Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

There's going to be quite a lot to learn about the interactions between viral infections and susceptibility to Group A strep infections once we get through the current wave in 🇬🇧
#GAS #streptococcus #microbiology #IDMastodon
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00865-9/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#%20

The historic MBL Physiology Course is now accepting applications! If you're interested in learning more about the course and the application process, be sure to join us on Friday, January 13 at 9 AM PT for a virtual open house (https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlc-6gpjgjEt3OkOiHp6MCLgLm1HQiPOX6).

More info about the course is available here: https://www.mbl.edu/education/advanced-research-training-courses/course-offerings/physiology-modern-cell-biology-using-microscopic-biochemical-and-computational-approaches

All 23 of Timothy Snyder’s free lectures on “the Making of Modern Ukraine” are now posted. Millions of people have tuned in — everyone should listen to the whole course (they are also on Spotify).

https://youtu.be/nLfFmYWjHtc

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-making-of-modern-ukraine/id1653131950

#ukraine #podcast #history #yale #timothysnyder #highered #histodons @histodons

Study: #COVID19 vaccines have prevented more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths in the United States
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2022/two-years-covid-vaccines-prevented-millions-deaths-hospitalizations #vaccines #vaccination #publichealth #epidemiology #healthcare

Nice RNA virus paper from earlier this year: Transcriptome Mining Expands Knowledge of RNA Viruses across the Plant Kingdom.

"these data highlight that ... the apparent scarcity of RNA viruses found in lower plants likely reflects a lack of investigation rather than their absence"

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.00260-22

#viruses #virology

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

Here’s one of my favourite artefacts: an ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement.
On display National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen. Read more about amber from submerged settlements: https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-mesolithic-period/magical-amber-animals/amber-from-submerged-settlements/

#Archaeology
#Art

Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.

The great Paulino Vieira, the genius of Cabo Verde music. Here, in an thrilling harp solo (1995, Paris). https://youtu.be/WfUARGzNqY0 via @YouTube

As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.

Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.

Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.

Period.

#IDMastodon #oncologyresearch @Nature @aaas #COVID19 Vaccination protects people with blood cancer & can also activate #Tcells which are responsible particularly for the long-term immune response. #COVID19 booster increases durability of antibody response
📌 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975243
📌 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975047
📌 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43018-022-00502-x
📌 https://www.annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(22)01829-4/fulltext

@gershbrain There's an inspiring paper by @Katejjeffery, Pollack and Rovelli 2019 "On the Statistical Mechanics of Life: Schrödinger Revisited" https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/12/1211 that argues how life, and specifically complex structures, opens up the space of possible variations in the organization of components and therefore more entropy. And that statistically this implies life is entropically favoured.
#entropy #science

Happy to announce that I have been awarded a @snf_ch #StG to study the impact of gut #microbiota on natural antibodies in #IBD patients. Grateful to all reviewers for their positive comments and collaborators who believe in this Project @unibern @inselgruppe @DBMR_UniBe
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How endemic viruses spread, optimised hardware thanks to AI, and equal opportunities put to the test: 62 researchers receive an SNSF Starting Grant 2022. #T…
https://twitter.com/snsf_ch/status/1593235778523435016