Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
The latest episode of the #EMBOPodcast is out today.
I spoke with Roberto di Lauro who's had a fascinating career at the NCI during the golden age of molecular biology there, in Naples - both at Federico II & running one of biology's mythical places, the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and even served some time in the diplomatic core.
This was a fun talk about science, #SciencePolicy, #HistoryOfScience, #MolecularBiology, science in Italy and much more.
https://www.embo.org/podcasts/we-should-know-more-this-is-our-main-job/
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New here, so time for #introductions. All my early training was in biophysics/biochemistry, but for postdoc I switched it up and started studying the ubiquitous #parasite Toxoplasma gondii. My lab at Univ. of TX Southwestern combines everything from genetics to cell biology to structural biology and biochemistry to figure out how the parasite ticks. Another #twitterMigration, @reeselab1 over there. Excited to move to a community-based FOSS alternative!
"The controlled expression of one cellular feature -- the cilium -- was likely critical during early animal evolution. Two key transcription factors, RFX and FoxJ1, coordinate ciliogenesis in animals but are absent from the genomes of most other ciliated eukaryotes, raising the question of how the transcriptional regulation of ciliogenesis has evolved."
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Hey! My name is Kat and I am an #epidemiologist from University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health #UIC. When I am not working/teaching, I make videos about #epidemiology for laypeople and post them on #tiktok and #instagram. My interests are: #infectiousdisease, #misinformation #sciencecommunication and #cancer . I’m also a big nerd 🤓, so I like programming / data / biostats and research methods. I have two cats 😸😸, I roller skate 🛼, and own 5 vintage #vespa scooters 🛵 @epiverse
“On the one hand, we were told to relax the overly strict Covid prevention rules. On the other hand, we could still get fired for not stamping out cases on time,” said a community official in Zhengding, a county under Shijiazhuang. “Our policy goals conflict with each other.”
https://www.ft.com/content/107763ed-8977-4999-829d-839b1928eb8f
"By 2014, when the B.J.P. first won national elections, driven in no small part by its innovative use of social media to tap into middle-class discontent with the status quo, Indian Twitter was well on its way to becoming one of the world’s most vitriolic online spaces, filled with ad hominem attacks and incitements to violence. And having used social media so adroitly to win power, the new government realized that controlling platforms like Twitter would be crucial to suppressing dissent.
Into this stew steps Elon Musk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-india.html
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Apply now! For a fully funded @BBSRCWhiteRose@twitter.com PhD supervised by Dr Lianne Willems and me starting 2023. An opportunity to learn novel chemical biology approaches to investigate breast cancer.
More details & application form https://www.findaphd.com/?pj=149533
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It's fantastic to connect with a lot of new people on #Mastodon, and so I think it's a great opportunity to highlight the #dataViz #protocols that I've been working on. The purpose of this resource is to lower the barrier for people in life sciences to start using R/ggplot2 for #dataViz.
Link:
https://joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-protocols/
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#VeniceEvoDevo 2023 is happening!
Info & registration at the course website below.
Registration deadline is
March 31, 2023.
Join us as we speculate about the future of evo-devo with a fantastic panel of teachers & an innovative teaching format.
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VENICE SUMMER SCHOOL 2023
The future of evo-devo
Aug 21-25, 2023
Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice
The course website is now online, and registration…
https://twitter.com/VeniceEvoDevo/status/1592437106567151616
@MarkHanson Have you read it, Mark?
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RT @BrunoLemaitre3@twitter.com
Très heureux de présenter mon nouveau livre ‘Michael Polanyi, le scientifique qui voulait réenchanter le monde' publié par #EPFL Press. Sa #philosophie bouleverse notre vision de la science, en reconnaissant la primauté de la croyance et de l'engagement.
https://www.epflpress.org/product/1406/9782889155026/michael-polanyi
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrunoLemaitre3/status/1592437297555079168
"The deepest power is that of determining what people consider normal. If you can persuade others that your way of doing things is normal, you have won. At the moment, many mature democracies are experiencing the normalisation of the anti-liberal far right. It’s vital to keep insisting that their norms are no part of an acceptable normality."
Timothy Garton-Ash at the FT
https://www.ft.com/content/02433224-248b-4dc5-b881-95a5d205e8e8
"In the hippocampus, the activation of microglia was associated with inhibited neurogenesis, which could explain impaired memory formation in patients. The activation of microglia appeared to be mediated by persistently elevated levels of a molecule called C-C motif chemokine 11 (CCL11). CCL11 has been associated with aging and with inhibition of neurogenesis."
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2210069?query=featured_home
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In 2007 Ljubljana's mayor moved to make the city center car-free.
Since then:
- Driving share of city trips ⬇️ from 58% to 39%
- Walking share of trips ⬆️ from 19% to 35%
- Air pollution ⬇️ 70%
Now 97% of residents want city center to remain car-free
https://www.bigissue.com/news/environment/people-protested-when-this-capital-city-went-car-free-now-they-love-it/
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"Must-read" for the ones who are working for #BetterScience. I'd like to challenge "Optimism: ECRs may have a yet unchallenged idealism about the scientific enterprise, motivating their reform efforts." I see many idealistic "Late Career Researchers" 😉
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Delighted to see our Consensus View on "Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice" published in @PLOSBiolog…
https://twitter.com/T_Weissgerber/status/1545369023252144128
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Looking for a #PhD? #UCL is offering 40 #scholarships for fully funded PhD positions across all disciplines, available to people from any country. Deadline Jan 13th https://www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/research-excellence-scholarship
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Interesting read on wired. "The secret microscope that sparked a scientific revolution" an account of the early steps in #microscopy (Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek)
https://www.wired.com/story/secret-microscope-sparked-scientific-revolution/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=wired
Meanwhile, on the other site
"Elon Musk diz que quer rever suspensão de bolsonaristas no Tw*tter"
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#womeninscience
Women scientists maybe you thought were men
Maud Menten (Michaelis–Menten equation)
Yvonne Barr (Epstein-Barr virus)
Marilyn Kozak (Kozak consensus sequence)
Tsuneko Okazaki (Okazaki fragments - with her husband Reiji)
Helen Quinn (Peccei–Quinn theory)
Phyllis Nicolson (Crank–Nicolson method)
Hilde Mangold (Spemann-Mangold organizer)
Laura P. Bautz (Bautz–Morgan classification )
Katharine B. Blodgett (Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film)
Martha Chase (Hershey–Chase experiments)
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Where did the domestic cat from?
Here an update from the "Five thousand years of history of domestic cat in Central Europe: interdisciplinary study of paleogenetics and archaeozoology" project.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
