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
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"Covid vaccines should be available to buy privately in UK, scientists say"
It would be better if everyone who wants a jab can get one.
Pushing it into private means people on low incomes won't, and their health may be at risk as a result.
It's as if killing off the poor is gubmint policy. #Covid
'The National Institutes of Health is releasing a comprehensive dataset that standardizes genomic, proteomic, imaging, and clinical data from individual studies of more than 1,000 tumors across 10 cancer types.'
Personalized RNA #vaccines for #melanoma advance to phase III trials (in combination with anti-PD1).
My latest Clinical Pipeline column for @NatureMedicine #Immunology #Immunotherapy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-023-00072-0
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The IBRO-Dana Brain Awareness Week Grants cycle opens September 1 with increased opportunities for funding! Eligibility for organizers in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the US/Canada. Learn more at https://ibro.org/expansion-ibro-dana-baw/
'Of note, CD20+ T cells are enriched in individuals with MS and in mice with experimental central nervous system (CNS) inflammation, and they have a highly activated phenotype2,3. In a recent publication, we provide evidence that these CD20+ T cells develop by an undirected transfer of B cell membrane termed trogocytosis, which takes place when B cells activate T cells during antigen presentation'
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-023-00920-7?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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I love it when people claim our founding fathers would be against vaccination, when there's so much evidence otherwise. Just released from the American Society for Microbiology archives: Thomas Jefferson from 1826, establishing a public clinic at the University of Virginia providing medical advice, smallpox vaccines (free!), and surgery to all peoples.
'Mark Carrigan, a digital sociologist at the Manchester Institute for Education, UK, argues that the idea that Twitter helped democratize academia “was a bit simplistic” because social media created a space where academic celebrities thrived.'
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0?utm_source=press.coop
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@myriam_vidalv @Nature surveyed >9,000 #Scientists to see how their use us the platform changed since Elon Musk took over. Under 7% have stopped using it altogether and around 46% have joined other social-media platforms.
Why are they leaving?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
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The debt ceiling deal left CDC in a financial hole. Hard to see how this doesn't have a big impact on staffing and programs. https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/16/cdc-budget-cuts-staffing-layoffs/
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Scientific American: The danger of the racist and antisemitic claims re Covid spread by RFK Jr.
#COVID
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racist-covid-infection-theories-arent-just-wrong-they-are-deadly/
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The federal January 6 case against Donald Trump represents a pivotal moment for our nation. Central to this unfolding drama is Judge Tanya Chutkan, tasked with ensuring justice, balancing rights, and shaping the legal path ahead. Let's take a closer look at Judge Chutkan's role in the courtroom battle that carries the highest stakes for the future of our Republic. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/chutkan-trump-protective-order-threat
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#IDMastodon @bmj_latest #Paxlovid “rebound” is a growing concern—as is resistance generally to existing covid antivirals. With #COVID still a risk to vulnerable groups, what does current research make of Paxlovid’s place in our treatment options?
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1666
'Predatory publishers step into this void and accustom uninformed researchers to scientific publishing that is fast and obstacle-free. Once hooked, some authors keep going back to these predatory journals, confusing speed with quality. “OMICS is open access, relatively straightforward and timely. Much less of a hassle and less arrogant than old-school society journals,” one survey respondent wrote.'
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Extreme environments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand microbial eukaryotic ecology, evolution, and genome biology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40657-4
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Many scientists leaving Twitter due to Musk's changes, harming scientific communication. Many have gone to Mastodon.
#science #Twitter https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
@ghazi Not sure - it opened for me (and I don't have a subscription or institutional access) & I just used the link I copied in the toot above.
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As @wdlindsy points out in highlighting the Hasan piece (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/fulton-county-indictment-vs-jack-smith-trump-case.html) MSM reactions to the GA indictment (and to a lesser extent, the NYS one) has a thread of racism in it. The indictments are too much (WaPo's Marcus). Boring (NYT's Baker). In re Bragg--too trivial to take down a former POTUS.
Those are not serious analyses or objections. That means we have to ask why they seemed so to elite reporters and editors.
As Hasan and Lindsey write--there's a prime suspect on that q.
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Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Tu Youyou. Only a few people ventured a guess.
From Wikipedia: Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.
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"I'm 99% convinced that Twitter, as we know it, is dead, and the sooner academics accept that, the better, in terms of finding solutions to these problems."
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
