Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'Increasingly, social media serves as a central site for PopSci, with many scientists sharing their work and thoughts on X, Tik-Tok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and other venues. Although this strategy does have a broad potential for impact, those platforms also run amok with misinformation and anti-science to the point that anti-intellectual propaganda often swamps the voices of scientists. In a time where “alternate truths” and anti-science ideologies circulate widely, powerfully, and effectively, the public needs knowledge, insight, and assistance from science, and scientists, more than ever.'
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adq8026

'Pouca gente se lembra, mas Viktor Orbán foi em tempos um primeiro-ministro banal. Derrotado nas urnas, ficou surpreso e magoado, declarando que “a nação não pode estar na oposição”, mas não teve outro remédio e abandonou o poder. O Orbán que conhecemos hoje — o que fechou jornais e expulsou universidades, controlou tribunais e os usou para prejudicar adversários — é o Orbán do segundo mandato. O padrão do autoritário cumpriu-se, e Orbán é como sempre uma lição para o futuro.'
https://expresso.pt/opiniao/2024-07-18-o-problema-nao-e-se-trump-mas-qual-trump-29bc209a

"Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year."

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/academic-authors-shocked-after-taylor--francis-sells-access-to-their-research-to-microsoft-ai

'The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention once advised five days of isolation after a positive Covid test, followed by five days of masking when out in public. That is still a reasonable approach, Dr. Barouch said. “It’s believed that after about five days, then contagiousness goes down substantially,” he said, though that “doesn’t necessarily mean every single person on day six would not be contagious.”'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/well/covid-contagious-period.html

'Jackie’s son was one of 171 people sickened and 22 hospitalized from September 2023 to March 2024 in a salmonella outbreak linked to unpasteurized milk from Raw Farm, according to the California Department of Public Health.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/well/raw-milk-health-salmonella.html

'Pluvicto is one of a new generation of so-called “radiopharmaceutical” therapies that can help cancer patients live longer, but are expensive to produce due to complex supply chains. The US list price of the drug is about $42,500 a dose, with a treatment cycle of up to six doses, but it is not offered by some European health systems.'

https://www.ft.com/content/1a1910e5-fd95-45f9-b8fd-adc4d7b3c8e7