Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

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The UK has lost more than three-quarters of its great skuas on surveyed sites since bird flu struck, according to the first report quantifying the impact of H5N1 on seabird populations.

The deaths have happened over two years, since the outbreak of H5N1 in 2021. The UK is internationally important for seabirds, home to most of the world’s 16,000 pairs of nesting great skuas"
#BirdFlu #Virology #Epidemiology

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/13/bird-flu-uk-seabird-numbers-h5n1-great-skua-gannets

"What might come as a big surprise to those of us deeply embedded in academic culture is that what we have achieved doesn’t matter so much as what we are capable of doing. That tall stack of publications might have zero value outside academia, but all of the talents that we racked up in the process of producing those papers can be highly valuable."

https://scienceforeveryone.substack.com/p/publications-are-currency-from-a

“Estamos desamparados”, qualifica uma bolseira de 41 anos ouvida pelo PÚBLICO. Pediu a prorrogação da bolsa em Setembro de 2023 e não recebe desde Novembro. Gastou boa parte das poupanças a colmatar as despesas que tem e já teve de renegociar o crédito à habitação para acomodar a ausência de salário. “Não tenho outra fonte de rendimento”, diz.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/14/ciencia/noticia/bolseiros-doutoramento-receber-desamparados-devido-atrasos-fct-2079038

"With this perspective, our intent is to provide some orientation—and some sense of calm—while navigating the diversity of CRISPR tools, recognizing what needs to be done to make them better and tackling the technical, regulatory and other challenges. Inspired by Douglas Adams’ classic scientific-fiction comedy novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), this article is our attempt to provide a brief, and hopefully informative, tour with this hitchhiker’s guide to the universe of #CRISPR-based editing tools in bacteria."
Krink et al @emboreports
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00086-w

'Uma profissional de saúde que trabalha na organização Médicos Sem Fronteiras estava ao lado de um local atingido por um bombardeamento israelita. “Escrevi os nomes dos meus filhos e da minha família nos seus pulsos e nas suas pernas, para que possamos ser identificados se formos bombardeados”, contou em mensagens de texto ao resto da equipa na Palestina, mensagens que a organização divulgou."

https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/14/mundo/noticia/profissional-saude-rafah-vamos-morrer-2080322

#gaza #palestine #historic #picture #peace

@palestine

#Jaffa #beach, Palestine 1921. Long gone times....citizens of all ethnicities and religions once lived peacefully. Picture by Dr. Mustafa Elmasri, Gaza.

New #Chikungunya vaccine must be tested for efficacy in west Africa

https://www.nature.com/articles/d44148-024-00056-3

I'm grateful to authors who take the time to write up their stories of mistreatment by #journals and #publishers.

The publicity can help in their own cases. It can help unknown authors who didn't have the same freedom to publicize their experience. It can help raise standards in publishing.

Here's #BobUttl on the shabby and unprofessional behavior he faced from the journal, #𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺.
https://www.bobuttl.net/2024/02/12/when-did-a-rejection-of-an-already-accepted-article-become-a-thing/

Cryo-EM structures reveal that asymmetric homo-dimerization allows the CRL2-FEM1B ubiquitin ligase to accommodate substrates of varying sizes

Yuxin Yin and collaborators

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-024-00047-y

Genome-wide screens reveal EXO1 and FEN1 as DNA repair genes essential in HR-defective cells lacking PAR glycohydrolase PARG - with implications for #PARPi resistance in cancers
Sven Rottenberg and colleagues
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-024-00043-2

Navalny was an imperfect man, but his courage in the face of a monster like Putin is something I will never forget. A truly historical anti-corruption warrior. An inspiration for generations to come.

Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/16/amazon-and-spacex-are-quietly-trying-to-demolish-national-labor-law/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404637

#amazon

Don't let fascists pretend to speak for farmers

"We propose to conceptualize science-related populism as a set of ideas which suggests that there is a morally charged antagonism between an (allegedly) virtuous ordinary people and an (allegedly) unvirtuous academic elite, and that this antagonism is due to the elite illegitimately claiming and the people legitimately demanding both science-related decision-making sovereignty and truth-speaking sovereignty."

Mede, N. G., & Schäfer, M. S. (2020). Science-related populism: Conceptualizing populist demands toward science. Public Understanding of Science, 29(5), 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520924259 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #STEM #Epistemology #Populism @science

“The Fraud of Plastic Recycling”

https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud

#EcosystemCollapse #Recycling #PlasticPollution

This is what #globalwarming looks like if you remove the effect of El Niño, volcanic eruptions and solar activity.

The author is a professional statistician with much experience in climate data analysis. The method is described here: https://tamino.wordpress.com/2024/02/16/adjusted-global-temperature-data/

"Let in the migrants, kick out the racists"
Seen in NYC