Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

“I couldn’t say that this specific pattern of binding, or this specific expression of genes, is a causal determinant in the patient’s response to immunotherapy,” he explains.

Bhattacharya was stymied by the age-old dictum that correlation does not equal causation — a fundamental stumbling block in artificial intelligence (AI).'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00577-1?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

"The cheap servant

It is against the law for black servants to live under the same roof as their employers. In a private home, servants would have a separate little room in the backyard. She lives on the edge of opulence, while her own world is bare. Newspapers are her carpet, fruit crates her chairs and table."

fm 'Ernest Cole’s photographs of 1960s South Africa during apartheid' in the FT

https://www.ft.com/content/9919a741-9115-460c-b541-405b1ef2ab32

"Our model is based on experimental measurements of neuronal and muscle activity and assumes gap junctional coupling among muscle cells and calcium-dependent force generation by muscles. With these assumptions, we can robustly reproduce a basic set of Hydra’s behaviors."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210439120

“A mi padre lo habían bajado al calabozo, pero a mi hermana la subieron a la secretaría y allí la violaron”, relató Josefina Lamberto a EL PAÍS en 2014, cuando viajó a Madrid desde Pamplona para sumarse, en el consulado argentino, a la causa abierta en Buenos Aires contra los crímenes del franquismo. Los vecinos habían escuchado los gritos de Maravillas, de 14 años. Unos campesinos la encontraron luego muerta, desnuda en un descampado. El cuerpo había sido atacado por los perros “y decidieron echar gasolina sobre los restos y quemarlos”

https://elpais.com/espana/2023-03-12/violadas-rapadas-asesinadas-la-represion-a-las-mujeres-durante-el-franquismo.html

'Há novas polémicas envolvendo o mestrado integrado em Medicina da Universidade Fernando Pessoa (UFP), recentemente aprovado pela Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior (A3ES). Há médicos apontados como futuros orientadores dos estudantes cujos nomes integraram o processo de candidatura à sua revelia.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/03/12/sociedade/noticia/fernando-pessoa-incluiu-medicos-candidatura-curso-medicina-consultar-2041628

'One of the most striking aspects of the modern information environment, as many people have observed, is the almost total collapse of local and even regional news outlets. Where once every town or city of even minor consequence had a newspaper — with reporters who helped the community understand itself through their work — now there are large parts of the country that exist in news deserts, where there is little coverage of anything, from local government to local events.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/11/opinion/local-media-newspapers-democracy.html

One can hope...

"The Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former first lady of South Africa and Mozambique Graça Machel and former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon are among nearly 200 signatories to a letter calling on governments to “never again” allow “profiteering and nationalism” to come before the needs of humanity, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/11/profiteering-of-covid-pandemic-must-never-be-repeated-world-figures-warn