Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

I wrote this summary of Project 2025 on its key features and strategies to enable and advance fascism in America.

Read below and Subscribe to support my work as I’ll be publishing more key updates on Project 2025 soon, with receipts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/qasimrashid/p/project-2025-invites-fascism-to-america?r=fyvxf&utm_medium=ios

Project 2025: We'll mandate military exams for public school kids but exempt private school kids, & we'll defund public education to fund private religious charter schools & massive defense spending.

In short—we want poor, of color, & non-Christian kids to fight our endless wars

Due to a mix-up from my publisher, I unexpectedly find myself with FOUR spare copies of Sticky. So, it's giveaway time!

TWO available here and TWO on Bluesky. Open to all countries 🌍

To go in the draw for one, reply to this post with this emoji: 🦎
And then tell me your favourite sticky or slippery thing.

Winners chosen 48hrs from now. GO!

#scicomm #popsci #sciencebooks #books #bookstodon #science #ScienceMastodon

One of my broadcast news heroes. If only he were here today.
#GoodNightAndGoodLuck

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply
the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. - Edward R. Murrow

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-true-scale-carbon-impact-distance.html

disparity greater in international travel: Int'l journeys only 0.4% of total trips, but responsible for 55% of #emissions.

The new research…also shows that targeting long-distance travel may be a more effective way of tackling emissions than current efforts focusing on local and #commuter journeys.

…the number of long/short distance domestic journeys by car has fallen over the last 25 years, while international #airtravel has increased significantly

#highspeedrail

'Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) could differentiate into functional osteoclasts. Moreover, B cells, especially switched memory B cells, could promote the osteoclastogenic potential of MDSCs in rheumatoid arthritis'
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eji.202350823

Greetings Vienna

'Many of us associate Covid with respiratory issues. But some people who get sick with the virus never experience a sore throat, coughing or body aches, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. Certain people end up feeling more like they have food poisoning than anything else.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/well/covid-symptoms-stomach-pain-diarrhea.html

Mixed recurrent connectivity architecture in primate prefrontal cortex
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.30.601443v1.abstract
#neuroscience

Yesterday The Lancet published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. #Gaza

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

'The discovery of recombinases that use easily customized RNA molecules to recognize DNA targets could obviate the key challenges of the existing toolbox, just as the reprogrammable guide RNAs of DNA-cleaving CRISPR–Cas enzymes ushered in a new era of genome editing.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01461-2

'Como ex-bolseiros de investigação e técnicos superiores doutorados na FCT, consideramos que o papel da fundação necessita ser repensado, superando o paradigma a que se tem remetido, enquanto mera agência de financiamento, abrindo-se à comunidade científica, tornando-se uma verdadeira casa dos investigadores, e convocando para si um papel de charneira, como plataforma de permanente diálogo entre a administração e a investigação, ao serviço de todos.'
https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/06/ciencia/opiniao/qualificar-fct-2096511

'It’s been clear for some time what went wrong, but almost none of those issues have been fixed. That means that the next desperately needed vaccine stands every chance of running into those same problems.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/health/malaria-vaccine-delay.html

'In 1999, Haynes and team demonstrated that HIV-1–infected patients with myasthenia gravis who underwent thymus removal still experienced peripheral CD4+ T cell rises following ART, demonstrating that peripheral T cells were primarily responsible for blood T cell reconstitution in those individuals'
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/183039#B1

13/ 🔗 Read the full paper here: https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-024-00093-3

#Immunology #Research #Platelets #Monocytes #Inflammation #EMBO #Science #MedicalResearch

A few nice examples how "AI" can only "solve" problems if it has seen the answer before.

(Original title: LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/06/llms-can-solve-any-word-problem-as-long-as-they-can-crib-the-answer/