Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Hi all! I'm a 2nd-year PhD Student in Computer Science at Northeastern, with a focus in exploratory analysis tools for #datavisualization of high-dimensional data. I'm particularly interested in #XAI and #genomics . I'm also a practicing emergent media artist, and currently teaching myself #Blender #B3d . Here''s my website for more background: http://universalities.com/

☝️ Now published in Lancet:

"Enteroviruses and risk of islet autoimmunity or type 1 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled observational studies detecting viral nucleic acids and proteins"
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00122-5

#Type1Diabetes #t1d #enterovirus #vaccine #antiviral #virus #virology

Fondly remembering Martin (Marty) Alan Feldman (1934-82), the unique, BAFTA-winning English writer, comedian and actor, born in London #OnThisDay. He worked memorably with Barry Took, Spike Milligan and Richard Lester, among others, and was a relentless scene stealer as Igor / "Eyegore" ("What hump?") in Mel Brooks' glorious #YoungFrankenstein (1974) - subsequently reuniting with Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn for #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother (1975).

#MartyFeldman #BOTD #OTD

https://elifesciences.org/articles/88853

Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907-1917)

https://www.openculture.com/2019/02/behold-the-drawings-of-franz-kafka-1907-1917.html

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/new_info/2023/malaria_florida.html

https://covid19.who.int/

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/viral-haemorrhagic-fevers#:~:text=Present%20in%20Europe%20are%20Puumula,(transmitted%20through%20tick%20bites

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2023-DON433

https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/news/maine-cdc-identifies-positive-measles-test-result-fri-05052023-1200

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/04/10/1168141163/the-dream-of-wiping-out-polio-might-need-a-rethink

'Every part of Threads’ existence makes me shake my head: Twitter selling itself to Elon Musk because he offered a stupid high price; Elon Musk promptly ruining Twitter so badly that any alternative looks palatable, even one run by Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg; the bland, market-tested design; the thirsty grindfluencers posting with the energy of a puppy with zoomies; the looming, heavy-breathing presence of Zuck; the corporate-ness of it all.'

https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing

'Most cancers exhibit aneuploidy, but its functional significance in tumor development is controversial. Here, we describe ReDACT (Restoring Disomy in Aneuploid cells using CRISPR Targeting), a set of chromosome engineering tools that allow us to eliminate specific aneuploidies from cancer genomes'

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg4521

'The new administration has also raised pay for researchers on federal scholarships and announced that it plans to increase the number of scholarships available. This is clearly good news, but there are still reasons to be worried about the future of science in Brazil. One overarching problem is the lack of a long-term strategy for scientific research and innovation, including a target for investments in science and education as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP). In this article we summarize six specific problems and challenges confronting research and innovation in Brazil, and make recommendations on how to address them.'

https://elifesciences.org/articles/88853

'Genetic elements encoded in nuclear DNA determine the sex of an individual in many animals. In bivalves, however, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been hypothesized to contribute to sex determination in lineages that possess doubly uniparental inheritance'

#preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.05.547839v1

What is a person if not a self-hosted social media instance?

A new study shows that simply believing a sham medical treatment is personalised increases its effectiveness. https://elifesciences.org/digests/84691/personalised-placebo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

by Norbert Ptak

Hardly a decade after the Civil War and Boston is still changing itself, with more evolution to come. Still shows "South Bay" and an inlet between Charleston and Cambridge. From a notable American publisher, Gray, from 1874.

#maps #boston #map

BC's 🇨🇦 chief veterinarian has lifted an order preventing commercial poultry flocks from being outside due to the outbreak of H5N1 bird flu.

The order was in place for about 9 months.