Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'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

'A ocupação dos colonatos não foi feita sem violência. As terras eram habitadas e cultivadas pela população local. Por exemplo, em Angola, “um senhor que teve um alto cargo no sector da agricultura disse-me que aquelas casas, aquelas palhotas, foram arrasadas a bulldozer para se estabelecer o colonato de Cela”

https://www.publico.pt/multimedia/interactivo/racismo-em-portugues-2/quando-os-negros-eram-feitos-estrangeiros-na-sua-propria-terra

'In 2019, he analysed the combined findings of all randomised clinical trials testing immunotherapy in the past 10 years, spanning 11,000 patients. In 19 out of 20 trials, men’s survival rate was double that seen in women.'

https://www.ft.com/content/ce9895f9-8ead-4b43-b473-874aebabc0e6

'Many politicians, pundits, and the general public now favor the lab leak idea. Most scientists, particularly virologists, do not. This schism threatens their legitimate and ultimately socially important work, as outlined in a peer-reviewed publication published on August 1 in the Journal of Virology that was written by 41 virologists. I am one of them.'

https://www.statnews.com/2024/08/02/coronavirus-lab-leak-hypothesis-damages-science/

'The idea of ‘plant behaviour’ may seem odd, given the association of the word ‘behaviour’ with animals, including humans. When we think of classic animal behaviours – dancing honeybees, dogs wagging their tails, primates grooming each other – we may wonder what there could possibly be in plant life corresponding to this.'

https://aeon.co/essays/what-plant-philosophy-says-about-plant-agency-and-intelligence

Auguste Lepère's "Study for the woodcut 'Bassin des Tuileries'" breathes life into late 19th-century Paris. The young girl by the pond captures innocence amidst elegant fashion. What stories do you think this scene tells about its time?

#ArtHistory #AugusteLepère #ClevelandArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.66

@cyrilpedia a link for those without subscription

How medical research is failing women

https://archive.is/cM2LO

#medicine #women #science #health #patriarchy

"Air New Zealand Ltd.’s decision to ditch its 2030 emissions target suggests more #airlines will also have to confront a harsh reality: There’s simply not enough sustainable fuel or new, more-efficient aircraft.

“When the general public is calling for a decarbonized world, it puts pressure on these airlines and their social license to operate.” "

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-31/air-new-zealand-opens-door-for-other-airlines-to-dump-climate-goals
#SustainableAviationFuel #SAF

'We used Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a live-attenuated vaccine, to train the innate immune system and detected epigenetic reprogramming of brain-resident myeloid cells and functional restoration of myelin debris clearance and lesion recovery.'
#Immunology #Neuroimmunology
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(24)00348-0

'It was inevitable that holding Olympic events in a river in which French people had recently threatened to shit en masse would be problematic.
Just weeks ago, this very column wondered if “getting dysentery” was about to become an Olympic event and that seems to be happening after the swimming part of the triathlon was repeatedly postponed because the Seine is just too dirty.'

https://www.politico.eu/article/new-olympic-events-revealed-getting-dysentry-taking-a-brick-to-the-balls-and-not-being-very-smart/

'Kowaltowski is one of countless researchers who report they’re too strapped to pay these article-processing charges (APCs), which can reach more than $12,000 per paper and are becoming the dominant business model for scientific publishing. Publishers tout fee waivers or discounts for researchers in need—but obtaining them is cumbersome, authors say. That’s a worry especially in the Global South, but even some authors in wealthier countries say they end up paying APCs from their own pockets.'
https://www.science.org/content/article/pay-publish-model-open-access-pricing-scientists

'Uma das espécies de mosquito que transmite a #dengue, o Aedes albopictus, foi detectado esta quarta-feira nos municípios de Cascais, no distrito de Lisboa, e de Pombal, no distrito de Leiria, de acordo com uma nota de imprensa da Direcção-Geral de Saúde, divulgada esta quinta-feira. Nenhum dos mosquitos identificados em Portugal continental carregava vírus patogénicos para os humanos, segundo a nota.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/08/01/ciencia/noticia/dgs-recomenda-prevencao-controlo-mosquitos-transmitem-dengue-zika-2099529

'Thus, here we asked whether B. bassiana could damage the Drosophila brain via Toll-1, Wek and Sarm. We show that exposure to B. bassiana reduced fly lifespan and impaired locomotion. B. bassiana entered the brain and induced the up-regulation of AMPs, as well as wek and sarm, within the brain. Exposure to B. bassiana caused neuronal and glial loss in the adult Drosophilabrain. Importantly, RNAi knockdown of Toll-1, wek or sarm concomitantly with infection prevented B. bassiana induced cell loss.'
#Immunology #InnateImmunity
#Preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.29.591341v1