Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'However, we found through a chance encounter that some unscrupulous actors have added extra references, invisible in the text but present in the articles' metadata, when they submitted the articles to scientific databases. The result? Citation counts for certain researchers or journals have skyrocketed, even though these references were not cited by the authors in their articles.'

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-scientific-fraud-uncovering.html

'At his rehabilitation medicine practice in Illinois, Dr. Azlan Tariq typically spent seven hours a week fighting with insurance companies reluctant to pay for his patients’ treatments.

He often lost.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/health/doctors-insurers-artificial-intelligence.html

'It would be easier to run sensible immigration policy with EU freedom of movement. Better to have migrants with good employment rights who can respond to shifting demand by switching employers and moving back and forth from the UK rather than vulnerable workers trapped by company- or sector-specific visas. It’s unlikely the UK would be flooded with cheap European labour: incomes in central and eastern European countries have rapidly converged with those in western Europe. But anything related to the EU and free movement of workers remains toxic. Depressingly, Labour this year ruled out the European Commission’s suggestion of an EU-UK youth mobility scheme.'

https://www.ft.com/content/a0e9fe66-5ca1-4fbc-af7a-6cbbe4f1da1d

'Neste aspeto, a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) e os diferentes ministros que a têm tutelado adicionam à sua já conhecida incompetência uns laivos de crueldade, uma vez que nem dão estabilidade laboral aos investigadores, nem lhes dizem o que têm de fazer para a obter. Os investigadores vivem com o credo na boca, impossibilitados de fazer planos de vida além de seis anos ou a fazê-los por sua conta e risco, confiando não no seu trabalho e mérito individual, mas na sorte de serem selecionados num qualquer concurso.'

https://www.publico.pt/2024/07/11/ciencia/opiniao/investigadores-senhor-ministro-2096580

Joan Didion, 1988
'When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about “the democratic process,” or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals, to those who manage policy and those who report on it, to those who run the polls and those who quote them, to those who ask and those who answer the questions on the Sunday shows, to the media consultants, to the columnists, to the issues advisers, to those who give the off-the-record breakfasts and to those who attend them; to that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life.'
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1988/10/27/insider-baseball/

'The results of these efforts were extraordinary, however. The images revealed jumping spiders, weevils, dragonfly nymphs, and myriad other arthropods in exquisite detail, from an unprecedentedly personal perspective.'

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-monsters/

'Here, we developed a multi-tumor mouse model system to track hundreds of expanding and contracting CD8+ T cell clones over multiple timepoints in tumors of the same individual. Through coupling of clonal expansion dynamics and single-cell RNA/TCR-seq data, we identified a transcriptomic signature in PD-1+Ly108+ precursor exhausted cells that strongly predicts rates of intratumoral clone expansion in mice and humans.'
#Preprint #Immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.05.601623v1

'A play, Kyoto — which had its world premiere last month at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK — attempts to cast a fresh light on climate narratives by focusing on the negotiations of the Kyoto Protocol. This international treaty, signed on 11 December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, was the first to commit countries to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to mitigate climate change.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02251-6