Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"Elon Musk’s Daughter Fires Back at Father Over ‘Dead’ Comments: ‘Desperate For Attention’ From ‘Degenerate Red-Pilled Incels’"

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musks-daughter-fires-back-at-father-over-dead-comments-desperate-for-attention-from-degenerate-red-pilled-incels/

“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern…the whole world is a work of art…there is no Shakespeare…no Beethoven…no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”

Virginia Woolf's exquisite epiphany on creativity https://t.co/riynGV93mp

What to know about the updated COVID-19 vaccines coming this fall.

ABC News reports "the [U.S.] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Americans receive the updated 2024-25 vaccine when it becomes available later this year."

https://flip.it/upehTQ

#COVID #COVID19 #Vaccines #Pandemic #Disease #Medicine #Health

“Best Paper” awards lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science. https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002715. A really enjoyable 'big science' project led by Losia Lagisz.

How information is processed in the brain when consciousness is lost due to anaesthesia or brain injury. #Neuroscience https://elifesciences.org/digests/88173/understanding-consciousness?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Argentine scientists scrimp and save their way through funding crisis

Deep budget cuts are sowing chaos—and creativity #press

https://www.science.org/content/article/argentine-scientists-scrimp-and-save-their-way-through-funding-crisis?utm_source=press.coop

Interesting, but that's a big 'if':
“They support the hypothesis that vaccination against shingles might prevent dementia,” Taquet said. “If validated in clinical trials, these findings could have significant implications for older adults, health services and public health.”
https://www.ft.com/content/d0aaf521-8f24-444d-86b7-c260ae7909a6

In #Illinois, a police officer shot Sonya Massey and killed her. He has been charged with murder. The facts will come out at trial, but the choice for the election is clear. Kamala #Harris wants to hold cops accountable when they break the law. Donald #Trump wants to give them immunity from prosecution. A decision to stay home means you're OK with letting the cop who killed Sonya Massey stay home. Silence means consent. https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/sonya-massey-police-accountability-trump-harris-rcna163741?cid=eml_mda_20240726&user_email=6178f1b4ffd352f367e7b15ac9f42f239b7166116dfcd896d93afa99a5de221d

'But we also saw other methods of speciation that Darwin hadn’t anticipated involving the rare hybridisation (or interbreeding) of species – including the formation of an entirely new lineage. This remarkable and unexpected process began with the arrival of a single male large cactus finch (Geospiza conirostris) on Daphne from an island in the far south of the archipelago. Though whether the lineage ultimately succeeds or succumbs remains to be seen.'
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/21/rosemary-grant-peter-grant-charles-darwin-finches-evolutionary-biology-princeton-one-step-sideways-three-steps-forward-memoir

'While Japan lacks its own homegrown AI giants, some tech companies are drawn to the market for another reason: the country’s copyright law which critics say allows widespread use of copyrighted images and other materials for commercial purposes to train AI models without seeking permission.'
https://www.ft.com/content/f9e7f628-4048-457e-b064-68e0eeea1e39

'In this review of a diverse literature, we show how host control mechanisms influence almost every aspect of microbiome biology. Our focus is the mammalian microbiome, but we also examine well-characterized examples from invertebrate and plant microbiomes. To begin, we explore the biology of host control, including immunity, barrier function, physiological homeostasis, transit, and host behavior.'
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi3338

'We unexpectedly found that cRel abundance and B cell proliferation are not proportional, but have a complex relationship in which some characteristics of proliferative clonal expansion are enhanced by cRel but others are diminished. We show that this may underlie the proliferation phenotypes of marginal zone vs. follicular B cell subsets.'
#Immunology
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309686121

Finally!
David Simon, Andre Braugher, and Barry Levinson... Homicide is a masterpiece

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/arts/television/homicide-life-on-the-street-streaming-peacock.html