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
Looking forward to chairing Tim Stearns' session at the "Future of Graduate Education" conference next Monday (Set 18th) at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia.
It's a great lineup, including Nick Barton, Susan Holmes & Ana Godinho (from CERN).
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Anti-choice states aren’t satisfied. Now they want to punish traveling for abortions
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#IDMastodon #PedsID #LongCovidKids Although the clinical and immunological features of #COVID19 differ in children and adults,it has been shown that post-acute sequelae of #SarsCoV2 infection may also occur in the paediatric population. It has been reported that children have presented with neurological and psychological symptoms, as well as loss of smell, fatigue & dyspnoea.
'Some have argued that this contrast is an exaggeration, since the EU, unlike the US, already had a Green Deal in place, involving funding pledges not too dissimilar to Biden’s. Alas, the devil is in the detail: the EU’s Green Deal offers up to €1tn of pledges that – unlike the funding offered in Biden’s act – is not actual money, but rather a fictional number akin to the notorious Juncker plan, whose pledged €300bn of new investment funds never really materialised.'
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I'm re-reading Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. I'd forgotten there's a section on how, during such crises, people become prone to irrational beliefs and charlatans promoting, for want of a better expression, 'conspiracy theories' and anti-scientific ideas, and how these obsessional beliefs engender paranoia and the threat of group violence against 'non believers'. Maybe it's just something that (some) humans do in such times...
#Pandemic #conspiracytheory
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On this day in 1957: 1st report of successful bone marrow transplant in leukaemia patient #ThisDayInBiotech
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David Davis & Caroline Lucas MPs are supporting an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would seek to protect the end-to-end encrypted services. Many parents rely on these apps to safely and securely share family pictures. #onlinesafetybill #encryption #privacy #E2EE
'The whole thing is a political show. They say they want to reduce the cost of the asylum system, but this boat and the way we have been dealt with must have cost a fortune. At the moment there are 39 asylum seekers here, and there are 20 staff for 39 people. Previously, in our hotel before we were moved to the Bibby Stockholm, there were only about 10 members of staff for 300 asylum seekers, so how can that be said to be about reducing the cost?
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Any bioinformaticians help me out?
I'm looking for a server/program/whatever that, given 2 protein sequences from organism X, will go away and hunt down a few hundred equivalent sequences from other organisms, and then look at evolutionary covariance (at an amino acid level).
I'm looking to see if there is something out there that already does what I need, before going in. I'm certain there should be, bit I can't find it yet.
#Bioinformatics
"In late 1977, as the Chilean military junta extended the state of siege in place since its 1973 coup and formally dissolved all political parties, Friedrich Hayek wrote a letter to a German newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, to protest what he depicted as unfair international criticism of the government of General Augusto Pinochet."
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@us_fda For the first time ever, there are vaccines for three major fall and winter respiratory illnesses. #flu, #COVID19, and #rsv (respiratory syncytial virus) – and wondering if you should get all three shots…
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/covid-19-flu-and-rsv
https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1701300315499204746/video/1
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Big news in the #scholarlypublishing community! The Open Funder Registry is merging into Research Organization Registry (ROR), bringing together #funders and #publishers in a more efficient and streamlined way. Learn more about this significant transition in our latest blog post. https://www.crossref.org/blog/open-funder-registry-to-transition-into-research-organization-registry-ror/ #LetsRORTogether
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Hi #ScienceMastodon! Check out the last Research Highlight from Issue 17 of JCS: Ke Hu and colleagues at Arizona State University mess with microtubule-associated proteins in Toxoplasma gondii to answer whether the distinct helical motility of this apicomplexan parasite arises from the spiral arrangement of its remarkably stable cortical microtubules.
#CellBiology #microtubules #parasitology
Function follows form of cortical microtubules in Toxoplasma gondii
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/17/e136_e1702/327904/Function-follows-form-of-cortical-microtubules-in
"In an ideal world, the pre-award process would be transparent, easily understood, and equitable. There would be equal access for all researchers to information about funding opportunities, along with tailored support to meet a range of needs, including those of underrepresented academics. There would be plenty of time and resources allocated for applications, and appropriate training for those in decision-making positions. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that, sadly, things look very different in the real world."
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arXiv, the open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints, is experiencing a DDOS attack. Over a million email change requests were received from 200 IP addresses in China, overwhelming the arXiv email service.
Browsing and submitting papers on arXiv are not affected. Daily emails, new account registrations, and legitimate email address changes are all impacted by this disruption.
What would be the motivation?
https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/09/11/arxiv-org-is-experiencing-a-ddos-attack/
#arxiv #ddos
'The transcriptomic signature of human acute kidney injury was enriched with genes in pathways involved in cell adhesion and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (e.g., CDH6, ITGB6, CDKN1A).'
#Preprint
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In today's picture: Corvus caurinus (known as Northwestern crow). 
#CORVUSPHERE #CorvusCaurinus #NorthwesternCrow
Glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety
https://hunchbacksociety.cargo.site/Small-talk
#Ceramics #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #artmastodon
'A series of low-cost measures to make childbirth safer could save the lives of 2mn more mothers and babies around the world by 2030, said a leading philanthropic organisation.'
https://www.ft.com/content/2d26c1ba-8f51-43d8-a3a5-b96b5b387df8
'Years ago, researchers discovered that American women were dying in childbirth at an alarming rate, far higher than in many other Western countries. Black women, they found, were dying at even more elevated rates. Data in hand, they called for change.
(...)
The year was 1917.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/maternal-health-childbirth.html
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
