Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Who among us can honestly say we are capable of parsing a WhatsApp message from Dominic Cummings dated 23 August 2020 that reads: “I also must stress I think leaving Hancock in post is a big mistake – he is a proven liar who nobody believes or shd believe on anything, and we face going into autumn crisis with the cunt in charge of NHS still.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/boris-johnson-covid-inquiry-prime-minister

"This article is dedicated to researchers who aspire to more than just a temporary solution for data analysis. It's for those who are committed to developing a deeper understanding and proficiency in bioinformatics."

https://network.febs.org/posts/navigating-bioinformatics-a-self-learning-guide-for-wet-lab-scientists

'Virus-based vectors — particularly those based on adeno-associated virus (AAV) and lentiviruses — have dominated the first wave of gene therapies to gain regulatory approval. But their widespread deployment in dozens of clinical trials has exposed their limitations.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01824-6

'Nations have moved swiftly to tackle A.I.’s potential perils, but European officials have been caught off guard by the technology’s evolution, while U.S. lawmakers openly concede that they barely understand how it works.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/technology/ai-regulation-policies.html

"In the 18th century, a young French botanist named Michel Adanson traveled to Senegal to gather specimens. He spent the rest of his life back in France, laboring on an encyclopedic classification project that went mostly unpublished. Diop, a novelist of French Senegalese origin, imagines the Enlightenment cataloger as a man haunted ever since his return by a profoundly disorienting quest he embarked on during the trip: He set out to find a woman who had been abducted and sold into slavery, but who’d managed to escape captivity."

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/12/10-best-books-2023-emily-wilson-christina-sharpe/676179/

"Recent work has ascribed contributory roles for multiple immune cell types, such as monocytes/macrophages, neutrophils, T cells, B cells, dendritic cells, and mast cells, in disturbances in glucose and insulin homeostasis in obesity. In the central nervous system, microglia and their interactions with hypothalamic neurons affect food intake, energy expenditure, and insulin sensitivity. In addition to cell-specific contributions of central and peripheral immune cells in obesity, roles for interorgan communication have been described."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002448

Last day in Lisbon:

"FEIRA DO PRATO FALANTE December 5th & 6th at Campo de Ourique from 12h to 20h."
At atelier @almeida_felipa featuring @hunchbacksociety & more. #ceramics #Pottery #Handmade #stoneware

'The chaos at the heart of Britain’s handling of Covid-19 has been laid bare in recent weeks, with testimonies describing a “toxic” culture in Downing Street and how Johnson was “bamboozled” by scientific data.'

https://www.ft.com/content/bea342f8-9289-41cb-83ae-1e97c47e33fa