Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

In the 1960s, CEOs made 20 times the pay of their workers.

Now, they rake in over 300 times.

When people stop believing they have a fair chance to make it, the tacit social contract begins to unravel.

That's how a nation becomes susceptible to demagogues like Donald Trump.

🚨BREAKING: Nevada Supreme Court rules that pro-abortion initiative will be on the ballot this November. Congratulations to the ELG team who argued this case successfully and our client Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom! https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/NV-opinion.pdf

New York City police have arrested more than 100 people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza on the campus of Columbia University. A student group called Columbia University Apartheid Divest set up an encampment on Wednesday to protest the school’s “continued financial investment in corporations that profit from Israeli apartheid.” University President Minouche Shafik warned demonstrators that they were not allowed to set up tents and occupy the grounds before police started forcibly removing them. USA Today has more on the ongoing protest.

https://flip.it/EqvQRn

#Columbia #Protest #Israel #Gaza #College #NYPD

"I just don’t understand how, of all places to cut, you would cut 40 percent from the BRAIN Initiative, which is working to understand how biology achieves intelligence." - Doris Tsao, professor of neuroscience at the University of California, Berkeley

By @avaskham

https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/278-million-cut-in-brain-initiative-funding-leaves-neuroscientists-in-limbo/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20240418-278-million

Expansion of activities in the Fediverse:

We are opening the university's own Mastodon instance social.uibk.ac.at to all 5,000+ employees today: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2024/mastodon-for-all-university-employees/

This step is based on the communication team's fundamental commitment to non-profit, data protection-friendly and open-source media - set out in the position paper "Open Science Communication": https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/public-relations/kommunikation/open-science-communication/

#Fediverse #openscicomm #scicomm #foss

Big money flows to US charities fueling vaccine misinformation

https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-money-flows-us-charities-012855095.html

'The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, who controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family name from the endowment funds.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/health/sacklers-opioids-national-academies.html

'The disparity in Press Releases outlets is particularly notable, as stories in these outlets typically reuse content from university press-releases, suggesting that universities’ press offices themselves, while having less disparity than other outlet types, still prefer to mention scholars with Anglo names. This result is unexpected because local press offices are expected to have greater direct familiarity with their researchers, reduce the misuse of stereotypes, and to be more responsible for representing minority researchers equitably.'

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/04/11/researchers-with-minority-ethnic-names-are-written-out-of-us-science-journalism/

The Mole & Velazquez

"And, of course, who gets to judge? Who would we want to judge? Well, the little five-year-old girl in Las Meninas is giving us the most mischievous and heart-felt smile. A smile that speaks of respect and love, but also self-confidence born of the strength that emanates from the center of her attention (the royal couple, perhaps, or we, who stand in their place). Maybe it would all be worth it if our scientific `children', our students and trainees, were to look at us that way. Maybe that would be something worth striving for."

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/117/9/1615/28076/Eyes-on-the-prize

“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

Remembering Gabriel García Márquez, who left us 10 years ago today, with his formative reading list: https://t.co/V3XOJsbWvG

Aprender a filosofar no ensino secundário: orientações curriculares e didáticas para integração do pensamento crítico https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/41550 https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-04-17T22:58:46Z

"Compared to 2021, we now have almost seven times as many editors in Latin America and more than five times as many in Africa. Specifically, while Latin American and African editors combined made up less than 1% of our editorial board in our last report, currently 7% of eLife editors are based in Latin America and 3% are based in Africa (Figure 1). The number of eLife editors in Asia has also grown, at the moment constituting 14% of our editorial board compared to 11% in 2021."

https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e3b5c5c9/elife-latest-2024-update-on-the-diversity-of-our-editorial-community