Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Sociologists: Apply to work with me at McGill Sociology!

We are hiring TWO tenure-track lines this year, one in social demography and one in qualitative methods. I can't say enough good things about the department, and Montreal is an unbeatable place to live.

Demography: https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Leacock-Building/Assistant-Professor_JR0000028940

Qualitative: https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Leacock-Building/Assistant-Professor---Department-of-Sociology_JR0000043118

#sociology #sociologie #socjobs #academicjobs @sociology

My latest update on next generation Covid vaccines (No 9) is out now @PLOS

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/07/31/next-generation-covid-vaccines-update-no-9-major-new-hat-in-the-ring-plus-important-results/

It's packed with news, including 3 highlights:

- A major new international collaboration to develop a pancoronavirus vax, including a global pharma company

- Preclinical results for a "cocktail" pancoronavirus approach that protected hamsters from 2 Omicron variants & 2 bat coronaviruses

- Very early clinical trial results for a potentially potent intranasal vaccine

#Covid #Covid19 #vaccine

#IDMastodon #publichealth #Viralimmunology Understanding why we have different responses & symptoms to #SARSCoV2 ( #COVID19) & #influenza 🦠. What these 2 diseases have in common is that they are triggered by a viral infection, which causes fever & pneumonia of varying degrees of severity in infected patients. #Autoantibodies against #interferons, or why certain 🦠 affect us differently
https://rupress.org/jem/article/220/9/e20230661/214186/Autoantibodies-neutralizing-type-I-IFNs-underlie

Bioinformatician in Cancer Genomics

Washington University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-27778-bioinformatician-in-cancer-genomics/?feed_id=52982

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
St Louis #UnitedStatesUS #Bioinformatician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-27778-bioinformatician-in-cancer-genomics/?feed_id=52982

"On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve."
Pensées philosophiques (1746)

Denis Diderot died #OTD in 1784. He was a novelist, playwright, storyteller, essayist, dialogue writer, art critic, literary critic & translator, co-founder, chief editor, & contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. via @wikipedia

Books by Denis Diderot at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2071

#books #literature

@cyrilpedia 4,800. So many.

The International #BrainBee 2023 World Championship starts today! Don't miss the exciting student competition! You can watch live at www.thebrainbee.org.

@luckytran

1.17 million Americans died from the covid disinformation campaigns funded by Republican billionaire donors.

How many billions will die because they thwarted climate action and condemned the planet to an uninhabitable fate?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/12/21/koch-funded-litigation-group-fights-to-protect-covid-misinformation/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/27/climate-crisis-villains-americas-dirty-dozen

"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world . . . a thing that by all the standards of the world we grew up in is an evil thing."

I reviewed the Bird & Sherwin biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer in 2005:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2005/04/10/fallout/cf4054f0-92d1-4d59-bf13-0b0701dcdf12/

#Oppenheimer

Free speech Elon is at it again - X threatens to sue non-profit The Center for Countering Digital Hate, in a blatant attempt to shut them up. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

Mosquitoes that carry West Nile are becoming resistant to insecticides, CDC says

NBC News got rare access to the federal health agency's insect lab in Colorado where scientists study the spread of mosquitoes and the illnesses they carry.

"At CDC's insect lab located in Fort Collins, Colorado — home to tens of thousands of mosquitoes — Connelly's team has found that Culex mosquitoes are living longer when they're exposed to insecticides."

#insects #mosquitoes #WestNile

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mosquitoes-carry-west-nile-are-becoming-resistant-insecticides-cdc-say-rcna96867

RT @: Always good to see new #massspec tools available.Dear #proteomicscommunity and #TeamMassSpec, I am happy to share HowDirty, an R package that facilitates evaluating and reporting molecular contaminants in LC-MS experiments.
https://authorea.com/users/643346/articles/656759-howdirty-an-r-package-to-evaluate-molecular-contaminants-in-lc-ms-experiments…

When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.

This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans

“…we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner.” https://counterhate.com/blog/letters-from-the-lawyers-musk-threatens-ccdh-with-brazen-attempt-to-silence-honest-criticism/

On this day in 1918: Paul D Boyer was born. He won the 1997 #NobelPrize for elucidating enzymatic mechanism of ATP synthesis #ThisDayInBiotech