Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Using army ants for viral surveillance - pretty cool!

"African army ants at the forefront of virome surveillance in a remote tropical forest"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.13.520061v1

#viruses #ants #virome #metagenomics

Hi all, I'm new here, so here's an #introduction.

I'm an impact AI entrepreneur who's worked with algorithmic influence for more than a decade.

A while back, when I was running a social games startup, I realized the dangers of addicting people to games with behavioral algorithms. And then Netflix, Spotify and TikTok happened.

Ever since I've worked on algorithms for positive impact, now building healthier social with https://equelsocial.com

I look forward to contributing to the #fediverse!

Kurt Vonnegut on buying envelopes:

Want to know some of the work that #Globalfund supports for #TB? The latest quarterly update is out and includes updates on case finding activities from Nigeria and Viet Nam. Read to find out more about how Nigeria increased their TB case detection by 50% from 138,591 in 2020 to 207,785 TB cases in 2021 - really impressive work! https://bit.ly/3EzhY5Q

Excited that our Connectomic DBS for Alzheimer's Disease is online at @NatureComms since today!

Paper here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34510-3

Tweet summary (based on the preprint) here:
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RT @ChariteBerlin
Could brain stimulation help treat #Alzheimers disease? A research team at #CharitéBerlin has discovered a brain network that improves symptoms when stimulated. The study in @NatureComms paves the way for furth…
https://twitter.com/ChariteBerlin/status/1603012621128851457

OK all #Mastodon and #Fediverse politicos, a quick mention for an amazing documentary about Scottish workers and how they stood in solidarity with the people of Chile in the immediate aftermath of the Pinochet coup. Watch it - it's f**king fantastic.
✊ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇨🇱

https://naepasaran.com/

#WorldPolitics #Chile #Politics #Solidarity #UKPolitics #Strikes #CollectiveAction #film #documentary #Scotland #FilmRecommendations #movies #Dictationrship #HumanRights

Hearing talk of an 'evolutionary ceiling' for SARS-CoV-2 again, so a timely reminder of the point at which we just had Alpha, Beta and Gamma, and the argument was made that they were proof that there is a single fitness peak that lineages would climb to and that would be the end.

Creating loss-of-function mutations with cytidine base editors (CBE). Our new preprint is online. Work of the incredible Roman Doll (part! of his master thesis).

#CRISPR #geneediting #baseediting #Drosophila #CFDbaseedit

We set up a very efficient system to install premature stop codons or disrupt splice sites in Drosophila and made some interesting discoveries along the way. Will unpack these in separate threads in the coming days. For now here is the manuscript:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.13.520203v1

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Please share to get the word out!
@queerornithology folks this may be great for you!

Avoid quick online access to medications -- or very personal medical info may be handed to places such as Facebook.
A joint investigation by #STAT and The Markup of 50 direct-to-consumer telehealth companies found that online access to medications often means sensitive medical information they collect is handed to the world’s largest advertising platforms.
Questions like Are you in danger of harming yourself or others? If not, what’s your current opioid and alcohol use?
#STATnews #telehealth #privacy
@Pathealth @HelenBranswell https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/13/telehealth-facebook-google-tracking-health-data/

📢Registration for Biology 23, the largest conference of organismic #biology in Switzerland, is now officially open!
📍Sciences II @unige_en

📆Feb. 16-17
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 23
👉More info: https://biology23.unige.ch

Geometry in nature. ⚙️⚙️⚙️

50 papers by Didier Raoult have been flagged with expressions of concern by PLOS. in an ongoing investigation into >100 articles.

Seems to be the latest in a series of accusations relating to data integrity, conflicts of interest, and other ethical issues.

Feels like wherever you see the word hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, dodgy data is not far away... https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/13/plos-flags-nearly-50-papers-by-controversial-french-covid-researcher-for-ethics-concerns/

Let's do it - an #introduction I am a #PhD student in #PopulationGenomics working on #oaks. I am enjoying my path from #MountainForestry to #Genomics because it allows me to dig deeper into life and evolution of trees ❤️ I love #bioinformatics even though I still feel like a total #newbe. Currently at #UniversityGöttingen

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale.

Credit: @Physicsj

David Baker will be giving a talk titled "The coming of age of de novo protein design" at the NIH tomorrow (Dec. 14th) @ 2pm, tune in live! https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=46050

Setting (and teaching) the right example at the right time: #PeerReview classes at undergraduate level lead to increased scientific literacy and a heightened sense of belonging to the biological #community.

#preLighters Kanika Khanna, Giuliana Clemente, @JACoates & Reinier Prosee highlight an important #preprint from Dr Lijek and team showing that #PeerReview classes at undergraduate level (#MtHolyoke) lead to increased scientific literacy & sense of belonging in STEM.

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/preprint-peer-review-enhances-undergraduate-biology-students-disciplinary-literacy-and-sense-of-belonging-in-stem/