Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.

Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.

Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.

https://post.news/article/2J7VEapSIpNWsrC0EawD8CopYqo

Genomic reconstruction of the astounding evolutionary changes that led to a drastic shift in global distribution (and therefore exposure risk) of avian influenza subtype H5 viruses in the past few years https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.18.520670v1.full.pdf

We - led by Maria Duenas
- wrote a nice review with colleagues from GSK and Boehringer on the use of #massspec in #drugdiscovery in
@EmboMolMed

have a read!

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202114850

#Introduction: I am an Associate Professor at UNC Charlotte studying the connection between #protein folding and disease.

When proteins are made in the cell, they come out as a string of amino acids. To function in the cell, this string needs to fold into a complex 3D shape. Many of our proteins need help to fold correctly. This is where molecular #chaperones come in. These proteins work as custodians of the cell by folding proteins. We work on the Hsp70 chaperone in yeast and cancer cells.

ok #introduction I'm an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist studying how social interactions lead to biodiversity. I'm big on social selection, polymorphism, color, genetics and teaching/course development (queer bio woo!).

My main study organisms are hummingbirds, especially white-necked jacobins (Florisuga mellivora), which have female polymorphism -- 20% females look like males, while the rest look different. I love them 💓

🎨 📸 :Jillian Ditner & Irene Mendez Cruz

Hello! I am a #scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital who studies mechanisms of intercellular communication. My lab is particularly interested in how Sonic #hedgehog signals are sent, received, and interpreted during #development. We are working to improve imaging techniques to visualize SHH signal transport through #cytonemes. We also have projects focused on #Cilia and GLI #transcription factors. Posting about the #lab , #mentoring , and the occasional hedgehog joke 🦔

Excited for an #introduction 👋!

📝 We are Penn NeuroKnow, a #neuroscience blog run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group.

👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 Our goal is to share our love of neuroscience with you all. Each post breaks down a different topic in neuroscience, ranging from general neuroscience knowledge to summaries of exciting new studies that are changing how we think about the brain.

🧠 Recent topics have included why we get the hiccups, how the octopus controls its arms, and how neuroscientists are starting to realize that what they thought was noise might not actually be so noisy.

⏰ We’ll be sharing links to our latest posts with short summaries every Tuesday when they go live. We’re looking forward to sharing our posts and engaging with the community here!

https://pennneuroknow.com/

#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent

Hi #introduction:

In my lab we study the structure and function of neuronal circuits underlying information processing and cognition using light, electrons and X-rays. #DynamicalConnectomics

#Introduction Hi all, I’m a developmental neurobiologist running a lab that uses brain #organoids to uncover mechanisms that make the human brain special. Follow me for interesting papers in this sphere, updates on our research, and fun science things I find along the way!

RORγt-lineage APCs: The Aire apparent

"Recent studies shed light on new populations and potential roles of Aire+ and RORγt+ antigen-presenting cells— including unique subsets with surprising properties—in immune homeostasis and host-microbe interactions...

the precise function, nomenclature, lineage, and inter relationship among these populations remain open for exploration and debate—making this a uniquely exciting time for this biology." #Immunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade9240

Open position for Master thesis in immunology in Vienna, Austria -thanks for RT
#immunology #infection #immunometabolism #microbiome #neuroscience

Exciting cross-disciplinary 1y Master project available in the Bergthaler Lab at @MedUni_Wien. More details can be found here http://www.bergthalerlab.com

#introduction

I am a postdoc at Stanford using #synbio to engineer collaborations between #Tcells and #bacteria to fight #cancer.

Looking forward to (re)connect with with vibrant #science #immunology 🔬 #synbio 🧬 community!

New #cancer study from LJI's Schoenberger Lab:

"Tumor cells fail to present MHC-II restricted epitopes derived from oncogenes to CD4+ T cells" https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/165570

#OpenAccess in in LJI Insight. #immunology #ImmuneSystem #TCells #Oncology #CancerImmunotherapy #CancerResearch

#introduction.
Hi Mastodon in general and #histadons in particular - I teach classes (a lot of them!) in bioethics, history or medicine, and health humanities. I wrote a history of #Alzheimers in the United States, and am working (very slowly, alas) on a broader history of #dementia.

Lots of other interests - some grappling with our generally dire circumstances, but some of them actually fun, like cycling and board games.

I live and work in Philly.

Hello, everyone! Ani here. I trained as a microbiologist. In the lab I worked on methanogens, genetic code expansion, and inserting unnatural amino acids into proteins.

I’ve spent the past 15 years helping scientists grow communities and journals at professional societies. But I still have a hard time explaining just what it is that I do (there are some links in my bio that might help). My posts may be unrelated to my work too. 😆

#introduction #microbiology #science #synbio #chemistry

Fascinating and sobering research exploring the global distribution and diversity of #antibioticresistance genes across 101 countries via sequencing of DNA from #sewage samples

#microbiology #microbiomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34312-7

Dear people interested in #organoids #Tcells #Macrophages #Bcells #DendriticCells #MucosalImmunology #microbiome #OrganOnChip #MicroPhysiologicalSystems #IBD #CeliacDisease #iPSCs,

where are you? I want to follow you!

Best regards,
Me

What do we call ourselves over here? #EpiMastodon? #EpiTooters?

The 10 biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen by scientists https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/18/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2022-chosen-by-scientists

@cyrilpedia there is some dark humour to be had in the fact that one of the most influential contributers to understanding a disease about memory loss was forgotten for decades.