Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Thiago Carvalho
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The other point is a more generic one: 🧵
2) that universities should begin to take into account the amount of peer review that academics do as part of their performance evaluation / assessment for promotion, etc...
#academicchatter #PeerReview @academicchatter #academia (2/2)
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00364-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
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An interesting Letter to the Editor in CMI. It actually makes 2 separate but related points: 🧵
1) States the benefits of authors re-using peer review performed by other journals, even in the case of paper rejects. It points out the importance of honesty by the authors (though presumably journals can talk to each and also share that information).
#academicchatter #PeerReview @academicchatter (1/2)
https://www.clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-743X(23)00364-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email
'These findings suggest that an ancestral cRFXa homolog coordinated #ciliogenesis in the progenitors of animals and #choanoflagellates and that the selective deployment of the RFX regulatory module may have been necessary to differentiate ciliated from non-ciliated cell types during early animal evolution.'
#Evolution #CellBiology
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00929-6
"We find that purchases dominate laboratory emissions, accounting for more than 50% of emissions, with a median of 2.7 t CO2e/pers, which is 3 to 4-fold the separate contribution from travel, commutes and heating"
#Preprint
cc @mucida
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.04.535626v3
'While extensive research has focused on mitochondrial dNTP homeostasis due to its defects being associated with various mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) depletion and deletion syndromes, the investigation of mitochondrial rNTP homeostasis has received relatively little attention.'
#mitochondria
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“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse
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Calcium and bicarbonate signalling pathways have pivotal, resonating roles in matching ATP production to demand. https://elifesciences.org/articles/84204?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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Steer clear of steatosis – VEGFA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) drive BEC-hepatocyte conversion, an alternative pathway for liver regeneration. #Gouon-EvansLab
Wonderful preLight written by Sakurako Kobayashi and Ryan Brown. They will coordinate more #preprint highlights from the Organogenesis and Cancer Program #PeterMacCC 💡📝
#preLight 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/vegfa-mrna-lnp-promotes-biliary-epithelial-cell-to-hepatocyte-conversion-in-acute-and-chronic-liver-diseases-and-reverses-steatosis-and-fibrosis/
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Anyway, Tom’s article is a fascinating read that relates changes in science to broader changes in academia.
And before you go, here’s another of Tom’s recent contributions you might find interesting: “The Invisible Workload of Open Research”: https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5
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How does the science reform movement align with broader changes in the academic landscape? Tom Hostler tackles this question in a new article on “Scientific reform, post-academic research, and academic identity”: https://markrubin.substack.com/p/scientific-reform-post-academic-research
🧵👇
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#SociologyofScience
#ScienceofScience
#STS
@stsing
"This series consists of three-dimensional and collapsable (pop-up) collages, made inside cardboard boxes. The images used are engravings and illustrations found in a german encyclopedia published in the 1930’s.
Scales range from 15cmx21cm to 21x28cm."
Thiago Carvalho
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Malpighian tubules are one of the most successful organs on earth 🌏 🌍 🌎
The majority of animals have them. Doesn't matter: biomass? total species? total population? Got 'em.
🐕 🐛 🐦🐜🐞 🐟 🦋🐜🕷️🙆 🐜
What I'm saying is: not having malpighian tubules is *peak* counterculture ✊✊✊
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New SARS-CoV-2 variant gains dominance in US amid mild summer COVID wave https://arstechnica.com/?p=1959483
Thiago Carvalho
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What can you expect from one of our Open Days?
Join students Michael and Chan as they take you to an Open Day at Imperial College London 🔍
Thiago Carvalho
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#IDMastodon #Immunology Oview & Understanding of sex differences in #immunometabolism #viralinfections ( #SarsCoV2 ) prophylaxis and therapy
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1259382/full?utm_source=S-TWT&utm_medium=SNET&utm_campaign=ECO_FIMMU_XXXXXXXX_auto-dlvrit
@RWerpachowski@mastodon.green It will come back when bonds are back in fashion :)
'Meta has axed a team that used artificial intelligence to create the first database of more than 600mn protein structures, in a signal the company is abandoning purely scientific projects in favour of building moneymaking AI products.'
https://www.ft.com/content/919c05d2-b894-4812-aa1a-dd2ab6de794a
“We’re used to hurricanes ruining plans, tropical storms, even just bad thunderstorms,” she said. “But I don’t recall ever looking at anyone and saying ‘It’s too hot to go to the beach.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/summer-travel-climate-change.html
Thiago Carvalho
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In the largest study to measure cytokines and chemokines during Covid, with or without vaccination, a lower inflammatory profile was seen with prior vaccination, supporting its potential short and long- term protective benefit
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00171-4/fulltext
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
