Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

"Scientists have raised concerns for years about the impacts of all these pressures on mental health. But a series of studies in the past few years are now providing hard data. And the findings show that the situation is dire."
#MentalHealth

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01708-4

We're pleased to announce our 2024 Meeting 'Pre-clinical Modelling of Human Genetic Disease and Therapy!

This phenomenal conference is organised by Wendy Bickmore, Luke Boulter, Sara Brown, Pleasantine Mill, and our own Liz Patton & Owen Sansom.

Register for updates: https://biologists.com/meetings/dmmgenetics2024
#dmmgenetics

To keep with our #mission, the registration costs are low, but the confirmed #speakers are an utter #DreamTeam!

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Today we expose how the Information Commissioner's Office (UK) failed to protect our privacy during the pandemic.

Our report finds that our data rights weren't enforced, despite clear breaches of data protection laws by the government.

Find out more ⬇️

#GDPR #dataprotection #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-report-finds-that-ico-failed-to-hold-the-government-to-account-over-use-of-public-health-data-during-pandemic/

Transferred #mitochondria accumulate reactive oxygen species, promoting proliferation. #Cancer #ReactiveOxygenSpecies #CellCycle https://elifesciences.org/articles/85494?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

'Our comprehensive genomic survey revealed that 14 to 40 kbp long DNA viruses of the Polinton-like supergroup are frequent inhabitants of diverse protist genomes. Moreover, our finding of thousands of endogenous viruses in one-third of all sequenced protist genomes may still be a conservative estimate.'

#Virology

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300465120#sec-2

If we took out the Onion masthead, would you know this was satire?
HT @richardsever

https://www.theonion.com/florida-bans-men-from-becoming-nurses-1850448027

'We found that the follicular dendritic cell network was smaller in aged mice. Furthermore, the TFH cells that are normally localized within the light zone were instead dispersed throughout the GC in aged mice (Fig. 1), owing to enhanced expression of CXCR4 (a CXCL12 receptor) that directed the TFH cells to the CXCL12-rich dark zone.'
#Immunology #GerminalCenter

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01520-2

Climate Scientists Leave Twitter For Mastodon

So, it is possible for a group to make the collective decision to leave Twitter. Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.

Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges >>> https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges

"Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists' forum powered by Mastodon."

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#twittermigration #climate

Duplication and Losses of Opsin Genes in Lophotrochozoan Evolution https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad066 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

Incidence and prevalence of 19 autoimmune diseases in the UK estimates that 1:10 individuals will suffer from at least one.

#Immunology #Autoimmunity #AutoimmuneDisease #Epidemiology

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00457-9/fulltext

'Icahn alleges that Thompson and deSouza championed a “reckless decision” to close Illumina’s $8bn acquisition of cancer test developer Grail in 2021 against the wishes of EU and US antitrust regulators. Illumina’s market capitalisation has plunged from $75bn in August 2021, when it bought Grail, to just over $32bn on Tuesday.'

https://www.ft.com/content/16021817-6202-4f38-8af9-3932bf555aa8

The cost of being black in America.

"The Black population had 1.63 million excess deaths, representing more than 80 million years of potential life lost over the [twenty two year] study period."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804822

"Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges [which was of course the desired outcome of Musk's takeover]" via @afpfr News Agency: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230524-climate-scientists-flee-twitter-as-hostility-surges

@Scotter @StillIRise1963 @zuzuruz
Musk bought Twitter specifically to influence the 2024 election (IMHO)

That explains his overpaying
It explains his coding to boost his tweets
It explains the unblocking code
It explains his courting the radical right extremists
...and it explains why DeSantis is announcing his run on Twitter.

'Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a right-wing social network.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/