Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Farmers are getting infected with bird flu because they working in 104 degree heat without masks and other PPE.

This illustrates how climate and pandemics are connected, how ignoring both only makes the impact of these crises much worse, and why labor justice is a key part of the solution.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-rates-are-rising-again-why-does-sars-cov-2-spread-so-well-in-the/

For #WorldSnakeDay 🐍:
M. C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972)
#Snakes, 1969
Woodcut print, 49.8 × 44.7 cm (19.6 × 17.6 in)
This was the last print Escher produced before his death. Check out the next post for a video of him making it!
Image via Christie's: https://christies.com/en/lot/lot-6128746

I'm glad researchers didn't waste the opportunity to study public trust in scientists when this relationship got so intense early in the pandemic.

I've blogged about another interesting addition to the field. This one's a conjoint survey experiment:

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/07/16/more-pandemic-research-on-public-trust-and-scientists/

#Science #SciComm

how researchers use (and misuse) G*power
Important preprint by Thibault et al
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.24310458v1

AI Machine learning

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

AI and Machine learning to study structural and functional neural networks, genetics, and other phenotypes.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/suny-downstate-health-sciences-university-27778-ai-machine-learning/?feed_id=78238

#AI #ai_machine_learning #behavioral_neuroscience #machine_learning...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/suny-downstate-health-sciences-university-27778-ai-machine-learning/?feed_id=78238

'Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.'

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/tuskegee-syphilis-study-whistleblower-peter-buxtun-has-died-at-age-86/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news

'I also found my modus operandi in Australia: sweatily tracking rehabilitated koalas in the bush several days a week, while deploying molecular tools in the lab to analyze mucosal samples on the remaining days of the week. A ‘wild immunologist’ was born!'
#Immunology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00802-9

Despite bird flu anxiety in the dairy barn, a yearly tradition carries on at an Iowa county fair https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/bird-flu-dairy-cattle-biosecurity-county-fairs/ via @statnews

Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information https://theconversation.com/nutrition-facts-labels-have-a-complicated-legacy-a-historian-explains-the-science-and-politics-of-translating-food-into-information-231894 via @ConversationUS

When James Brady, a presidential aide, was shot during the attempted #assassination of President Reagan…, the moment sparked a national movement to confront #GunViolence.

…since #Trump was shot…& a supporter in the crowd was killed, Democrats have spoken out about the plague of #PoliticalViolence in the #UnitedStates…. But notably missing has been any concerted outcry from elected officials to implement tougher #GunLaws.

#GunControl #guns #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/us/politics/gun-laws-trump-shooting.html?smid=url-share

The US is into state & county fair season — locales where #H5N1 #birdflu could spread, if infected cows are brought to show. @STAT's Eric Boodman went to Iowa's Winneshiek County Fair to see if farm folk are fussed. In the main, they are not. https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/bird-flu-dairy-cattle-biosecurity-county-fairs/

The Democratic Chickenshit Caucus Is Stupid https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/07/16/the-democratic-chickenshit-caucus-is-stupid/

Where I am the target of legal threats attempting to silence scientific debate. Please share.
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/07/16/kavli-prize-winner-threatens-to-sue-critic-for-defamation/

Nothing to see here. Just an oligarch trying to buy the election.

(If Biden wins and the Democrats take Congress, a wealth tax on billionaires is a real possibility. That might bother Elon Musk a little.)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-plans-commit-around-45-million-month-new-pro-trump-super-pac-wsj-reports-2024-07-16/