Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"Anita fue derivada, junto a otros 52 niños, al Hospital Universitario Psiquiátrico de Heidelberg. Estaba dirigido por Carl Schneider, uno de los más reputados psiquiatras de su tiempo. Dirigía un estudio que buscaba establecer las diferencias entre discapacidades del desarrollo congénitas y las adquiridas en los primeros meses y años de vida. Schneider era también el responsable de Aktion T4, el programa estatal de eutanasia. Tras ser estudiada, Anita fue asesinada y, como ella, otros 10.000 niños con alguna discapacidad."

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-11-08/mas-alla-de-mengele-la-clase-medica-en-su-conjunto-consintio-o-se-implico-en-el-horror-nazi.html

"Not everyone who develops a psychiatric disorder later in life will also develop dementia, but given how often the two types of conditions occur together, Dr. Garcia-Ptacek advised that doctors order cognitive testing for older adults with new psychiatric symptoms, as a precaution."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/well/mind/mental-illness-depression-dementia.html

According to Leibniz's notebooks, a critical breakthrough occurred #OTD in 1675, when he employed integral calculus for the 1st time to find the area under the graph of a function y = f(x). He introduced several notations used to this day, for instance the integral sign ∫ (∫f(x)dx)
representing an elongated S, from the Latin word summa, & the d used for differentials (dy/(dx), from the Latin word differentia. Leibniz did not publish anything about his calculus until 1684.

#science #mathematics

PhD Position Optical bio*materials: composition, function, development

University of Salzburg, Chemistry and physics of materials

Do you want to earn a PhD exploring composition and development of photonic structures at U Salzburg, and learn how colours are made and seen?

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://j...
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"So the foundations of the entire Cassava Alzheimer's program are shaky. And as you'll see from this, that's not the end of it. Thirty-four papers by Cassava-associated scientists have come under scrutiny for research irregularities, and this led to a petition filing to the FDA asking that the company be investigated and their clinical trials halted."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/saga-cassava

"Although my letter precedes the furore ignited by Michelle Donelan’s missive to UKRI raising her concerns about tweets by members of Research England’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Advisory Group, it touches on a related issue: the use and interpretation of evidence in political discourse on matters that are central to research and higher education."

https://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2023/11/10/open-letter-secretary-of-state-edi/

"At least two million low-income children have lost health insurance since the end of a federal policy that guaranteed coverage through Medicaid earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to newanalyses by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and KFF, a health policy research organization."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/medicaid-children-lost-coverage.html

This 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made…

"When… in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?"
Notes from Underground

Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born #OTD in 1821. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. via @wikipedia

Books by Fyodor Dostoyevsky at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/314

#books #literature

"SARS-CoV-2 infection is milder in children, but the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. This study finds increased interactions between immune and epithelial cells in children's noses, priming the epithelium for stronger interferon responses upon infection."
Magalhães et al @emboreports

#Virology #SarsCov2 #Covid19 #Immunology

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202357912

Girona

RESEARCH DATA COORDINATOR I

Moffitt Cancer Center

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#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #ProjectManager #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician
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"A team of researchers backed by Alzheimer’s Research UK and the Alzheimer’s Society have launched a £5m project to trial simple blood tests in the NHS, with the hope of speeding up diagnosis and reaching more people. They aim to be able to determine whether someone has the disease using a single drop of blood."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/09/simple-blood-tests-for-dementia-to-be-trialled-in-nhs