Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

There’s fiction and non-fiction, then there are those books written by experts who provide no examples or supporting references.

'A week before New York City’s app-based delivery workers were poised to see an hourly minimum wage increase, several tech companies fired a legal salvo that has temporarily delayed this change.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/12/food-app-delivery-workers-minimum-wage-blocked-grubhub-uber-doordash-new-york-city

'Overall, our study identifies a previously unrecognized function of STING in negatively regulating anti-fungal immune responses and offers a potential therapeutic strategy for controlling C. albicansinfection.'
#Immunology #InnateImmunity #Fungus

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00237-6

Democracy 101

"Um ministro não deve exercer a sua influência, que é muita, junto de alguém que está a desenvolver o seu trabalho numa empresa pública ou privada. Não gosta de determinado conteúdo, não olha."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/12/opiniao/opiniao/ligou-jose-luis-carneiro-rtp-2056495

'Using RNAseq on blood from nine primate species exposed to bacterial lipopolysaccharides, we fit phylogenetic models and discovered hypermetric scaling in innate immune gene responses. We speculate that immune allometries may lead to asymmetrical expectations for virulence of zoonotic pathogens, such that diseases originating in smaller species may cause more severe immunopathology in larger species.'
#InnateImmunity #Inflammation #Sepsis #Immunology #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.11.548565v1

'Humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times in late 2021 and early 2022, according to new research led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The research also suggests that the virus probably spread widely among deer, that it mutated in the animals and that they may have passed these altered versions of the virus back to people at least three times.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/health/coronavirus-deer-zoonotic.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

Vietnamese woodblock folk prints often feature historical figures, social commentaries and popular folktales. This print depicts the wedding march of a rat couple and their guests, all nervously hoping the big cat will leave them alone.
#art #folklore #FolkArt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UCSF

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Postdoctoral position available at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mission Bay campus.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-ucsf/?feed_id=49790

#ScienceJobs #h...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-ucsf/?feed_id=49790

A battered journal contains new information about a French botanist who travelled to Australia in 1800.

The journal offers insights into his fears and ambitions, observations, and discussions of the effects of colonisation, writes Paul Gibbard (@uwanews). https://t.co/ulolBcOOYN

6 organelles imaged simultaneously in a live cancer cell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU8eKgSidqw&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Immunologists and a control at RU.

Super work on #enhancer - #promoter contacts; nice role for #eRNA in maintaining contacts to promoter bursting too! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01442-7

[Fermat's Library] Computers & Automata
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/computers-and-automata

Claude Shannon's 1953 paper addresses then-nascent topics in computation that are profoundly relevant today.

He explores intriguing concepts: whether a machine can learn f. its errors or simulate the human brain.

This paper ignited the imaginations of future A.I. pioneers Marvin Minsky & John McCarthy, signifying its impact on the evolution of computer science.

#ClaudeShannon #ComputerScience #computation #computers #history

Fans of #Celegans will appreciate today's Research Highlight from Journal of Cell Science: Asako Sugimoto and colleagues identify unconventional subunits of the C. elegans γTuC microtubule nucleating complex acquired during its evolution, with important roles in embryonic development and germline maintenance. #microtubules #evolutionarybiology

Discovering divergent γTuC subunits in C. elegans
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/13/e136_e1303/323431/Discovering-divergent-gTuC-subunits-in-C-elegans

'Grouping rare disease patients for clinical trials based on the underlying molecular etiology, rather than the traditional, symptom-based definition of disease, has the potential to greatly increase the number of patients gaining access to clinical trials.'

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202217159

'Many tech platforms have instituted policies against misinformation or hateful speech that have resulted in content such as election denial, anti-vaccine falsehoods and far-right conspiracy theories being removed – all which tend to skew Republican. But research has found that allegations of anti-conservative bias at social media companies have little empirical evidence, with a 2021 New York University study showing that these platforms’ algorithms instead often work to amplify rightwing content.'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/republicans-fuel-the-disinformation-wars

'This stage was reached in the early forties, i.e., at the time when Oswald T. Avery and his collaborators began to work on the transformation of pneumococci, and Delbruck and Luria on the phages of E. coli, although Avery's laboratory was much more receptive to the application of chemistry than was the other group. It is really with Avery that there began what I have called, in my title, the chemical education of genetics. It is, perhaps, characteristic of the way in which science operates that the educator was neither a geneticist nor a chemist. The learning process was slow and weary: the card-carrying members of the guild and their assorted acolytes refused as long as possible, and even beyond that point, to take cognizance.'

https://www.queensu.ca/academia/forsdyke/bioinfo1.htm

"Oppenheimer’s son Peter refused a formal interview, so Sherwin brought his family to the Pecos Wilderness near Santa Fe, saddled up a horse and rode to the Oppenheimers’ rustic cabin, wrangling a chance to talk to the scientist’s son as the two men built a fence. “Marty never thought he was a great interviewer,” said Susan Sherwin, who accompanied him on many research trips, and survives him. But he had a knack for connecting with people.

(A 1963 portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of the biography “American Prometheus” and a new film based on the book.Credit...Eddie Adams/Associated Press)"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/books/oppenheimer-american-prometheus-sherwin-bird.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Book%20Review