Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Timely and thought-provoking. Biased regional proclivities are more rampant in academia, especially at the medical university setting, than in the local culture, in my experience. But u only know from my city
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RT @hristio
Why is there so little data on racial and ethnic diversity in German academia? My feature for @nature tries to give and answers and portrays people advocating for better data. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-02…
https://twitter.com/hristio/status/1643546834600615938

"I am now a full-time writer with a roster filled with happy clients, something I would have never thought possible pre-diagnosis. Being dyslexic does not stop your writing from being clever, creative or engaging. I hope this account encourages everyone to embrace their love for words because dyslexic or not, your story is worth telling."

https://elifesciences.org/articles/87444

Preconditioning T cells

"In the present study, we addressed the requirements for CD4+CD25+ T cells (Tregs) and naïve T cells to undergo proliferative responses to cytokine stimulation, segregated from TCR signals."

#immunology

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217562120

EMBO is looking for a policy officer "to develop and implement activities on research integrity and good scientific practice, research assessment, #openscience, career structures, and the composition of the research workforce."
Deadline: 12 April 2023
#ScienceJobs

https://t.co/jQBLDe54NF

"Whether perturbations of any of these endosome-related processes can give rise to TLR7 gain-of-function and facilitate self-reactivity has not been investigated. Here, we show that a dysregulated endosomal compartment leads to unrestricted TLR7 signaling and human lupus."

#Preprint #Immunology #InnateImmunity #Lupus #TollLikeReceptor

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.535356v1

Join our team! We're looking for someone who can bring experience in higher ed, journalism and relationship management to our team - and help us in our mission of unlocking the knowledge of university academics for the public.

https://inn.org/job/the-conversation-u-s-8-university-relationship-manager/

#JournalismJobs #MediaJobs #Jobs #HigherEd

Anyone know of a good place where I can send samples for thin section TEM? I have cells and I want to visualize viruses inside. I would need both sample prep and imaging.

Registrations are open to the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics course "Introduction to Machine Learning with #Python", 📢streamed 🧑‍💻, on 5, 12, 19, 26 June 2023, 14:00-17:30 CET. #Bioinformatics for #DataScience #lifesciences #Training in #MachineLearning #AI. More info: https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20230605_INMLP

Issue 6 has closed and issue 7 is open

The front cover by Emmanuel de Margerie shows a common swift approaching a water surface to drink on the wing. Geoffrey Ruauz & co show that the birds actively reduce their flight speed immediately before touching the water, prioritizing safety over saving energy when skimming the water's surface

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/6

#SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk: "A series of changes at Twitter has laid bare what the service has become under Elon Musk: a place where speech is anything but free.

What's happening: From its shift to pay-for-play to impulsive policy changes made by Musk, the site more resembles an intrigue-filled palace than the town square that Musk says he seeks to protect.

Driving the news: Three recent developments reveal, in sharp contrast, just how much Twitter has changed in the five months Musk has owned the company."

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/03/elon-musks-twitter-free-speech-checkmarks-ranking

JOB POSTING: Director of Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Michigan State University https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178343728 #HigherEd

The Chinese CDC analyses of the Market samples: finally published in Nature.

And now the sequences can be analysed by others....let's see whether this agrees to the presence of pandas at the Market...

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market | Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06043-2

#covidorigins #SarsCoV2 #virology #covid

Check out our new #BehindThePaper blog post from @PEARG_Lab discussing their new #PLOSBiology paper on male-killing symbiotic bacteria in flies
Paper: https://plos.io/3TEicQe
Primer: https://plos.io/3ziNMtx
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/