Sul New York Times ieri, è uscita una pagina di pubblicità per Time’s Up
Dear Sisters,
The clock has run out on sexual assault, harassment and inequality in the workplace. It’s time to do something about it.
Alla lettera di solidarietà ricevuta in novembre da Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, oltre trecento attrici, produttrici, sceneggiatrici, agenti, avvocate rispondono con un ringraziamento su La Opinión, un’iniziativa politica, $13 milioni per un fondo legale, e gruppi di lavoro insieme a organizzazioni come Lean In, Better Brave, RAINN ecc.
Rif. NY Times, The Guardian, Repubblica
Buon anno.
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Su Nature Climate Change, escono correzioni ai modelli di precipitazioni fra i Tropici e per le zone aride, fin qui niente di speciale, e un modello del ciclo del carbonio collegato a uno di “comportamento umano”. Brian Beckage et al. del Working Group on Human Risk Perception and Climate Change, all’università del Tennessee, e del National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center all’univ. del Maryland
link the C-ROADS climate model to a social model of behavioural change to examine how interactions between perceived risk and emissions behaviour influence projected climate change.
(link aggiunto). Dal com. stampa
Human behavioral changes, such as installing solar panels or investing in public transportation, alter greenhouse gas emissions, which change the global temperature and thus the frequency of extreme events, leading to new behaviors, and the cycle continues. Combining climate projections and social processes, the model predicts global temperature change ranging from 3.4 to 6.2°C by 2100, compared to 4.9°C from the climate model alone.
Aspetterei conferme. Su un tema affine, Kevin Cowtan, Robert Rohde e Zeke Hausfather suggeriscono di nuovo piccole correzioni alle serie NOAA e Hadley-Crut delle temperature alla superficie del mare.
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Patrick Goymer, il direttore di Nature Eco&Evo, fa un bilancio dei paper pubblicati nel primo anno:
First, we looked at gender.
Deprimente (ma in biologia la situazione sta lentamente migliorando, rif. Figura 1, p. 14), così come la diversità geografica degli autori.
And finally, the answer to the all-important ecology or evolution question. When forced to assign every peer-reviewed published article to either ecology or evolution (and bearing in mind that it is really a false dichotomy — many of them could be classed as both), the editor found that evolution just came in as the winner, with 121 to ecology’s 106.
Margaret McKinnon spiega le implicazioni del paper suo e di molti altri sull’evoluzione del plasmodio:
using malaria control strategies that target in-host multiplication (anti-replication vaccines, drugs) may force the parasite to become nastier while strategies that target transmission (bednets, infection- and transmission-blocking vaccines) are likely to do the opposite. We would not, and never have, argue(d) that drugs and vaccines should not be used: these save millions of young lives today and in the future. But there are many ways to ‘skin the malaria cat’. As for many now-conquered infectious diseases, we advocate a ‘prevention better than cure’ approach to malaria, not only for the usual epidemiological reasons, but for evolutionary ones too.