Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

New posting! This one is about the number of unpaid hours in #academia, an insight that's come from the realisation of how much time I'm still committing despite now (currently) being unemployed. To what extent is academic research sustained by the massive expenditure of unpaid labour? How much unpaid overtime do you think you're clocking? Let's lift the lid...

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/06/29/pro-bono-a-riff-on-unpaid-labour-in-academia/

#GRCdevbio23: @Wilcocksonscott from the Hill at @thecrick discusses the role of signalling in mesendoderm.

The Hill lab is broadly interested in TGFβ signalling, and you can see the pathway at a glance in this @Dev_journal poster from Anming Meng
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.188490

@Nature The safest strategy for #COVID19 & other variable 🦠 is to use combinations of #antibodies. It would be even better to use combinations of multispecific antibodies that recognize antigenic regions under minimal immune pressure, because those are the regions that are least likely to mutate .the perspectives view of the Drug maker - Laura Walker
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02125-3?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1688041689

O FMI avisou que, para controlar a inflação, as empresas teriam de aceitar uma compressão das margens de lucro (que causaram 1/2 da inflação desde 2021). Para o BCE, são os trabalhadores que põem a economia em perigo com o aumento dos salários, “obrigando” a subir taxas de juro. https://t.co/zS33wFbhZj

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1674365648460214273

Meet the ASAPbio Fellows!
Chenyue Jiao is a PhD student in School of Information Sciences at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Chenyue's research interest lies in scholarly communication where she studies research data sharing and reuse.

#ASAPbio #ECRs #ECR #preprint #preprints #research #science #scicomm #ScienceCommunication #publishing #OpenScience

Nice to see new people registering on biologists.social. Welcome everyone!

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- Click on "local" to see all posts from all the friendly biologists who are joining this server. This may help you find people to follow as this community grows

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“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

-James Baldwin

No other country followed Thatcher’s privatisation of our water industry. You can see why. Poor services. Poor investment. High prices. Sewage dumped in our water systems. Huge payouts to executives and corporate shareholders for failure and now the prospect of UK taxpayers bailing out a failing water firm owned by China and Abu Dhabi

The Company of Biologists loves engaging with our journal's communities and uses various channels to do so.
Read all about the latest addition: http://biologists.social, a Mastodon server in support of the biological community

In their #OpenAccess article, Nevena Stajković, Ivana Nikić-Spiegel & colleagues describe their novel approach for live labelling large neuronal transmembrane proteins & ion channels in primary neurons using unnatural amino acids & click chemistry.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/12/jcs260600/320411/Direct-fluorescent-labeling-of-NF186-and-NaV1-6-in

To find out more about this research, check out the ‘First person’ interview with Nevena Stajković:
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/12/jcs261396/320410/First-person-Nevena-Stajkovic

On this day in 2018: Arvid Carlson died, won #2000 NobelPrize for discovering signal transduction in nervous system #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech

The one thing Google always did pretty well was "Search". Now, quality websites are being relegated further and further down the results page, replaced by more and more sponsored sites and YouTube links (again, delivering Ads). Of course the situation will become even worse when the presence of AI becomes fully integrated into Search. How will a small business, with a good website get noticed? Presumably the plan is for us all to pay more and more. Well sod that!

I think what may happen is that, as Google Search becomes less and less relevant, there will be a migration to fast and relevant, alternative search providers. This is already happening to some extent.

I have been using open source (auditable), non tracking search providers using the "SEARX" software for a while now. I can join a public server or even start up my own server on my computer. Already an improvement on Google without the Ads and tracking.
https://searx.github.io/searx/

I am also testing out a "paid" search option called Kagi https://kagi.com/ . For a small monthly fee (businesses have to monetise somehow) you can have your search results any way you like, ad and tracking free. Personally, I am happy to pay $5 a month to get speed, relevancy and answers to my internet searches.

Anyway, interesting times.

#Google #Search #Searx #Kagi

#OtD 29 Jun 1879 Pedro Vallina Martinez, Spanish anarchist doctor and civil war fighter, was born. Jailed and exiled by the Spanish state, when the revolution came he organised militia groups and worker-controlled health service https://libcom.org/history/vallina-pedro-1879-1970

Looking to use quantitative bioimaging in your experiments? Our new Essay from @bethcimini &co provides a navigational guide for biologists new to quantitative bioimaging, with recommendations and pointers to open source resources. #microscopy #PLOSBiology
https://plos.io/3JCd3Et