Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

How do you spot a predatory journal?

Predatory journals prioritise financial profits at the expense of research integrity. Published articles can be of lower quality and sometimes full of incorrect or misleading information.

If you are looking for a safe place to publish your research, watch the video on the link below by The Royal Society.

https://zurl.co/KnSd

#TheRoyalSociety #Research #Ethical #Publishing #Authour #Journals #ResearchIntegrity

RT @CSHVienna: How can local initiatives bring about systemic change? We are seeking a #postdoctoral researcher at @CSHVienna to employ #AI and #machinelearning methods for extracting and validating data on the issues, decisions, and network structures of local collectives focused on

There should be a law against this.

Your average user is going to think something is terribly wrong with their computer just because they didn't sign over their rights to Microsoft.

EDIT: added button descriptions to the alt text, sorry for leaving those out when I posted this last night.

Australian anti-nuclear campaigners suspended from X, sparking fears about the former Twitter limiting free speech by environmental campaigners. https://au.news.yahoo.com/free-speech-fears-after-aussie-group-suspended-by-elon-musks-x-062348290.html

@cyrilpedia covid at olympic games, and frankly watching the spread of H5N1 in herds in US, and people working with 🐄 only get tested when you have symptoms😰, preparedness, what is that? 🤷🏽‍♀️

"A new study shows that undocumented #immigrants paid nearly $100 billion in federal, state and local tax revenue in 2022 while many are shut out of the programs their taxes fund. The findings run counter to anti-immigrant rhetoric that #undocumented immigrants are 'destroying' social programs."

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/08/04/study-says-undocumented-immigrants-paid-almost-100-billion-in-taxes/

'The number of pathogens that could trigger the next pandemic has grown to more than 30, and now includes influenza A virus, dengue virus and monkeypox virus, according to an updated list published by the World Health Organization (WHO) this week. Researchers say that the list of ‘priority pathogens’ will help organizations to decide where to focus their efforts in developing treatments, vaccines and diagnostics.'
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02513-3

Map of the #UKRiots - organized racist groups attacking minorities.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-riots-mapped-areas-hit-33390522

Thread: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112875480030814266

Read this week's highlightable delights, in one place – Tove Jansson on trauma and self-renewal; Kierkegaard on the key to resetting relationships; Grace Paley on the courage of imagining other lives: https://t.co/XHmm2H9uX6 https://t.co/V9cB4HVwpF

'LINE1 (L1) retrotransposons have gained notoriety for their involvement in a slew of pathologies. While improper de-repression of L1 transcription may drive disease, mammalian cells have coopted L1 activation into mechanisms essential for cell function. New findings published by Mangiavacci et al (2024) in The EMBO Journal reveal the role of L1 RNA in stimulating osteogenic activity during bone repair in both mice and humans, highlighting a previously undescribed beneficial regulatory role for L1 activity.'

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-024-00175-5

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
The second fascistic tactic to look out for is anyone who tries to amp up nationalistic animosities toward other nations or peoples, framing attempts to foster international cooperation as forms of weakness. The idea that all humans share the earth as equals is anathema to fascists.
The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."

https://archive.org/details/ArmyTalkOrientationFactSheet64-Fascism/mode/2up?view=theater

'Nos armazéns de uma antiga fábrica de cortiça, em Lisboa, a ditadura prendeu, ao monte, sem condenação nem recurso, quem queria ‘limpar’ das ruas - pedintes, vadios, aleijados, loucos e prostitutas. A Mitra era a cidade dos mal-amados. Rapavam-lhes o cabelo, metiam-lhes uma farda de cotim e um número ao pescoço, a lembrar um campo de concentração. Controlados pela PSP, mais de 20 mil adultos e crianças foram ali escondidos do olhar público, muitos por várias décadas.'

https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2024-08-01-video-mitra-o-deposito-dos-miseraveis-documentario-sobre-um-dos-capitulos-mais-sombrios-e-menos-conhecidos-do-estado-novo-e569e081

'More worryingly, said Jackson, the central themes of these far-right activists, particularly their vilification of immigrants, had been amplified in the mainstream, including by members of Rishi Sunak’s immediate past Conservative government.'

https://www.ft.com/content/d3ccf8de-c62d-4ef1-beb9-72a28b20dc47

'Baldwin was 33 in 1957, when he published his short story Sonny’s Blues, and it might be said that the whole of his lifetime went into the story. Readers today coming for the first time to this tale of Harlem life and heroin addiction might view it in contemporary terms, and there’s no harm in that: the messages in the story are as evergreen as the biblical allusions Baldwin uses in the story. But it is also worth recalling that in 1957 there was no Civil Rights Act, the struggle over Jim Crow laws and segregation had a long way to go, and racial conditions and inequalities were deplorable and disregarded by most white Americans.'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/02/where-to-start-with-james-baldwin