Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Giving Drunk UK Man a run for his money...

"A drunk US man allegedly bit the arm of a flight attendant on a passenger jet headed to Seattle from Tokyo on Tuesday night, forcing the plane’s return to the Japanese capital, according to local reports."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/man-bites-flight-attendant-tokyo-plane

Squirrel! Glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#art #ceramics #stoneware #handmade #artgallery #stoneware

@madparreira.bsky.social

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"Jawed vertebrates have had at least two genome duplications, and Dr. Pascual-Anaya and his colleagues were curious whether the hagfish showed evidence of them too. They discovered that one of these duplications must have happened before the two groups of vertebrates split — the hagfish genome has signs of it — but the other was most likely after the fork in the evolutionary road. What’s more, they confirmed a suspicion other scientists had raised, that an ancestor of both the hagfish and the lamprey, another jawless wonder, at some point tripled its genome."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/science/hagfish-slime-eel-genome.html

'Our findings suggest that the GFRAL neuronal axis is key in coordinating the adaptive thermogenic response across multiple tissues and adipose depots, thereby ensuring metabolic homeostasis during mitochondrial stress.'
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.15.575796v1

'Museums house beautifully crafted scientific instruments and equipment from the past because we can appreciate their aesthetic features. The phenomena we study in the experimental setup – such as copper sulphate crystals, rainbows produced by prisms, and the microscopic structure of cells – can be beautiful too. But what made Foucault’s pendulum a beautiful experiment is more than its visual beauty. Far more importantly, it showed the effects of Earth’s rotation, something important that hadn’t been demonstrated before, and it did this in a clever, imaginative and elegant way. The pendulum itself was beautiful, but the ultimate beauty of the experiment is a combination of its significance and its design.'

https://aeon.co/essays/when-is-a-scientific-experiment-like-a-beautiful-work-of-art

'The changes are being implemented by a Conservative government that is focused on cutting immigration. The party also oversaw the vote for Brexit and its subsequent execution, which has made it harder for many international scientists to work in Britain and has prevented UK-based scientists from joining certain international collaborations.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00123-7

"Colitis is a frequent and severe adverse event in patients treated with antibodies targeting the checkpoint inhibitor cytotoxic T-lymphocyte protein 4 (CTLA-4), but the underlying mechanisms leading to this reaction remain unclear."

#Immunology #Immunotherapy

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh8342

At the Japanese Society of Immunology - pic is Sidonia's postdoc Baihao Zhang receiving an award for their work on GABA & B cells.