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Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here’s our collection of stories featuring down-ballot voting, what happens when a far-right vision of government becomes reality in America, the marriage of religion and tech, and the all-time greatest “I voted” sticker.

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Two scientists from Massachusetts won this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were honored for their discovery of microRNA — research that will have profound effects on our understanding of how cells and organisms work. @gbhnews wrote about the scientists’ responses to their prize. “The surprises are what keep you young in science,” Ruvkun said. “And so I am constantly surprised. And my ignorance is bliss.”

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-10-07/pay-attention-to-revolutions-mass-scientists-win-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-discovery-of-microrna

#Science #NobelPrizeinMedicine #microRNA #Boston #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Hummingbirds live life on the edge. @KnowableMag looks at how these tiny creatures can shut their bodies down almost completely, fly thousands of miles, sometimes across open oceans, sometimes upside down and backwards, and can generate g-forces high enough to make a fighter pilot black out.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/how-hummingbirds-adapt-to-an-extreme-lifestyle

#Nature #Conservation #Environment #Ecology #Birds #Hummingbirds#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

It’s legal for prisoners to unionize — and it can be invaluable for incarcerated people who are often laboring in difficult conditions without pay. @TexasObserver’s Michelle Pitcher talked to Texans in and out of prisons who are helping empower prisoners to seek better conditions — including the right to be paid and to refuse work.

https://texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/

#HumanRights #PrisonersRights #Texas #LaborRights #Unionization #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here's our thread of work from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please read, boost, comment, follow profiles, subscribe, donate money and show your support in any way you can.

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Happy #NewstodonFriday! Here’s our weekly selection of stories from newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. The goal is to amplify their work and help them raise funds, so please follow them, boost posts, subscribe to their sites, donate money, and join in the conversation in the comments.
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⭐️This Week's Featured Voices on Flipboard⭐️
It's not just Mastodon and Threads accounts you can discover on Flipboard — you can also find and follow folks from (to paraphrase the Beatles) across the fediverse! In this week's Community tab, we featured these photography accounts from @pixelfed:

@chris.zielecki
@cyclingtogether
@Iancylkowski
@mmccue
@parisstroke
@Potassium

Follow their accounts in the app to see their photography right alongside content from your favorite publishers. If you miss them in the Community tab, you can always search for their accounts on Flipboard.

Download the Flipboard app to check it out:
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/
#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #Pixelfed #Photography #Fediverse #MastodonMigration

Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective that teaches people how to make low-cost versions of pharmaceuticals — a philosophy they call “right to repair for your body.” @404mediaco’s @jasonkoebler spoke to chief spokesperson Mixæl Swan Laufer about the group’s motivation, technology, and his hopes that they could eventually disband. “Charging astronomical prices to people who are dying is immoral, and Four Thieves seeks to normalize the idea of making some types of medicine yourself,” writes Koebler.

https://www.404media.co/right-to-repair-for-your-body-the-rise-of-diy-pirated-medicine/

#Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Pharmaceuticals #USHealthcare #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Does the animal-rescue system need to be rethought? @damemagazine talk to Carol Mithers, author of “Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America’s Forgotten People and Pets” about the intersection of poverty and pet ownership, and how we can do better for animals and people.

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/09/05/does-animal-rescue-need-rethinking/

#Dogs #Animals #Pets @bookstodon #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

“The word ‘orc’ has been widely used as a synonym for a Russian soldier since Russia launched the full-scale war against Ukraine,” writes Mariana Lastovyria for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive. Here’s her story on the history of “Lord of the Rings” in Russia, from the mid-20th century to today.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/lord-of-the-rings-in-ukraines-war

#Ukraine #Russia #JRRTolkien #LordOfTheRings #Literature @bookstodon #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

We’re baaaaaack! After a hiatus due to vacation, we’re resuming our regular #NewstodonFriday thread. In case you’ve forgotten, its purpose is to highlight the work of newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. Please boost the posts you like, follow the profiles you discover, donate money, comment, and let us know about other newsrooms and journos that we should feature.

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How can poets write about the unspeakable horrors in Palestine? Gabriel Fine writes for @TexasObserver about poetry’s function in wartime as a beacon of moral clarity, and the work of writers including himself, Fady Joudah, Mosab Abu Toha and Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.

https://www.texasobserver.org/palestine-israel-texas-poetry-gaza/

#Palestine #Israel #Poetry #Literature #Culture #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

If you’re on Flipboard, you can now follow Texas Observer over there: https://flipboard.com/@texasobserver.

50 years ago, Boston began to desegregate its schools and bus Black students across the city. This led to two years of protests and riots. @gbhnews reports on another story that played out in the shadows — the busing of Chinese students who had recently arrived in the U.S. from Chinatown to Boston’s North End.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2024-09-05/50-years-ago-chinese-students-were-an-underserved-afterthought-in-bostons-busing-crisis

#History @histodons #Boston #AAPI #Segregation #BlackHistory #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

The movie “It Ends With Us” and the book it was based on have been criticized for glamorizing intimate partner violence. @thetyee’s Jeevan Sangha writes about what the film gets right — and where it needs to do better. “I wonder what it would take for celebrity production teams to learn and act on the work that local organizations specializing in addressing and preventing sexual assault and intimate partner violence do every day,” she writes. “If they could, ‘It Ends with Us’ would be a different film.”

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/09/06/It-Ends-With-Us-Review

#Film #Cinema #Movies #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

For @thexylom, Ellie Rose Mattoon writes about Anatomical Venuses — wax models that were once used to teach female anatomy, and the ongoing issue with gendered images in medicine. “As late as 1986, an analysis of anatomical textbooks showed that 11% of gendered images outside of the chapter detailing the reproductive system were of women. Never mind that women have different skeletons, different manifestations of cardiac disease, and different rates of drug metabolism. The percentage of female images among images that are gendered in anatomy textbooks rose to an average of 32% in a 1994 analysis, then crept to 36% in a 2017 one.”

https://www.thexylom.com/post/this-barbie-is-a-dolled-up-wax-cadaver

#Science #Medicine #Healthcare #Feminism #Sexism #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

This week, we've featured several amazing tech and science voices from the Mastodon community on Flipboard!

In case you missed the news, you can now follow anyone from the fediverse in the Flipboard app. We're excited to introduce our readers to people in the Mastodon community, including @alyssam_infosec, @annaleen, @pomarede, @HelenBranswell, @lisamelton, @percepticon, @parismarx, @TatianaIlyina, @skrishna and @zackwhittaker.

To follow these accounts on Flipboard, download the app and visit the Tech & Science tab in Explore. You'll see posts from the fediverse accounts you follow in the new Fediverse Activity carousel in the For You feed.
https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/

#Tech #Science #Flipboard #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Technology

The IOC is allowing 15 Russian athletes to compete at the Olympic Games under the Individual Neutral Athlete flag. But @timkmak’s Counteroffensive reports that many have expressed support for the war or taken part in propaganda events. Here’s more.

https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/investigation-supposedly-neutral

#Russia #Ukraine #OlympicGames #Olympics #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Sad news this week about @hakaimagazine, which has announced it will shut down at the end of the year. For now, it’s still publishing brilliant science stories, like this beautifully illustrated one on the anatomy of seals.

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-seals-big-hearts-mean-big-dives/

#Science #Seals #MarineBiology #Zoology #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

@ProPublica is doing some of the best investigative journalism in the country. This week, it has an update on one of its education stories. Shrub Oak International School in New York promises personalized assistance for autistic students with complex needs but ProPublica discovered neglect and abuse. As a result of their reporting, some states are now telling their public schools not to send pupils to the private, for-profit boarding school.

https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-international-school-lawsuit-washington-state-autism

#Education #Schools #NewYork #Autism #DisabilityRights #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

It’s #NewstodonFriday, the day to celebrate and highlight newsrooms that are active in the fediverse. What do we want you to do with this thread? Boost the posts you enjoy, follow the publishers’ profiles, and subscribe or donate some money to help them continue their great work. And if there’s a newsroom that’s not on our radar, please share in the comments — or just say hello!

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