Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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#Introduction Hi everyone, My name is Furkan. I am a last year PhD student at CerCo CNRS, Toulouse France. I am working on neural decoding and visual reconstruction from fMRI signals using deep generative models with Rufin VanRullen at #NeuroAI Lab.
I published one paper at IJCNN this year with title "Reconstruction of Perceived Images from fMRI Patterns and Semantic Brain Exploration using Instance-Conditioned GANs" in case you are interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12692v1
It is a pleasure to be here. I hope we can build a good community here at neuromatch.social
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Truckers threaten Florida boycott over immigration law
https://www.tampabay.com/news/2023/06/25/truckers-threaten-florida-boycott-over-immigration-law/
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Good morning! It's Session 2 of #GRCdevbio23 on Metabolic fluxes in development.
Metabolic and Nutritional Control of Development and Regeneration is also the topic of
@Dev_journal
's next special issue #DevSImetabolism, which is currently being compiled:
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A female ant bag beetle (Clytra laeviuscula), ca. 10 mm.
The larvae of this beetle develop for two years in ant colonies, during which time they eat anything they can find, from waste to ant larvae.
The adult beetles are vegetarian.
#photography #photo #nature #naturephotography #mft #microfourthirds #darktable #macrophotography #macro #nature #naturephotography #animals #wildlife #insects #beetles #chrysomelidae #clytra #clytralaeviuscula #käfer #ameisensackkäfer
'The first popular English-language science books came to India in the mid-20th century. Even today, a majority of popular science books in Indian bookstores or online marketplaces are in English and written by foreign authors. The lack of Indian stories and perspectives is stark. While bestsellers in politics, cultural fiction, entertainment, and sports dominate the Indian market and have won prestigious international awards, compelling literature on Indian science and scientists is rare. It also likely accounts for the limited penetration of any popular book on science.'
I second that emotion. You can know the science, have all the facts, bulletproof reasoning, and Cicero's rhetoric skills: it does not matter. There is no winning an argument with someone like this.
'You can come armed with all the facts in the world, but when you’re dealing with a conspiracist, there’s no real way to “win” an argument.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/rfk-jr-joe-rogan.html
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It’s Not Possible to ‘Win’ an Argument With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“You can come armed with all the facts in the world, but when you’re dealing with a conspiracist, there’s no real way to ‘win’ an argument. For people whose views aren’t anchored to facts, winning is simply getting attention — and when you publicly argue with someone like Kennedy, you’ve already lost.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/rfk-jr-joe-rogan.html
#antivax #antivaxxers #science #News #USNews #Politics #USPolitics #Conspiracy
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Sometimes, Wikipedia comes up trumps - thanks to Slate Weasel for putting together this comparison of some of the largest chelicerates (chelicerates = archnids and their kin) to have lived.
These little (massive) dudes and dudettes are sea scorpions, or eurypterids - probably not closelynot related to living scorpions
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On this day in 1970: Padmanee Sharma born, cancer immunotherapy pioneer #WomenInBiotech http://whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Sharma
Last Thursday, the FDA voted to approve Sarepta's microdystrophin gene therapy for #Duchenne muscular #dystrophy.
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-gene-therapy-treatment-certain-patients-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy
This was not an easy call, made on the basis of a biomarker rather than efficacy data. I wrote about it last month for Nature Medicine.
Yet another study showing that tumor mutation burden is a poor predictor of response to checkpoint blockade.
"First we assembled the largest pan-cancer dataset of immunotherapy patients with sequencing and clinical data. Surprisingly, we find little evidence that TMB is predictive of response to ICB.
(...)
Our analysis shows that the use of TMB in clinical practice is not supported by available data and can deprive patients of treatment to which they are likely to respond."
#Immunology #immunooncology #immunotherapy
'If drama is latently political, politics is inescapably theatrical. The two have oratory and rhetoric in common, and Marx, a regular theatregoer, was keenly interested in both forms of public art.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n13/terry-eagleton/be-like-the-silkworm
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For every #Research Article and #Review article that is published in Journal of Cell Science in 2023 and 2024, a #nativetree is planted in a forest in the UK.
We are also funding the restoration and preservation of #ancientwoodland and dedicating these trees to our peer reviewers.
Find out more in our Editorial: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/6/jcs261084/297138/The-Forest-of-Biologists-for-biologists-for
Explore the #forestofbiologists at https://forest.biologists.com.
@lymphomation I was just trying to tie the threads together :)
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pYtags enable spatiotemporal measurements of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in living cells. https://elifesciences.org/articles/82863?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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New preprint on inter-plasmid competition via type IV-A3 CRISPR systems. Something to think about.
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In 1948, the University of Manchester photographed its groundbreaking Mark I computer for a photocomposite stitched together from 20 separate shots. A newly restored image from the best surviving original materials of each shot reveals a wealth of detail that’s been lost over the years. https://rylandscollections.com/2023/06/21/a-new-view-of-the-manchester-computer/
@lymphomation By making you long for a long lost slipper?
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Starting at 11am ET today! Register now for this free public workshop hosted by @theNASEM Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship. #openscience https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/764_06-2023_promoting-equitable-and-inclusive-implementation-of-open-scholarship-policies-a-workshop
Who grows Europe's fresh fruits & vegetables:
"Most of the laborers I spoke to told me they earn four or five euros an hour, considerably less than the legal minimum wage. They work in the sweltering heat under the greenhouses’ plastic coverings. Sometimes they put in full days, but often they are only needed for a couple of hours, if at all."
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/06/24/the-land-of-dust-and-plastic/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
