Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Hopefully the times they are a'changing:

"Such discussions indicate that there exists today both a familiarity with the older custom of senior academics taking credit for others’ work, and a strong distaste for the practice."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2019/09/18/giving-credit-gender-and-the-hidden-labour-behind-academic-prestige/

Worse than useless:

"In the decades since, the military returned to the barracks, but its withdrawal was always conditional. The tenure of Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain, brought the military back to the heart of government. He might have grudgingly left office, but Brazil’s military — privileged, preponderant and unaccountable — remains a constant threat to the country’s democracy."
cc @mucida
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/opinion/brazil-military-bolsonaro.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"We are generating more data in biology than ever. Reanalysis of datasets is increasingly common, and there is a welcome trend toward open data that seeks to remove all barriers (actual and perceived) to data reuse as well as to provide opportunities to assess the reproducibility of analyses."
@richardsever

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-01817-y

'To be sure, the flaws in the British pandemic response are well established: Mr. Johnson waited longer than other European countries to impose a lockdown, then kept the restrictions in place for months, prompting fierce internal debate among his ministers. Lack of testing was a huge early problem, most likely worsening the death toll among older people living in nursing homes. There were persistent tensions between scientists advising the government and ministers setting the policies.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/europe/matt-hancock-whatsapp-uk-covid-lockdowns.html

@epigenetics_pod Thanks!

WTF!?

"But this week, Mayor Eric Adams proposed a major reversal: telling shopkeepers not to let in any customers wearing a face covering."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/07/new-york-bodegas-face-masks-eric-adams-mayor

'Using two independent real-world datasets from three different countries and an independent validation cohort based on the global, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 RECOURSE trial, we demonstrate that codon-specific KRAS mutations predict OS benefit for patients treated with the chemotherapeutic agent FTD/TPI in late-stage mCRC.'

#NatureMedicine #KRAS #PrecisionMedicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02240-8#Sec7

'Election deniers won races for secretary of state—the post that oversees election administration—in Alabama, Indiana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. They make up most of the Republican freshman class in Congress. Even some of the losers came very close. Lake’s election-denying ticket mate, Abe Hamadeh, lost the Arizona attorney general’s race by 280 votes.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/03/maricopa-county-arizona-election-officials-stop-the-steal/673235/