Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

This pastor has guts

True story.

@drsbaitso @malwaretech

All meritocracy is just a capitalist propaganda psyops. It hides the fact that most of success is just pure assed luck.
Where were you born?
Who were your family?
How much can one depend on the “halo effect” of lucky dna?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/

"As the world is just beginning to recover from the devastation of Covid-19, it is facing the possibility of a pandemic of a far more deadly pathogen."
Grim
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html

Please be as weird as me.
Please be as weird as me.
Please be as weird as me.

- Me every time I meet someone

This isn't a cost of living crisis. This is an excess profit crisis.

Our climate, energy and economic crisis is caused by the extreme greed of the richest 1%.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-makes-record-40-billion-annual-profit-2023-02-02/

How it started (2015)... how it's going (2023)

RNA exosome ribonuclease DIS3 degrades Pou6f1 to promote mouse pre-implantation cell differentiation. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(23)00058-X #Morpholino

@DarrenObbard

"Approximately a quarter of eukaryotes are infected with the bacterium Wolbachia." !!!!!

"we show that Wolbachia infection supports fly development and buffers against nutritional stress. Wolbachia infection across several fly genotypes and a range of nutrient conditions resulted in reduced pupal mortality, increased adult emergence, and larger size."

Lindsey et al. 2023 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.20.524972v1

Wow. #Drosophila #Wolbachia

#Introduction

I am an Associate Professor at Católica Biomedical Research Centre #CBR, co-affiliated with Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência #IGC, Portugal.

Our group works on Host-Microbe interactions, using #Drosophila, #Wolbachia, #microbiota, and #viruses.

I coordinate #SymbNET, a #EUHorizon2020 Twinning
network on Host-Microbe #Symbiosis, #Genomics and #Metabolomics (https://symbnet.eu).

Americans will really do anything to avoid using the metric system.

The study suggests individuals really can't protect themselves from endemic #COVID19 without public health actions. "The reduction in contact rate required to limit the risk of infection under unmitigated SARS-CoV-2 transmission is likely to be unachievable for many individuals. This highlights the limitations of a public health 'individual responsibility' model focused on shielding as a practical strategy for limiting the health costs of COVID-19." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.22.23284884v1.full