Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Although epigenetic mechanisms silence most ERVs by generating a repressive environment that prevents their expression (heterochromatin), little is known about mechanisms silencing ERVs residing in open regions of the genome (euchromatin)."

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00903-6?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"The shabby collusion with Stalinism of Sartre and his circle meant that almost any dissident from eastern Europe was regarded as a traitor. Ironically, when his move to the USA was first mooted, he was, in that McCarthyite era, seen by some as dangerously compromised by communism."

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-poets-burden

'Solomon contacted South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond for help. Thurmond insisted the film distributor withdraw the film, telling them, “My folks take their religion very seriously.” The distributor replied, “We take our freedoms very seriously, too.”

https://lithub.com/when-the-culture-wars-came-for-monty-pythons-life-of-brian/

Chimeric Xenopus, Photo by M. Pazdera.

"More idiotic things may get done in the name of meeting year-end numerical goals than for any other reason in this industry, so thanks, but I'll try to ignore the recommendation to do them some more, but good and hard this time."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/andy-grove-rich-famous-smart-and-wrong

"Surpersized portraits pasted on to the houses of a favela in Rio de Janeiro in 2008 .  

© Alamy"

https://www.ft.com/content/b0e163b9-4604-4ea6-a4e5-255cc5805cd5

'La semana pasada, cuando se logró una pausa en los ataques para intercambiar rehenes israelíes en manos del movimiento islamista Hamás por presos palestinos, los gazatíes descubrieron también que la mayor biblioteca pública había sido bombardeada y lo interpretaron como un “intento deliberado de destruir libros y documentos históricos”.

https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2023-12-10/las-bombas-israelies-pulverizan-el-sistema-educativo-de-gaza-y-el-futuro-de-una-sociedad-donde-no-habia-analfabetismo.html

"Después de una vida dedicada a la enseñanza, sobre todo en la provincia de Palencia, Ramiro Curieses, que ha sido maestro de infantil y primaria, docente y director en secundaria, y profesor asociado en la Universidad de Valladolid, está convencido de que una de las claves del buen resultado de las tres comunidades es la escuela rural, que las administraciones autonómicas y los Ayuntamientos protegen pese a su coste para intentar frenar la despoblación"

https://elpais.com/educacion/2023-12-10/el-triangulo-de-oro-de-la-educacion-en-espana-aqui-todo-el-mundo-tiene-claro-que-o-estudias-o-no-tienes-futuro.html

'Another implication of their study is that our ancestors enjoyed a malaria-free existence right up until the neolithic transition 10,000 years ago when, coincident with the shift from nomadic to agrarian lifestyles, Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, mutated to target Neu5Ac so abundantly present on human cells. It is thought that our more agricultural lifestyle made humans more vulnerable to the malaria-carrying mosquitoes that bred in stagnant pools near settlements.'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/10/sugar-coating-cells-illness-pathogens-evolutions-glycans-sialic-acids

“A nova entomoteca vai permitir, pela primeira vez, juntar no mesmo espaço toda a colecção de insectos do Muhnac”, refere Roberto Keller, mexicano, curador de entomologia do Muhnac. “É uma biblioteca de insectos!”

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/10/local/noticia/ha-nova-biblioteca-insectos-lisboa-tesouro-biodiversidade-2071882

"The new strategy calls on physicists to begin laying the groundwork for a revolutionary particle collider that could be built on American soil. The machine would collide tiny, point-like muons, which resemble electrons but are more massive."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/science/particle-physics-muon-collider.html