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Les antibiotiques polluent désormais les rivières du monde entier
▻https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/energie-environnement/les-antibiotiques-polluent-les-rivieres-du-monde-entier-818590.html

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Quatorze antibiotiques ont été retrouvés dans les rivières de 72 pays, d’après une étude britannique inédite révélée lundi 27 mai. Les concentrations d’antibiotiques trouvés dépassent jusqu’à 300 fois les niveaux « acceptables ». Un risque majeur puisque ce phénomène accentue le phénomène de résistance aux antibiotiques qui deviennent moins efficaces pour traiter certains symptômes.

Aucune n’est épargnée. Une étude présentée lundi 27 mai révèle que, de l’Europe à l’Asie en passant par l’Afrique, les concentrations d’antibiotiques relevées dans certaines rivières du monde dépassent largement les niveaux acceptables. La nouveauté de cette étude résulte du fait qu’il s’agit désormais d’un « problème mondial » car si, autrefois, les niveaux tolérés étaient le plus souvent dépassés en Asie et en Afrique - les sites les plus problématiques se trouvent au Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Pakistan et Nigeria - l’Europe et l’Amérique ne sont plus en reste, note le communiqué de l’équipe de chercheurs de l’université britannique de York responsable de l’étude.

Les scientifiques ont ainsi analysé des prélèvements effectués sur 711 sites dans 72 pays sur six continents et ont détecté au moins un des 14 antibiotiques recherchés dans 65% des échantillons. Les chercheurs, qui présentaient leurs recherches lundi à un congrès à Helsinki, ont comparé ces prélèvements aux niveaux acceptables établis par le groupement d’industries pharmaceutiques AMR Industry Alliance, qui varient selon la substance.

Résultat, le métronidazole, utilisé contre les infections de la peau et de la bouche, est l’antibiotique qui dépasse le plus ce niveau acceptable, avec des concentrations allant jusqu’à 300 fois ce seuil sur un site au Bangladesh. Le niveau est également dépassé dans la Tamise. La ciprofloxacine est de son côté la substance qui dépasse le plus souvent le seuil de sûreté acceptable (sur 51 sites), tandis que le triméthoprime, utilisé dans le traitement des infections urinaires, est le plus fréquemment retrouvé.

The Woman With Lapis Lazuli in Her Teeth - The Atlantic
▻https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/the-woman-with-lapis-lazuli-in-her-teeth/579760

Who was that person? A woman, first of all. According to radiocarbon dating, she lived around 997 to 1162, and she was buried at a women’s monastery in Dalheim, Germany. And so these embedded blue particles in her teeth illuminate a forgotten history of medieval manuscripts: Not just monks made them. In the medieval ages, nuns also produced the famously laborious and beautiful books. And some of these women must have been very good, if they were using pigment as precious and rare as ultramarine.

(...) art experts were still skeptical. Some dismissed the idea that a woman could have been a painter skilled enough to work with ultramarine. One suggested to Warinner that this woman came into contact with ultramarine because she was simply the cleaning lady.

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#archéologie #femmes #nonnes_copistes #historicisation via @arnicas

Students with lower A Levels from poorly performing schools do just as well on medical degrees - News and events, The University of York
▻https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/research/students-with-lower-a-levels-do-just-as-well

Particulièrement intéressant en ces temps de #sélection en #France,

The research also found that students from poorly performing schools who match the top A Level grades achieved by pupils from the best performing schools, go on to do better during a medical degree.

The authors of the research are now calling for medical school entry criteria to be relaxed for all pupils applying from low-performing schools.

L’étude du BMJ
▻http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/5/e020291

#études

Pourquoi des sourcils expressifs ont pu avoir de l’importance dans l’évolution humaine.

Why expressive brows might have mattered in human evolution - News and events, The University of York 09/04/2018

Comme les bois sur un cerf, un front prononcé était un signal permanent de domination et d’agressivité chez nos ancêtres. Les humains modernes l’ont échangé pour un front lisse avec des sourcils plus visibles et poilus capables d’une plus grande gamme de mouvement.

À l’aide d’un logiciel d’ingénierie 3D, les chercheurs ont examiné l’arête frontale emblématique d’un crâne fossilisé, connu sous le nom de Kabwe 1, conservé dans les collections du Natural History Museum.

L’auteur principal du document, le Dr Ricardo Godinho, a déclaré, après avoir écarté par essais sur le crane modélisé en 3D que, "puisque la forme de l’arrête frontale [n’était] pas uniquement dictée par les exigences spatiales et mécaniques, et que d’autres explications sur les arrêtes des sourcils comme la sueur ou les cheveux [avait] déjà été écartées, nous suggérons une explication plausible dans la communication sociale "

Selon les chercheurs, nos fronts communicatifs ont commencé comme un effet secondaire de nos visages devenant progressivement plus petit au cours des 100 000 dernières années. Ce processus est devenu particulièrement rapide au cours des 20 000 dernières années et, plus récemment, au moment où nous sommes passés de chasseurs-cueilleurs à agriculteurs.

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▻https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/research/research-to-raise-a-few-eyebrows

#Préhistoire #évolution #Ricardo_Godinho #Université_de_York #Penny_Spikins

ESL partners with University of York to develop #eSports talent
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-27-esl-partners-with-university-of-york-to-develop-esports-ta

Collaboration will involve teaching, research into eSports innovations and career development for students

The #Mediterranean_Missing_Project

The Mediterranean Missing project is a 1 year ESRC-funded research project and a collaboration between the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, The International Organisation for Migration, and City University, London. The project seeks to collect data and explore current responses to migrant bodies in the Mediterranean, and the impacts of a missing relative on families left behind. In 2015, over 3,770 refugees and migrants are known to have died at sea while trying to reach Europe. The majority of these people are not identified, and in such cases a family is left in a state of ambiguous loss, unable to fully grieve for their loved one. This project aims to shed light on the policy vacuum at EU and national levels o this issue, through investigating law, policy and practice in Italy and Greece regarding the investigation, identification, burial and repatriation of migrant bodies. Research with families from Syria, Iraq and Tunisia aims to better understand the impacts of missing persons on their families.

▻https://espminetwork.com/2016/07/06/the-mediterranean-missing-project

Le site internet de la recherche:
▻http://www.mediterraneanmissing.eu
#asile #migrations #réfugiés #mourir_en_mer #Méditerranée #ceux_qui_restent #cadavres #corps #morts_en_Méditerranée #celleux_qui_restent

Foreign Policy Centre: Publications / Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy

▻http://fpc.org.uk/publications/eudemocratic

Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy
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Adam Hug (Ed.)

June 2016

Download Europe and the people (2.15 megabyte PDF)

Europe and the people: Examining the EU’s democratic legitimacy examines the concerns across Europe around the democratic legitimacy of EU institutions and the European project as whole. It looks at how the debate about EU democratic legitimacy fits within the broader context of a crisis of institutions at both the national and global levels, particularly in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis. The publication explores the mechanisms through which EU institutions seek to gain democratic legitimacy and how they try to engage the public, comparing and contrasting with other organisations at the national and international levels. It places the debate around European democratic legitimacy within the context of the UK referendum on EU membership, as well as the fallout from the Greek debt crisis. It sets out ideas for potential improvements in how the EU operates to increase its democratic legitimacy and accountability but recognises that some of the challenges will persist irrespective of efforts to reform.

This publication contains contributions from: Dr Jim Buller, University of York; Professor Damian Chalmers, LSE; Oli Henman, Civicus; Dr Victoria Honeyman, University of Leeds; Adam Hug (ed.), Foreign Policy Centre; Professor James Mitchell, University of Edinburgh; Dr Marina Prentoulis, UEA; Adriaan Schout and Hedwich van der Bij, Clingendael; and Dr Matthew Wood, University of Sheffield.This publication is supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK Call for Proposals for civil society organisations 2015-16.

#europe

Mapping the world’s linguistic diversity—scientists discover links between your genes and the language you speak

▻http://phys.org/news/2015-07-world-linguistic-diversityscientists-links-genes.html

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Academics at the University of York have discovered a correlation between genetic and linguistic diversity and concluded that at least in Europe people who speak different languages are also more likely to have a different genetic make-up.

The study, led by Professor Giuseppe Longobardi in York’s Department of Language and Linguistic Science, in collaboration with geneticists and linguists at the Universities of Ferrara and Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy, has discovered that language proves a better predictor of genetic differences than the geographical distribution of population.

#cartographie #langues #languages

Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual
The Integrity Project | Investigating the value of integrity, and the price of doing without it.

▻http://projectintegrity.wordpress.com

Tiens voilà un truc très “seenthis”, un débat intéressant , utile et urgent en France :) :

Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual
9th—10th July 2013
University of York

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The Integrity Project (www.projectintegrity.wordpress.com) is collaborating with the board of studies for academic practice to organise a series of events on the theme Intellectual Integrity? How to be a public intellectual.

These events explore the different ways in which the role of public intellectual can be enacted, both inside and outside the academy, and the different pressures, compromises, and opportunities that one aspiring to that role can expect to face. We will ask: what is it to be a public- intellectual, and can one step into the role without compromising one’s integrity?

Intellectual Integrity? is a chance for new and established academics, public figures, post-grads, students, and York residents to think about and discuss the risks and rewards of stepping outside the university or engaging in academic life as a public intellectual.

The Integrity Project explores the psychological, social, institutional and political preconditions for acting and speaking with integrity; those which undermine the possibility of maintaining integrity; and the consequences on individuals and societies of widespread failures integrity. Addressing this brings together social anthropologists and sociologists; philosophers and political and cultural theorists; and historians and scholars of literature and the arts. It also involves people actually living and working in circumstances which compromise or enable their acting with integrity, interested in changing or extending those practical circumstances, and reflecting on the benefits and risks of so doing

#géographie_critique #intégrité #intellectuel

#BDS : British students reject twinning with Israel University.
►http://youthanormalization.blogspot.com/2011/12/bds-british-students-reject-twinning_09.html

"Student leaders pointed out that the relatively high turnout of voters reflected the importance of the issue to the students.

Students at Britain’s University of York have rejected a proposal to twin the institution with the Hebrew University in occupied Jerusalem. The vote on the issue was carried out by York University’s Student Union.

Le plus cocasse est que la proposition de jumelage avec une université israélienne avait pour vocation à lutter contre… l’antisémitisme :

According to newspaper reports, York student Jacob Campbell proposed the twinning agreement in order to defend Israel and curb what he described as “anti-Semitic” activities in British universities.

Comme quoi personne n’est dupe.