Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'Because mink are known to spread certain viruses to humans, the fear was that the disease could jump from mink to people. No humans got sick from the outbreak in Spain, but other infections have spread from mink to humans before: In 2020, COVID outbreaks on Danish mink farms led to new mink-related variants that spread to a small number of humans.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/02/mink-farm-bird-flu-virus-infection-spread/673236/

"We established a reference library of TCR-beta germline genes by annotating three Chiroptera: The Greater Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, R. ferrumequinum), The Pale spear-nosed Bat (Phyllostomus discolor, P. discolor), and the Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus, P. pipistrellus)."

#preprint #Immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.05.519110v3

"However the leak may have played on your social media feed, it does not indicate a new consensus but the opposite: a glaring reminder of the complexity of the known facts, with different narratives imposed by different factions trying to make sense of the same uncertain picture"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/opinion/lab-leak-energy-department-covid.html

'Por ejemplo, que unas chinches hayan conseguido controlar sus propios excrementos, lanzándolos en singulares gotas, que catapultan a velocidades increíbles lo más lejos posible de donde se alimentan.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-02-28/los-insectos-que-catapultan-sus-heces-en-forma-de-gotas-superpropulsadas-para-ahorrar-energia.html

'A sua imagem política está mais do que consolidada. E a fasquia está altíssima. Não é fácil bater a beleza de meter banqueiros na ordem. Grande desafio para o partido e para a futura coordenadora.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/03/01/opiniao/opiniao/mariana-mortagua-beleza-lutar-vida-boa-2040650

@Homo_viator Is the lunatic still on the grass?

Enter the Red Queen.

"Eric Mitchell, a graduate student at Stanford University, figured a classifier would take a lot of training data. Along with colleagues, he came up with DetectGPT, a “zero-shot” approach to spotting the difference, meaning the method requires no prior learning. Instead, the method turns a chatbot on itself, to sniff out its own output."

https://www.ft.com/content/e34c24f6-1159-4b88-8d92-a4bda685a73c

Last fall I spoke with @MarkHanson, who was then in Bruno Lemaitre's lab, for EMBO's @ReviewCommons platform for refereed #preprints. I love this detail about how flies grow - I picture a tiny little bicycle pump in there somewhere:

'When flies eclode from the pupa they are soft and squishy and they “manually” inflate their wings by pumping air through their body and that inflates the cuticle in a way that there is room for the body to move around inside that shell.'
#Drosophila #InnateImmunity

https://www.reviewcommons.org/blog/models-oddballs-and-preprints-a-conversation-with-mark-hanson/

@ct_bergstrom A colleague of mine told me that when he tested this, ChatGPT had a decent reference list, but scrambled the text (mixing and matching authors, titles, journals etc)

PNAS outlines its policy for the use of text generated by ChatGPT et al in papers. Not clear what the process will be if the AI is an Academy Member.

https://www.pnas.org/post/update/pnas-policy-for-chatgpt-generative-ai

@sara The glycine receptor? I'm not aware of any strong link between glycine receptor polymorphisms and type 1 diabetes - but that could just be my ignorance.