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Excellent talk by Simon Sharpe @INETOxford just now, pointing out how the #climate crisis challenges economic #orthodoxy in several ways. Spoiler š„"Economics as a discipline has forgotten what the scientific method is" (@camjhep pointing to #heterodox ideas in defense)š§µ
š”The premise: To meet our #climate goals, we need to reduce emissions globally by about 8% per year by 2030, as compared to the 1,5% p.a. achieved so far - hence the title of his book #FiveTimesFaster
1ā£ An #economy going through the rapid and far-reaching systems #transition this requires (acc. to @IPCC_CH) cannot be analysed in terms of #equilibrium, a sitation in which "nobody has any immediate reason to change their actions" according to the Oxford Dictionary of Economics. 
First, kudos to the Chinese authors doing this work & a shoutout to @edwardcholmes also involved
I already flagged this Wang et al. preprint yesterday but it is worth explaining its significance to both the #origins discussion and the related pandemic #prevention discussion
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I already flagged this Wang et al. preprint yesterday but it is worth explaining its significance to both the #origins discussion and the related pandemic #prevention discussion
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First: Origins
One thing that goes often down in all the noise surrounding #lableak is the fact that SARS-CoV-2, and actually all CoVs, possess #mosaic genomes.
This is because CoVs evolve not only through mutation but also through exchanging genetic elements with other CoVs
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One thing that goes often down in all the noise surrounding #lableak is the fact that SARS-CoV-2, and actually all CoVs, possess #mosaic genomes.
This is because CoVs evolve not only through mutation but also through exchanging genetic elements with other CoVs
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This exchange is called '#recombination'.
One can imagine CoV genomes like colorful Lego brick walls, and recombination as taking one brick from a different virus and putting it in the wall of another; changing the color while keeping roughly the function.
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One can imagine CoV genomes like colorful Lego brick walls, and recombination as taking one brick from a different virus and putting it in the wall of another; changing the color while keeping roughly the function.
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The Mitochondrial #Eve is the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend. š§µš½
The mitochondrial haplogroup mt-MRCA was split at around 155,000 years ago, which is later than the speciation of Homo sapiens.
The Y-chromosomal #Adam is the male analog to the "Mitochondrial Eve", and is the individual from whom all living humans are patrilineally descended.
The age of the Y-MRCA is subject to substantial uncertainty.
The age of the Y-MRCA is subject to substantial uncertainty.
Continuing excellent coverage of the #COVID19 pandemicāand the science of epidemiologyāby @FoodieScience and @NPRinskeep.
npr.org/sections/goatsā¦
npr.org/sections/goatsā¦
's comments to @FoodieScience were based on our research estimating the durability of immunity to COVID-19 using comparative phylogenetics.
In case anyone is keeping score, we applied comparative evolutionary approaches (long before reinfection was common) to predict the durability of immunity, and our predictions were SPOT ON.
thelancet.com/journals/lanmiā¦
thelancet.com/journals/lanmiā¦
A new job, a #pig, a pregnancy, a move, a pandemic, 5(6) rev and many #pampers later, Iām delighted to share my co-first authorship with @KellerValsecchi in the @AsifaAkhtar1 lab today in @nature. Thread below for summary nature.com/articles/s4158ā¦
In this crazy journey we reconstituted the minimal #Drosophila requirements to achieve #Xchromosome targeting
We systematically asked the hierarchical interdependencies of the known MSL complex members to understand the contribution of #DNAmotif, #interaction_partners and #evolutionary determinants in the process of targeting the single male #Xchromosome for transcriptional upregulation
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 10/17/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/10/17/daiā¦
Pinpointing the 'silent' mutations that gave the coronavirus an evolutionary edge
medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-sā¦
#evolutionary #COVID19
medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-sā¦
#evolutionary #COVID19
No, Roger Penrose, We See No Evidence Of A āUniverse Before The Big Bangā
medium.com/starts-with-a-ā¦
#BigBang #universe #astrophysics
medium.com/starts-with-a-ā¦
#BigBang #universe #astrophysics
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 07/30/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/07/30/daiā¦
Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Microbiology
nature.com/articles/s4156ā¦
#pandemic #evolutionary #origins #microbiology
nature.com/articles/s4156ā¦
#pandemic #evolutionary #origins #microbiology
Strike 1: Gold; Strike 2: Dollar; Strike 3: Inflation Expectations ā Alhambra Investments
alhambrapartners.com/2020/07/28/strā¦
#inflation #gold #expectations #investments
alhambrapartners.com/2020/07/28/strā¦
#inflation #gold #expectations #investments
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNetĀ 07/28/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/daiā¦
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 6/16/2020-2
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/daiā¦
Capitalism's Case for Abolishing Billionaires - Evonomics
evonomics.com/capitalism-casā¦
#billionaires #capitalism
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/daiā¦
Capitalism's Case for Abolishing Billionaires - Evonomics
evonomics.com/capitalism-casā¦
#billionaires #capitalism
Using Evolutionary Social Science to Deal with Pandemics - Evonomics
evonomics.com/responding-to-ā¦
#social #coronavirus #evolutionary #complexity
evonomics.com/responding-to-ā¦
#social #coronavirus #evolutionary #complexity
Petroyuanās stature grows on Shanghai exchange, helping worldās largest energy importer cut dependence on US dollars | South China Morning Post
scmp.com/business/chinaā¦
#petroyuan #oil #energy
scmp.com/business/chinaā¦
#petroyuan #oil #energy
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 6/05/2020-2
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/daiā¦
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magā¦
#philosophy #postmodernism #Science
greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/daiā¦
Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magā¦
#philosophy #postmodernism #Science
Leading with the Unknowns in COVID-19 Models - Scientific American Blog Network
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/lā¦
#models #uncertainty #DecisionMaking
blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/lā¦
#models #uncertainty #DecisionMaking
As promised to @g_m_hodgson & @ingridharvold I got myself a copy of Hodgsonās book e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/is-thā¦. Itās hard 2 do justice in a thread to the many arguments he makes, but Iāll try to engage. 1/
Among other things, a) Hodgson correctly points out that lack of raison dāetre 4 hetecon may be responsible 4 its marginalization. I also agree that b) agreement on a ācoreā among hetecons would be desirable. He also notes c) general neglect of micro (Iāll return 2 this). 2/
Reviewing various attempts at self-definition of heterodoxy, Hodgson looks at the late Fred Leeās āpoliticalā project of gathering anti-capitalist economists under the heterodox umbrella as prone to failure; & Tony Lawsonās dichotomy b/w āopenā and āclosedā systems... 3/
#ShelterInPlace #NonFiction #BookRecommendations !
Sharing takeaways and recs from recent reading blocks.
Who would I recommend this to?
š Everyone
š Any interest in topic
šļø You often read on this topic
š Nah
Michelin, not Amazon, style ratings = any non-š is a good book.
Sharing takeaways and recs from recent reading blocks.
Who would I recommend this to?
š Everyone
š Any interest in topic
šļø You often read on this topic
š Nah
Michelin, not Amazon, style ratings = any non-š is a good book.
š
Keynes Hayek by @NWapshott
Topic: šš°
Layperson's history of JM Keynes' inventing #macroeconomics, and opposition by ppl who fear inflation > unemployment.
ā¢ #Stimulus packages are <100y old
ā¢ They seem like magic, but aren't
ā¢ Fiscal policy goes beyond red vs blue
Keynes Hayek by @NWapshott
Topic: šš°
Layperson's history of JM Keynes' inventing #macroeconomics, and opposition by ppl who fear inflation > unemployment.
ā¢ #Stimulus packages are <100y old
ā¢ They seem like magic, but aren't
ā¢ Fiscal policy goes beyond red vs blue
šļø
The Snowball by @aliceschroeder
Topic š°š
Great bio, but #Buffett's life is so consistent most ppl won't need 700 pages of it.
ā¢ "Take a simple idea, and take it very seriously"
ā¢ Learned early he loves making money, never stopped
ā¢ Wife surely made him a better human
The Snowball by @aliceschroeder
Topic š°š
Great bio, but #Buffett's life is so consistent most ppl won't need 700 pages of it.
ā¢ "Take a simple idea, and take it very seriously"
ā¢ Learned early he loves making money, never stopped
ā¢ Wife surely made him a better human
THIS š #Mitochondria play a role in helping white blood cells target human #pathogensāļøBelow, mitochondria-derived vesicles delivered #antimicrobial reactive oxygen species to control phagosome-localized S. aureus (a #bacterial infection)
So letās add #mitochondria to the growing list of human organelles/proteins/pathways recently shown to have #antimicrobial activity š Other compounds already on that list include #amyloid beta, alpha-syn, PrP, #HMOs etcāļøMore context here: microbeminded.com/2018/12/30/myfā¦
Also #mitochondria are derived from #bacterial ancestors, and can become infected by a range of viral/bacterial #pathogens š Suggests mitochondriaās antimicrobial activities may be defense mechanisms that stem from their #evolutionary history as a free-living organisms
