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One of the world’s leading suppliers of monkeys and other animals for biomedical research has declared bankruptcy. https://scim.ag/3QgpgoK
In a new #ScienceAdvances study, researchers present soft, magnetic hair flow sensors that allow autonomous underwater robots to measure their speed and detect upstream objects, demonstrating a potential tool for underwater exploration. https://scim.ag/43O9Xqz
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“Imagine you’re defined as an Ebola suspect, you’re brought into a center, and then you’re kept there for 3 or 4 days without knowing the result. You get agitated, your community gets agitated, and everyone is angry at the health care workers.”
I talked to @who.int’s Chikwe Ihekweazu who’s in Bunia🧪
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New evidence of how biomedical research has become more political under Trump: New executive order reclassifying civil service science jobs as political hits NIH hard www.science.org/content/arti...
Chikwe Ihekweazu, on the ground in Congo, discusses challenges of bringing the outbreak under control
U.S. health agencies are moving to launch new research—and potentially pass regulations—on a food category that industry and some scientists have long dismissed as misleading: ultraprocessed foods.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4uYFEcW
A new imaging analysis in #ScienceSignaling identifies how the protein PTPN22 controls how #TCells remodel their cytoskeletons to form synapses with their targets—and suggests that defects in this constraint mechanism may contribute to #autoimmunity. https://scim.ag/4fv07kB
Novelty is often called a key ingredient for high-quality research, but it is notoriously thorny to define or measure. A new tool that puts numbers to how novel a paper is could help—and might be used to more efficiently evaluate the growing flood of scientific manuscripts. https://scim.ag/4et5e3I
Kai Kupferschmidt
"The real work is not convincing myself I belong …. Instead, the challenge is rewiring my own perspectives and my responses to the subtle and persistent messages telling me I’m not what a professor looks like." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4xdo4TI
Several diabetes researchers were brusquely escorted out of a major scientific conference organized by the American Diabetes Association for distributing paper copies of an editorial criticizing President Donald Trump’s administration. https://scim.ag/3StTrJS
Left-pawed dogs take fewer risks. Right-pawed dogs can be more aggressive. And ambilateral dogs appear to be more fearful of thunderstorms. Fun story by @phiejacobs.bsky.social for @science.org
