Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history. They’re still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and East Timor, wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.'

https://commongood.cc/reader/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-by-octavia-e-butler/

'It is obvious that there had, indeed, been a better part of German society. If not, the Nazis would not have already needed to fill prisons and concentration camps with political opponents in 1933, years before the deportation of Jewish people began. But the identification of the anti-Nazi opposition with the conspirators that tried to kill Hitler and take power in July 1944 has always been historically dishonest. The military was certainly not the group that had sacrificed most members in the resistance against Hitler. Instead, it was the necessary element in exporting Nazi crimes from Germany to the rest of Europe.'
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/stauffenberg-hitler-plot-nazis-afd/

'MALAT1 is a highly abundant long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) that is retained in the nucleus (Sun and Ma 2019). It is consistently highly expressed across mammalian species, and its function is related to splicing regulation, the cell cycle, or the structure of the nuclear speckle (Hutchinson et al. 2007; Sun and Ma 2019). We found that MALAT1 expression is highly correlated with the DropletQC nuclear fraction measure and thus can be used to identify poor quality cells from scRNA-seq datasets. MALAT1 expression is an important technical signal that easily and quickly indicates the presence of a nucleus in droplets in scRNA-seq data.'
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.14.603469v1

'In the end, Bell Labs was ultimately undermined by the very technologies that it had created. The world that Bell Labs thrived in no longer exists: to push technological progress forward, we'll need to understand both why Bell Labs worked and why it no longer could.'
(via The Browser)

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to-recreate-bell?ref=thebrowser.com

'Combining our amphioxus dataset and publicly available data from the mouse, zebrafish, tunicate, sea urchin and sea anemone, we uncovered a tripartite origin of the chordate CNS from anterior, posterior and NMP populations (Extended Data Fig. 7c).'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02469-7#Sec10

'Our results imply that nervous systems converged onto synaptic density invariance to stabilise neuronal responses, suggesting a simplifying principle for neural circuit function, assembly and evolution.'

#Neuroscience #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.18.604056v1?med=mas

If a drug to achieve longevity is ever discovered, it is highly unlikely to work on women, because labs across the world are filled with white mice who are exclusively male.

Yet the sex differences between rodents are highly significant.

Reflecting a profound sex bias, 'Methuselah's Zoo' author Dr. Peter Austad says more progress has not been made in extending women’s healthy longevity because researchers are not interested in studying it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/22/sex-bias-labs-women-losers-research-ageing

#woman #health #aging

#sciences #biology Are animals conscious? We’re finally realising that many species are
Science is at last confirming what many people have long suspected - that mammals, birds and perhaps some invertebrates have elements of consciousness https://www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419/

Head-to-head comparison of aptamer- and antibody-based proteomic platforms in human cerebrospinal fluid samples from a real-world memory clinic cohort https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.18.24310563v1.full.pdf+html

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

'We discovered that the Neisseria gonorrhoeae transcriptional response to PMNs has features in common with the transcriptional response to nutrient metals and oxidative stress, which enhance Neisseria gonorrhoeae resistance to hydrogen peroxide & polymorphonuclear leukocytes.'
#Immunology #HostPathogen

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1012369#sec010

#IDMastodon #immunology #SARSCoV2 evolution prompts the quest for other protective antibody mechanisms beyond neutralization .Non-neutralizing mAbs might target epitopes with less evolutionary selection pressure to mutate in #SARSCoV2 variants VS neutralizing mAbs

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(24)00152-2?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

"I reflect on my own PhD candidature to illustrate how article processing charges disempower doctoral candidates." - Article processing charges suppress the scholarship of doctoral students https://ese.arphahub.com/article/124173/

AQuaRef: Machine learning accelerated quantum refinement of protein structures https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.21.604493v1.full.pdf+html

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

Timothy Snyder on "both sides" - a cult of duality which we should have learned from by now. Have seen people get sucked into fascist thinking because of this.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/both-sides

✳️Producing #green #hydrogen for industrial & transport applications🔋

♻️By utilising 100% renewable #electricity, #Luxembourg Hydrogen Valley (LuxHyVal) will produce green hydrogen locally & implement initiatives across the entire value chain by 2026.
➡️https://www.researchluxembourg.org/en/luxhyval-luxembourg-hydrogen-valley/

LuxHyVal is a collaborative project of 17 partners from 7 countries. If successful, the project aims to expand its initiatives to the #CzechRepublic & #Ukraine️

#ResearchLuxembourg #research #renewableenergy

Reading
A Child in Palestine
The cartoons of Naji-al-Ali
2009 Verso Publishing

#Palestine #Handala #Hanthala
#cartoons #art #NajiAlAli