{"id":17360,"date":"2013-05-02T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2021-09-25T19:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T17:32:28","slug":"promesse-os-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/02\/promesse-os-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"Promesse (O's digest)"},"content":{"rendered":"

La ricerca pi\u00f9 importante – ovviamente – \u00a0\u00e8 quella di Andreas Anger et al<\/a>.<\/strong> “sull’architettura molecolare” – meravigliosamente simile, ma per noi del Fan Club non \u00e8 una sorpresa – del ribosoma S80 nostro e della moscerina della frutta.<\/p>\n

A parte questa e i genomi<\/strong><\/a> del carcinoma endometriale (anche la Drosophila m. ha un gene P53<\/em>…) pubblicati in open access dal Cancer Genome Atlas Network<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Nature<\/em> rigira il coltello in alcune piaghe.
\nSulla necessit\u00e0 di monitorare clima e ambiente, il POTUS \u00a0parla bene, ma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Obama is one of many to blame for the brewing crisis. The lack of leadership at the White House is matched by the intransigence of Congress, which set in motion the across-the-board sequestration spending cuts that took effect on 1 March, slashing about 5% from the budgets of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other key science agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Non che qui vada molto meglio:<\/p>\n

The situation is little better in Europe. Member states approved a budget last year that gives the European Space Agency about 80% of what it is seeking to develop research satellites over the next five years. Scientists are worried that the shortfall could delay the planned launch of a climate-change mission, called Earth Explorer 8, in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tarnished Promises\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Editoriale<\/strong><\/a> e <\/span>supplemento<\/strong><\/a> sulle piante transgeniche, che compiono 30 anni:<\/span><\/p>\n

Supporting GM crops can seem a thankless job: it is worthwhile to stand up for good science and the promise that it holds, but defending profit-hungry corporations feels less rewarding.<\/em><\/p>\n

Per corporations, leggi per esempio Monsanto; per “good science” leggi per esempio Pest trade-off in biology<\/strong><\/a>, la riduzione dei danni da bruchi nel cotone BT si traduce in aumento degli afidi. Come sempre quando si usa un unico deterrente invece di forme di controllo bio-integrate.<\/p>\n

Lo diceva gi\u00e0 Rachel Carson pi\u00f9 di 50 anni fa a proposito del DDT…<\/p>\n

Nel frattempo, la FDA deve ancora decidere<\/strong><\/a> se approvare o meno la vendita del salmone transgenico AquaBounty.<\/p>\n

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La legge inglese sulla diffamazione \u00e8 stata finalmente cambiata, grazie alla tenacia delle sue principali vittime, <\/span>editoriale<\/strong><\/a> sollevato, soddisfazione <\/span>non unanime<\/strong><\/a> per\u00f2:<\/span><\/p>\n

The rewriting of the law led to celebration among the scientists, journalists, lawyers and others who have pushed for reform. But there were cautionary voices. It is not yet clear how the new law will work in practice for much of the Internet. And it may not reduce the cost of litigation. If defending an action is still financially crippling, concerns that the law can be used to threaten people into silence will persist.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dettagli qui<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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La <\/span>curva di Keeling<\/strong><\/a> si avvicina ai 400 ppm di CO2 in atmosfera. (Se i paesi non riescono a mettersi d’accordo sui tagli alle emissioni, come possiamo credere che riescano a farlo sugli interventi di geoingegneria? chiedeva Clive Hamilton<\/strong><\/a>) <\/span>Soluzione, tagliare i fondi per il monitoraggio: <\/span><\/p>\n

researchers are struggling to keep the Mauna Loa station going. \u201cThe amount of money that I\u2019m able to obtain for the programme has diminished over time,\u201d says Keeling (figlio, ndt), whose group monitors CO2\u00a0concentration at 13 sites around the world.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s kind of silly that we chose to go all ostrich-like,\u201d says White of the funding difficulties. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere, when we ought to be monitoring even more.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Vedi anche “How climate scientists are being framed<\/a>“.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Craig Venter e Novartis contro Ilaria Capua (1), ma che sorpresa! I virologi cinesi hanno subito messo le sequenze dell’H7N9<\/strong><\/a> nella banca dati GISAID<\/strong><\/a> – l’iniziativa di Ilaria che fa ancora digrignare molti denti – senza aspettare di pubblicare la propria analisi, scrivono Declan Butler e David Cyranoski:<\/span><\/p>\n

On 5 April, the Chinese scientists submitted their first major H7N9 paper, including analyses of the sequences, to\u00a0The New England Journal of Medicine\u00a0(NEJM). …\u00a0This news was followed by what seemed to be a snub. It emerged on 5 April that drug firm Novartis in Basel, Switzerland, and the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, planned to use the uploaded sequences to develop H7N9 vaccines. The initiative had US government funding and would be a collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia \u2014 but not with the Chinese team. The Chinese researchers felt that this was not in the spirit of GISAID. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Questo mi ricorda che<\/span> Ron Fouchier – gi\u00e0 parecchio contestato per aver creato un virus aviario trasmissibile per via aerea – <\/span>ha brevettato<\/strong><\/a> ogni sfruttamento delle sequenze del nuovo coronavirus senza nemmeno avvisare il ricercatore saudita che gli aveva dato i campioni. Cos\u00ec ha reso pi\u00f9 difficile il lavoro dei ricercatori che devono rintracciarne la fonte negli allevamenti locali di cammelli (molto probabilmente)…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tarnished Promises\u00a0bis<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nUn’altra star<\/strong><\/a> della psicologia sociale<\/strong><\/a> olandese<\/span> \u00e8 messa in discussione,\u00a0scrive<\/strong><\/a> Alison Abbott (link inseriti): <\/span><\/p>\n

A paper published<\/strong><\/a> in\u00a0PLoS ONE\u00a0last week\u00a0reports that nine different experiments failed to replicate this example of \u2018intelligence priming\u2019, first described in 1998<\/strong><\/a> by Ap Dijksterhuis, a social psychologist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and now included in textbooks.<\/em>
\nDavid Shanks, a cognitive psychologist at University College London, UK, and first author of the paper in PLoS ONE, is among sceptical scientists calling for Dijksterhuis to design a detailed experimental protocol to be carried out indifferent laboratories to pin down the effect. Dijksterhuis has rejected the request, saying that he \u201cstands by the general effect\u201d and blames the failure to replicate on \u201cpoor experiments\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gi\u00e0. Vedi anche “Bit-sized science<\/a>“. Nel frattempo il suo ex collega\u00a0Diederik Stapel<\/a> <\/strong>\u00e8 alla sua 53ma (corretto, h\/t Ivan O.) ritrattazione e fa carriera come “consulente strategico<\/strong><\/a>“…<\/p>\n

(1) Sottosegretaria<\/strong><\/a> alla ricerca?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

La ricerca pi\u00f9 importante – ovviamente – \u00a0\u00e8 quella di Andreas Anger et al. “sull’architettura molecolare” – meravigliosamente simile, ma per noi del Fan Club non \u00e8 una sorpresa – del ribosoma S80 nostro e della moscerina della frutta. A parte questa e i genomi del carcinoma endometriale (anche la Drosophila m. ha un gene… Continua a leggere Promesse (O's digest)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,10,13,17],"tags":[538,1938,3073,3246,3445,4725,5821],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altri-animali","category-ambiente","category-clima","category-drosophila-fanzine","category-genetica","tag-ap-dijksterhuis","tag-diederik-stapel","tag-gisaid","tag-h7n9","tag-ilaria-capua","tag-nature","tag-replicablita","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41493,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions\/41493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}