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"One of the movie’s nice surprises is that Morricone turns out to be a total charmer, a low-key showman with a demure gaze that he works like a vamp and an impish smile that routinely punctuates one of his anecdotes."

nytimes.com/2024/02/08/movies/

Joana Lobo Antunes @JoanaLA at the Champalimaud PostDoc day, describing the moment when she realised science communication could be more than something you do on the side (spoiler: there was a lot of screaming across age groups).

That's not a profit margin. *That's*👇 a profit margin

"Relx does not disclose figures for specific journals but reported £2.9bn revenues in 2022 for all scientific, technical and medical products, with an operating profit of £1.1bn."

ft.com/content/33e41e46-0d5d-4

During the 2020 lockdown @madparreira experimented with making miniature paper sets in tupperwares & lighting them with her cellphone :)

madalenaparreira.com

'Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria had whisked Dürer’s panel off to his private collection in Munich in 1614, just over a century after it was completed, arranging with the Dominicans for a copy to replace it. This copy is now in the Historisches Museum in Frankfurt, and although it lacks Dürer’s skilled brushwork and glorious colors, it allows us to see his design and in particular one daring, even shocking, detail. Just to the left of center Dürer painted his own portrait: an isolated figure in a recognizably German landscape, poised between the apostles looking up in awe and the Madonna floating above. He holds a board with “credits larger than a shop sign” declaring that he, Albrecht Dürer, had created this picture, ending with a large version of his monogram, “AD.”'
Jenny Uglow @nybooks

nybooks.com/articles/2024/02/2

"For these reasons, we hypothesize that PTMs could have been selected throughout evolution at the flanks of aggregation-prone regions as an intrinsic factor to protect proteins against aggregation, thus expanding the current repertoire of aggregation gatekeepers."

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

"We generated mice for the B cell–conditional expression of the most frequent BTG1 mutation [Gln36→His (Q36H)]. Btg1Q36H cells almost completely outcompeted their wild-type counterparts, specifically in the GC. This competitive fitness manifested as a stronger induction of MYC-dependent growth programs."

science.org/stoken/author-toke

David del Alamo & I have spent the last 18 months putting our combined experience in scientific editing, education & funding into this baby. We've been running workshops since last January & now we've launched our site 👇

fellowsherpa.com

"Look, cancer immune-metabolism is really simple, let me walk you through it."

"The only known species of caenagnathid from this time and region was Anzu, sometimes called the “chicken from hell.” Covered in feathers and sporting wings and a toothless beak, Anzu was roughly 450 to 750 pounds (200 to 340 kilograms). Despite its fearsome nickname, though, its diet is a matter of debate. It was likely an omnivore, eating both plant material and small animals."
Image: Zubin Erik Dutta / PLOS One.

theatlantic.com/science/archiv

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