Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01379-9

Truly enjoyed this elegant work from Delgoffe lab showing that Tex CD8 T cells display transcriptional and functional similarities with Treg [we see similar things in our data – hopef coming soon]

A short 🧵 👇

Evening view of a temple in the hills #utagawahiroshige #ukiyoe https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/evening-view-of-a-temple-in-the-hills

Optimal Wings for Flying Fruits [research study] https://improbable.com/2023/01/04/optimal-wings-for-flying-fruits/

We partnered with Research!America to survey Americans about their views on brain health and how it affects their lives, as well as their views on brain health research. Read our Executive Overview for key findings from the survey and for steps we and others can take to set priorities to ensure brain research is responsive to societal needs.
https://dana.org/article/brain-health-survey-executive-overview/

#neurosociety #neuroscience #neuroethics #brain #mentalhealth #brainhealth

"The China CDC analysis showed a predominance of #Omicron lineages BA.5.2 and BF.7 among locally acquired infections. ...
No new variant or mutation of known significance is noted in the publicly available sequence data."

Interesting statement by WHO's Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution which met yesterday to discuss the #covid19 situation in #China:

https://www.who.int/news/item/04-01-2023-tag-ve-statement-on-the-3rd-january-meeting-on-the-covid-19-situation-in-china

Louis Braille was born on this day in 1809, to change the world for millions. He was only a child when he invented his tactile language for the blind. His inspiring story, illustrated: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/03/21/six-dots-braille/

A great read to close out the year: radially expanding populations decrease competition as they grow (because of expanding available area or volume), which facilitates the survival of unfit mutants and downstream acquisition of compensatory mutations. This can underlie the evolution of resistance to treatment in bacterial biofilms and solid tumors.

#evolution #amr #cancer

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35484-y

Bohemian Rhapsody for postdocs

Is this a real job?
Or more like a PhD?
Caught in short contracts
No chance of stability

Open your eyes
Look up to PIs and see
I'm just a postdoc
I get no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
Stress is high
Pay is low

#academia #university #postdoc #research #queen #tomwilks

Announcing the 2023

Paris Spring School in Optical imaging and electrophysiological recording in neuroscience

3-16 May, Paris, France

https://parisneuro.ovh

Applications open now, deadline 31. Jan.

Please reboost, with apologies for duplicates.

Isaac Asimov:
"I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have...."

Instead of improving #US #copyright law to match the better terms in #Canada, my country pressured Canada to maim its copyright law to match the worse terms in the US.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-extends-copyright-protection-another-20-years-to-meet-new-trade-obligation-1.6215102

"There will be no new books, songs or plays added to the public domain in Canada until 2043…The change brings Canada into compliance with a commitment it made under the new North American free trade deal to match its copyright protections with those in place in the United States since 1998."