, investigate alleged abuses or hold U.S. personnel to account."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/international-world/kissinger-cambodia-war-legacy.html

"Interstellar Lab founder and CEO Barbara Belvisi poses inside a BioPod module, a high-tech greenhouse controlled by artificial intelligence designed to grow plants and develop agriculture, to fight against climate change and in preparation for future life on Mars, at Interstellar Lab in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris, France, on November 27, 2023. #

Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters"

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2023/12/photos-of-the-week-origami-mosaic-ice-web-monkey-festival/676193/

Placental stress and Preeclampsia

“By comparing "normal" placentas with placentas from pregnancies where patients suffered from preeclampsia, investigators demonstrated that preeclampsia was associated with higher levels of cellular stresses in the syncytiotrophoblast layer on the placenta. …researchers found a hyperactive level of activity of the Gαq protein …present in excessive amounts during preeclampsia.”
#Preeclampsia #Pregnancy #Placenta #Science #Medicine

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-cellular-stress-placenta-preeclampsia.html

Hi Structural biologists! Here is our article that helps you make the case that the experiment is still very much needed.

https://rdcu.be/dsrSd

"AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination." Nature Methods (2023)

This is the Science Advances paper link (open access).

Mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant attenuates preeclampsia-like phenotypes induced by syncytiotrophoblast-specific Gαq signaling

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg8118

“People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams?”

The first sentence of this article is like a Black Mirror episode pitch that got immediately shitcanned because nobody wants to watch heavy-handed Marxist social critique based on an utterly implausible premise.

https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/amp/

I've written a piece on 'immune debt' and the many things it might be driven by.

Enjoy, and if you do, please Boosdt.

https://virologydownunder.com/what-is-immunity-debt/

1993: on alt.dreams.lucid, hackers discuss the best way to induce lucid dreaming so they can finally get back with that ex, at least in dreams.

2023. “Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers…
control… their dreams, so they can use that time productively.”

https://fortune.com/2023/11/30/lucid-dream-startup-prophetic-headset-prepare-meetings-while-sleeping/amp/

Argentina Marches Against Milei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWueUPfuE8s&ab_channel=red.

Unions and social movements played a crucial role in removing Macri from power in 2019; they will need to reorganize to stop the even more extreme neoliberal proposals of Javier Milei…

#Argentina #MarchesOn #Milei #Neoliberal #Policies

With new 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant funding, historian Matthias van Rossum
https://nitter.cz/IISG_Amsterdam
will study enslavement over the Atlantic & Indian Ocean - using source material that will finally provide access to the voices of the enslaved.
👉
https://iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/ERC
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23EndSlavery

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ERC_Research/status/1730904690165268629#m

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'X Prize, a US-based non-profit organisation, is offering $101mn — its largest ever prize — for research teams that can show they develop treatments that will restore key muscle, brain and immune functions for 65-to-80-year-olds.'

https://www.ft.com/content/2b604c01-b3e5-409b-b3f2-eefb74605461

"The band & the rhythm", the latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is now online. I spoke with John O'Neill & Andrew Beale about #CircadianRhythm in cells without nuclei and a detective story involving a mysterious band on a western blot.
#SciencePodCast #SciComm

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/the-band-and-the-rhythm/

" Tras varios encontronazos con la Iglesia y el régimen franquista, Llidó decidió marcharse a Chile, donde reforzó su compromiso con el pueblo y estableció relación con el presidente Salvador Allende, del que se cumplen 50 años de su muerte. Tras el golpe de Estado de Augusto Pinochet en 1973, fue detenido, torturado y asesinado por la dictadura, como sentenció un juez, si bien su cuerpo nunca se pudo recuperar. "

https://elpais.com/espana/comunidad-valenciana/2023-12-01/todos-recuerdan-a-antoni-llido-el-cura-desaparecido-que-proceso-a-pinochet-incluido-vox.html

How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58073295

RT by @joseggusmao: O Mayan e outros liberais e fachos já deram os parabéns ao Milei por esta escolha?

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SensIdiota/status/1730673294771196301#m

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