Friends, it's a new academic year, and I come with news for those of you interested in #PoliticalEconomy, the development of the #UnitedStates (political and economic), and the US in a #comparative framework.

Noam Maggor, Sofia Valeonti, Ariel Ron and I are launching a new website: https://www.politicaleconomylab.org/

It's a companion to our scholarly discussions on all of the above, and to our monthly Zoom seminar (and after our Paris conference of last May).

Come check it out!

#histodons #econhist

Alphaxalone may be solubilized in a sulfobutyl-cyclodextrin with potency comparable to both propofol and the historical Cremophor EL preparation, but with a better safety margin than either.
- Goodchild 2015 Anesth.Analg. #comparative
→ metajournal.com/25517195

If you are at #SEBconference and would like to have more information about this #globalsouth Workshop on #comparative #physiology, please stop by stand 13/15. There are still funded spaces available for #ECRs - application deadline 14 July. https://biologists.com/workshops/global_south_2024/

#comparative : proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison

- French: comparatif

- German: vergleichend

- Italian: comparativo

- Portuguese: comparativo

- Spanish: comparativo

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In her #JEB100 Conversation, Katie Gilmour tells us how she first encountered the JEB Editorial team as a graduate student at the Univ of Cambridge, UK, and how she would like to have a Star Trek tricorder to monitor fish in the field non-invasively

#science #zoology #biology #comparative physiology #research #publishing

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/11/jeb245985/310833

Minor airway trauma is common even after short-duration elective endotracheal intubation.
- Avrahami 1995 EurJRadiol #comparative
→ metajournal.com/7556259

Julie Jung reports on Rice & co's recent BioRxiv paper, showing that gadusol deposited by zebrafish mothers in their eggs provides their youngsters with protection from the sun's UV radiation

#science #zoology #biology #comparative physiology #OutsideJEB

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/7/JEB244998/306229

In their #JEB100 Review, Amanda McGrosky & Herman Ponzer consider the history of energy expenditure research and highlight work on daily energy expenditure in primates, focusing specifically on measures of total energy expenditure
#science #biology #comparative physiology #energy

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/5/jeb245272/297166

The Future of AI: GPT-3 vs GPT-4: A Comparative Analysis | by Mohd Saqib | Jan, 2023 https://triangleagency.co.uk/the-future-of-ai-gpt-3-vs-gpt-4-a-comparative-analysis-by-mohd-saqib-jan-2023/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheTriangleAgencyNews #Analysis #Comparative #future

Happened across this book. Looks cool, but how can it be "a #comparative study of #breath and #breathing as a core #poetic and compositional principle in modern #literature" if it doesn't discuss #qi #氣 (vital breath)?

Qi, and breathing more generally, are crucial concepts in #Chinese and #EastAsian #poetics over 2 millennia.
Books like this should be renamed "A Poetics of Breathing in 20th-century American, British, and German Literature."

https://sunypress.edu/Books/P/Poetics-of-Breathing2

#comparative : proceeding from, or by the method of, comparison

- French: comparatif

- German: vergleichend

- Italian: comparativo

- Portuguese: comparativo

- Spanish: comparativo

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Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

In their #JEB100 Commentary, Veronica Rivi and colleagues discuss the importance of invertebrates for studying the conserved molecular and neuronal mechanisms of neuroplasticity in learning and memory, as well as the role of invertebrates in elucidating the effect of stress, drugs and bioactive compounds on memory formation
#invertebrates #comparative physiology #memory #neuroethology #science

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/3/jeb244844/286732

New article from Arabic for Nerds:

"الصَّلاةُ خَيْرٌ مِن الْنَّوْمِ: “Prayer is better than sleep” – Is it really “better”?"

The Islamic call to prayer is a tricky construction. In Sunni Islam, the muezzin uses khayr (خير) which strangely denotes a comparative (better). Why?

Read more: https://arabic-for-nerds.com/prayer-is-better-than-sleep/

#adjective #comparative #elative #evil #I-verb #Islamicphrases #Muezzin #pattern #SunniIslam #superlative #أَفْعَل #اسمالتفضيل #تنوين #خير #صرف #نحو

Andrew Saintsing reports on Sackville & co's recent Nature paper showing that breathing through gills seems to be a large fish adaptation, but balancing the electrolytes in the body may have evolved first
#evolution #science #comparative physiology #fish

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/3/JEB244993/286809

Fantastic opportunity for postgraduate researchers working on #comparative themes!

Treatment from female surgeons is associated with a lower 30 day mortality than the same from male surgeons.
- Wallis 2017 BMJ #comparative
→ http://metajournal.com/29018008

#CFP: The US Developmental State in #Comparative Perspective

Dear all: we are putting together a #conference in Paris on May 25-26 to explore the US developmental #state, and use insights from historiographies on other regions of the world to rethink the role of the state in American #capitalism. If you're interested in exchanging on this, please do consider this call for papers:

https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/upload/UPEL%20CfP.pdf

Abstracts (around 500 words) are due January 17, 2023.

#histodons #histecon

#CFP: The US Developmental State in #Comparative Perspective

Dear all: we are putting together a #conference in Paris on May 25-26 to explore the US developmental #state, and use insights from historiographies on other regions of the world to rethink the role of the state in American #capitalism. If you're interested in exchanging on this, please do consider this call for papers:

https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/upload/UPEL%20CfP.pdf

Abstracts (around 500 words) are due January 17, 2023.

#histodons #histecon

Quick reminder that #Politics at #Liverpool are advertising for a Chair and Head of Department (closing date Jan 6th). Details here! It is a 65-year old dynamic department with a wide range of expertise including #BritishPolitics, #Comparative Politics, #InternationalRelations, amongst others. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUX943/chair-and-head-of-department-of-politics @politicalscience

#CFP: The US Developmental State in #Comparative Perspective

Dear all: we are putting together a #conference in Paris on May 25-26 to explore the US developmental #state, and use insights from historiographies on other regions of the world to rethink the role of the state in American #capitalism. If you're interested in exchanging on this, please do consider this call for papers:

https://www.aup.edu/sites/default/files/upload/UPEL%20CfP.pdf

Abstracts (around 500 words) are due January 17, 2023.