Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Amusingly, it's not the first time an antibody vendor's images appear to have been recycled. I'm struggling find the PubPeer link, but still have the side-by-side paper-catalogue comparison:

A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.

“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.

Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.
https://apnews.com/article/oglala-sioux-reservation-governor-ban-south-dakota-9f811bbd1ffaadf979e4353ad6e961ad

From last week: After 15 years of declining teen birth rates, the trend is beginning to reverse itself ... starting with the end of Roe v Wade. A new study explains what we can expect next.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-teen-birth-rate-after-roe?utm_campaign=mastodon

#politics #news #USpol #HumanRights #abortion #healthcare

Debunked: Misleading NYT Anti-Trans Article By Pamela Paul Relies On Pseudoscience

“The opinion piece by Pamela Paul relies on routinely debunked disinformation and gets factual information wrong about transgender care. It is the latest NYT published piece to do so.”

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/debunked-misleading-nyt-anti-trans

"Black renters face a disproportionate share of evictions. Less than one in every five renters in America is Black (18.8%), but over half of all eviction filings are against Black renters (51.1%)."

While it is now illegal not to rent to someone based on race, it is widely acceptable to discriminate based on past evictions--who are disproportionately Black women.

Securing fair housing for all is essential for social justice.

https://evictionlab.org/who-is-evicted-in-america/#:~:text=Black%20renters%20face%20a%20disproportionate%20share%20of%20evictions.,eviction%20than%20any%20other%20group.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Animal of the day (141)

This tiny disco ball with a face is called a Hummingbird Bobtail Squid, and it doesn't get bigger than a couple of inches in length. Widespread throughout the tropical waters of the central Indo-Pacific area, it prefers sandy or fine sediment seafloors where it can easily bury itself in case of danger. It rests under the sand during the day and comes out at night to feed on small benthic crustaceans primarily. Its glowing abilities, which help hide its profile from being silhouetted by the moonlight, come from a bioluminescent bacteria with which it shares a symbiotic relationship.

#Wahnimals #animals #nature #ocean
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What must the inside of a lab be like for people to recycle images from antibody catalogues (amongst many other sources)?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/1/harvard-neuroscientist-research-misconduct/

https://pubpeer.com/publications/FF5706E8826CB8D45481E942A679EE

Of course, the institution “is committed to preserving the highest standards of biomedical research and fostering scientific innovation.”

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize foreign social media and push for antitrust legislation against them simply to better their portfolio made up of American big tech companies.

Measles: The Most Infectious Disease Known to Science – Why Adults Need an MMR Vaccine Booster https://scitechdaily.com/measles-the-most-infectious-disease-known-to-science-why-adults-need-an-mmr-vaccine-booster/ #science

Tom Gauld, spot on as usual. It's like when people ask me to recommend them cameras "that take good #photos" 🤷‍♂️

https://www.tomgauld.com/

#humour #comic #books

New neuron watercolors inspired by the drawings of pioneering neuroscientists Golgi and Cajal #sciart #watercolor #painting #art #neuroscience https://artologica.etsy.com

"The most interesting debate about leadership, then, is between those (like Machiavelli) who believe that leaders make (and overcome) history, and those (like Marx, and like the author of King David’s story) who believe that history makes (and constrains) leaders."

https://aeon.co/essays/who-are-the-leaders-in-our-heads-and-how-did-they-get-there

Ceci n'est pas un spreadsheet.

"A restaurant would not serve you a photo of the meal you ordered. If you have a spreadsheet, why would you save it as an image file? Not being able to copy and paste data or to clearly read it decreases the possibility of curation. Again, this can be solved simply by paying attention to proper formatting."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002477

Holy crap.

"Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In The Omelas Hole."

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/