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The paper is already deleted from nature’s website. I also found a review article from 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clim.2018.10.013) talking about SLAMF6 in disease that doesn’t link it only to AML. So maybe read with caution

Call for contributions and nominations: COP30, Brazil https://council.science/news/cop30-call/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=cop30-call

This is pretty amazing. There’s so much we don’t know

Transdisciplinary science: Early- and mid-careers shaping the future of science https://council.science/podcasts/transdisciplinary-science-early-and-mid-careers/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=transdisciplinary-science-early-and-mid-careers

In 2005, Cassini found the first evidence that Enceladus has a hidden ocean beneath its icy surface. Jets of water burst from cracks close to the moon’s south pole, shooting ice grains into space. Smaller than grains of sand, some of the tiny pieces of ice fall back onto the moon’s surface, whilst others escape and form a ring around Saturn that traces Enceladus’s orbit.

Not sure if this has any relation to the downvotes, but there’s a tonne of javascripts running on that page. I pretty much gave up after some fiddling around. Love that lead image, though.

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A human dangling from one of the kirigami parachutes would need one with a radius of about 100 meters to keep from crash-landing. So, more limited utility. Still neat though.

Partway through the article… He’s making a couple of fundamental mistakes… Social-process has phases exactly the same as fluid-dynamics, or other physics-processes, does. the phase in-which casual rules about free-speech are good-enough, is finished, this fall, globally: the ever-escalating polarization enforced by the anti-considered-reasoning lobbies ( read Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” book, to really understand the difference between the imprint->reaction brain-system ( lower forebrain, from the stuff in “Top Brain / Bottom Brain” ), which Kahneman & Tversky called … uninformatively … “System 1”, & the considered-reasoning brain-system ( upper forebrain, from that same book & the research which identified that programming uses the upper-forebrain significantly in ways that normal-speech/language definitely does not ) … will finally have extinguished-from-our-world such capacity. Both the Leninists & the Republicans eradicate considered-reasoning from education, in order to enforce imprint->reaction’s rule, instead ( imprint->reaction, aka axiom-based-knowing, is a defining-feature of formal-systems, ideologies, prejudices, & “religions”. All reject evidence’s validity-to-falsify them. All hold that their-axioms are inherently more valid than contradictory universe-speech/evidence. All are automatic/reactive. Hofstadter’s “Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” demonstrated this, in the interactions between the hare & the tortoise. ) So, he’s ignoring that in different social-process-phases, different-rules-for-free-speech are required. shrug Here’s a point that he rejects: Can a person’s opinion disqualify them from a category of authority? I say absolutely yes it can: Anybody who rejects the region’s aviation-authority’s right to regulate aviation, MUST be prohibited from piloting aircraft: they are too great a threat to others’ lives. Anybody who rejects a country’s legitimacy, & holds that other-country has the right to subjugate it ( like a citizen in Ukraine holding that Russia has the right to demolish/butcher/obliterate Ukraine ) is functionally a pathogen in the “organism” of Ukraine, & ought not be permitted to exercise the authority to vote. Responsibility-based-authority has to be the basis, in all domains. Not authority-is-a-right, but responsible-authority is a privilege-or-right. Expressing meaning has to be in the same regime: enforcing disinformation’s displacing of truth isn’t a free-speech-right, it is active-treason against considered-reasoning’s ABILITY to govern our countries. Therefore even the opinion that “tylenol is the cause of autism” has to be subject to fact-checking’s overruling, because disinformation acts through social-pressure/forces, and can derail countries thereby, and that isn’t anyone’s right to be doing. So, … responsibility-based-rights is what I hold humankind has to stand on, but … obviously that is a very-minority view. Whatever… consequences’ll happen, either way: some ways are whole-species-fatal, though. _ /\ _

TL;DR: Not much it seems. Eating yogurt might help but is unlikely to overcome socioeconomic barriers.

Teal Jay doesn’t roll of the tongue

Frontiers Planet Prize, Fourth edition: Call for peer reviewers https://council.science/news/frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-call-for-peer-reviewers/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-call-for-peer-reviewers

Frontiers Planet Prize, Fourth edition: Applications open https://council.science/news/frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-applications/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=frontiers-planet-prize-fourth-edition-applications

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9273769 Check it out. @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml Also, first video in a while that involves Russia or Russians that doesn’t lambast them or have a “BUT” at the end of it regarding the Kremlin or Russian government.

A groundbreaking University of Chicago study published in April 2023 revealed unexpected similarities between photosynthesis and quantum physics[^9]. The research team discovered that excitons - paired electrons and holes that carry energy in leaves during photosynthesis - can form patterns similar to those seen in Bose-Einstein condensates, a quantum state previously only observed at extremely cold temperatures[^9]. “As far as we know, these areas have never been connected before, so we found this very compelling and exciting,” said study co-author Professor David Mazziotti[^9]. The study, published in PRX Energy, found that these exciton patterns can form “islands” of condensate-like behavior even at room temperature in disordered plant systems, potentially doubling energy transfer efficiency[^9]. This contrasts with traditional exciton condensates that require near-absolute zero temperatures and highly ordered materials[^9][^15]. The findings open new possibilities for developing synthetic materials that could harness this effect. As Mazziotti noted, “A perfect ideal exciton condensate is sensitive and requires a lot of special conditions, but for realistic applications, it’s exciting to see something that boosts efficiency but can happen in ambient conditions”[^9]. [^9]: UChicago News - Scientists find link between photosynthesis and ‘fifth state of matter’ [^15]: CBS News - New University of Chicago study discovers similarities between photosynthesis, supercooling of atoms

A new study by Columbia University researchers found that soccer heading causes damage to the brain’s orbitofrontal region where gray and white matter meet, leading to reduced verbal learning ability[^1]. The research examined 352 adult amateur soccer players in New York City, using advanced diffusion MRI techniques to analyze the gray-white matter interface. Players who performed frequent headers (over 1,000 per year) showed blurring of the normally sharp boundary between gray and white matter in the orbitofrontal region[^2]. Key findings: Greater heading exposure directly correlated with less distinct gray-white matter boundaries Changes in brain structure mediated poorer performance on verbal learning tests Damage concentrated in outer brain layers rather than deep white matter Effects most pronounced in players doing over 1,000 headers annually “What’s important about our studies is that they show, really for the first time, that exposure to repeated head impacts causes specific changes in the brain that, in turn, impair cognitive function,” said study leader Michael Lipton[^3]. The research team plans to investigate potential links between these brain changes and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), while also studying whether cardiovascular exercise might help protect against heading-related brain damage[^3]. [^1]: JAMA Network - Orbitofrontal Gray-White Interface Injury and the Association of Soccer Heading With Verbal Learning [^2]: Columbia University - Soccer Heading Does Most Damage to Brain Area Critical for Cognition [^3]: Columbia Radiology - Soccer Heading Linked to Measurable Decline of Brain Structure and Function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68THmzSxJqI

Too bad they didn’t have the scientific-integrity to test whether anti-Palestinian-prejudice ALSO predicted support for political-violence. Perhaps a month ago, I saw in a single week, 2 articles: 1 was by an Israeli Jew, who surveyed Palestinians, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, it was the similarity that struck me, not the individual-numbers ) of them wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews… But, of course, he wouldn’t dare to question what percentage of Israeli Jews wanted the extermination of Palestinians, would he? The other was by a Palestinian, who surveyed Israeli Jews, & discovered that 45% ( -/+ 2 or 3 %, as mentioned above ) of them wanted the extermination of Palestinians… But, of course, he wouldn’t dare to question what percentage of Palestinians wanted the extermination of Israeli Jews, would he? Pretending that prejudice is “only 1 way” is a gaslighting common to prejudice-pushers/ideologues. Scientific integrity breaks that, but political-motivation hasn’t got the spine to. No matter: the unconscious strategy of Hamas was to use the Palestinians as bait, to get Israel to display such sadism/psychopathy that Israel’s “deterrent” of its region from annihilating it … would cease. Once enough population is committed to annihilating one AT ANY COST, including “martyrdom”, THEN one has no “deterrent” left, obviously. Israel, incompetent at understanding anything outside its belief, … took the bait. Now it’s only a matter of time, before that annihilation ( predicted in the Christian bible’s Matt 24, btw, total-annihilation, in a single day, which wasn’t possible until nowadays ) happens, due to Netanyahu’s shamelessness & arrogance… Before his striking within Qatar, I’d thought it would be 3-4y before that annihilation would happen, given how mind-warpingly-slow the unfolding of this setting-up-WW3 has been going… But now that he’s crossed that line, that shortens the timescale, perhaps considerably… Beware unconscious-mind’s strategy: it’s goal is to MAKE its myth-fantasies actualize ( which is where all the apoctalypticism comes from, & also where all the “zombies” movies & games are coming from, too )! Every addict whose life was gradually & systematically destroyed by their unconscious-mind’s addiction “proving who’s boss” by breaking the life it inhabited, rather than tolerating the person living in that life to live, has proven just what unconscious-mind is capable of. ( I’m saying that as a guy who’s racked-up 7+ years as a homeless person, who’s seen what drugs do to lives, & who’s dug into unconscious-mind’s malevolence in a war to break my entire Eternity from its control/dominion: war’s war, & it’ll murder me, & anyone whose life it rules, rather than tolerate us removing our lives from unconsciousness’s rule ) See the difference between Trump’s unconscious-mind, which HAS strategy, you can see the progression from when he was young to now, & it’s consistently in the same direction, always-escalating, vs his SurfaceMind, which is chaotic, unmanaged, uncontrolled, & too random to reliably-predict. See it with Putin, too… & also understand that as they get older, they have less to lose, so therefore competitive-nihilism becomes more-valid, more “victory” to them… Same as competitive-nihilism is “victory” who have been pushed far enough ( I’m including both kami-kaze pilots & submarine-torpedo pilots, some Islamist murdercide-bombers, mass-shooters, etc, in competitive-nihilism, aka Negative-Sum game ) Have the integrity to do TRUE science, & don’t let ANY ideology hold the position that it is “the ONLY valid victim”, especially when it is genociding people wholesale, as we speak. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6669/Euro-Med-Monitor:-Israel’s-brutality-in-Gaza-surpasses-all-recent-forms-of-terrorism Until the study is done to discover what the predictor of motivation for genociding Palestinians is, it’s propaganda, not true-Science. _ /\ _

Emerging trends shaping scientific careers https://council.science/podcasts/emerging-trends-shaping-scientific-careers/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=emerging-trends-shaping-scientific-careers

A people-first approach to building digital pathways https://council.science/blog/jamaica-src-digital-pathways/?utm%5C_source=rss&utm%5C_medium=rss&utm%5C_campaign=jamaica-src-digital-pathways