Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Excellent new paper: Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9417

"The final point for the entomologist's battle plan is to develop the perfect simple catchphrase with longevity and impact to effectively set concern for insect wellbeing globally for the next decade or more" - Anyone got an advance on #LittleThingsThatRunTheWorld?

#entomology #conservation #ecology

Single-cell proteomics: quantifying post-transcriptional regulation during development with mass-spectrometry | https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/13/dev201492/321185/Single-cell-proteomics-quantifying-post?guestAccessKey=760ae666-1456-46b0-800e-120c93312c23 #proteomics

Can anyone recommend good accounts here to follow re the situation in Russia?

Wildfire smoke - now extra toxic plumes from sun UV

Did you know just one of the many fires burning in Quebec is the size of an entire Canadian province (PEI), or large enough to stretch between the cities of Ottawa and Montreal or Toronto to Niagara Falls? Read on to learn more about why the smoke now smells like plastic and the health impact. 🧵 1/

You can read the unrolled one page version here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1675174138741178371.html

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

After finally finding a place that feels more like home on mastodon, here goes the #introduction:
I am a PhD candidate in #computationalneuroscience at the University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany.

I am interested in understanding the relationship between brain computations and dynamics. That's why I study population neural dynamics and their correlation structure underlying different behaviors (e.g., during selective attention tasks).

Looking forward to interactions in this space!

Research Technician II - Preall Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-research-technician-ii-preall-lab/?feed_id=48894

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spring-harbor-laboratory-27778-research-technician-ii-preall-lab/?feed_id=48894

Mastodon Help!

Easy-to-follow blog post on getting started on Mastodon: https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

List of psychologists on Mastodon: https://kaitclark.github.io/mastodon-psychology/

Automatically export the Mastodon handles of your Twitter followings and import them on Mastodon: https://fedifinder.glitch.me

#TwitterMigration #MastodonHelp
#Psychology

Cool new method to detect the positions of protein binding of specific mRNA

"TREX reveals proteins that bind to specific RNA regions in living cells"
#mRNA #RNA #preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.547259v1

'Obese people often rebound to their former weights when they cease treatments and diet regimens. The British NHS has placed a two-year limit on injectables as obesity treatments, but what happens then? Pharma companies are preparing for a battle to keep on getting paid.'

https://www.ft.com/content/cb26c3df-29be-437f-b98a-d2511b212083

News from Gates & Wellcome
"Two leading medical charities will contribute about $550mn to fund a large-scale clinical trial of what would be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine for more than a century."
#Vaccine #Tuberculosis #PublicHealth

https://www.ft.com/content/fa4eb584-e347-47b1-b380-daa7026a010f

New here, switched servers (phew!) and still learning. #Introduction I'm a Hungarian/American #anthropologist #medanthro #publichealth #healthpolicy prof. Working on addressing #social #structural drivers of #healthinequities especially in #lactation #breastfeeding and across #reproduction. Mama to two. #Baking, #hiking & hanging with our rescue #dogs Cocoa & Huxley in my free time. 👋

Hey gang. Little re- #introduction from me. I'm a #zoologist working in #science #education at the Natural History Museum, London and I'm also a #childrensbooks #author. I write about pretty much all #naturalhistory (#dinosaurs, #invertebrates, #ecology, #behaviour...) and I'd love to connect on here with you all! :)

IF KISSINGER OUTLIVES TWITTER I AM GOING TO HAVE A FUCKING BREAKDOWN

I am particularly interested in following new people who are:
- growers and farmers, in the UK or beyond
- researchers in life sciences generally, and ecology/agriculture/horticulture/entomology specifically
- #ActuallyAutistic
- interested in promoting social justice and inclusivity in science and academia
- talking about ecology/agriculture in tropical biomes

So open to recommendations and follows in these and other areas!

Yes, the Court’s affirmative action decision is worse than you thought.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/john-roberts-supreme-court-brown-v-board-of-education.html

A biologist’s guide to planning and performing quantitative bioimaging experiments | PLOS Biology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002167

Michael Harriot:

Between 2014 and 2019, 69.3% of the legacy admissions to Harvard were white. And, while most people think of athletic scholarships for football and basketball going to Black students, athletic scholarships are disproportionately reserved for non-revenue (pronounced “why-yet”) sports and students who shoot golf, play rowing and do sword fighting. This year alone, 75% of the athletes recruited for Harvard’s 2023 freshman class are white."

#blackmastodon
https://thegrio.com/2023/06/30/theres-no-such-thing-as-race-neutral/