Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Potentially good news that the EU is considering to move beyond #OpenAccess mandates and do away with author publication fees - and fund scientific publication directly.

https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2023-5-eu-ready-to-back-immediate-open-access-without-author-fees/

To me, one problem in the way we talk about this is the tendency to discuss "journals" as a monolithic entity. On a previous episode of the #EMBOPodcast Adriano Aguzzi, Thomas Lemberger & I discussed if funding agencies should establish stricter parameters for which journals could be funded. The community can rate what matters - this is the sort of thing that could give DORA principles some teeth for example. Quality peer review, track record of publishing reliable work, inclusivity, tools for data analysis, etc.
If you want to jump to this bit in the episode ("From Prions to Preprints"), go to minute 19.

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/from-prions-to-preprints/

'Even within one rare disease, many subtypes can exist that require personalized approaches to therapy. As one example, EMA’s chief medical officer Steffen Thirstrup mentions cystic fibrosis, which affects around 1 in 2,500 babies born. “When I left medical school 30 years ago, we knew that cystic fibrosis was caused by a genetic defect, but now we know that different mutations in the genome can cause this disease,” he explains.'
#raredisease

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02333-4

'Similarly, the C.D.C.’s budget process is byzantine. It has about 160 individual budget lines, and little to no ability to move funds to where they are needed in a crisis. That is not how FEMA and the Department of Defense operate amid a crisis. Congress has the power to grant the C.D.C. the essential flexibility it requires, and it should.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/cdc-overhaul.html

'Arthur Bispo do Rosario, a former Marine Corps signalman, boxer, tram cleaner and domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro, had no interest in defining his extensive activities as art. His unusual embroidered garments and textiles, ingenious assemblages and use of language had a higher purpose: Bispo was Jesus Christ, according to angels who visited him the night of Dec. 22, 1938, and instructed him to record, or possibly replicate reality. Thus, the title of his first retrospective in the United States, at the Americas Society in Manhattan: “Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/arts/design/bispo-do-rosario-brazilian-artist.html

'Many experts welcomed the Lilly data as an important step forward but cautioned that donanemab was not a cure and the full results of the trial have not yet been published and need to be closely studied.'

https://www.ft.com/content/b18aefc1-ccbc-442e-a23c-117f27826d71

'Só em Portugal é que isto poderia acontecer. Há uma crise política que ameaça a continuidade do Governo, mas quem pode acabar por cair é o líder do principal partido da oposição.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/05/08/opiniao/opiniao/marcha-funebre-montenegro-entrada-passos-2048785

Provence

The East River, by @madparreira

#Print #Printmaking #handmade #printmakingart #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com