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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'One pleasant surprise was a protein shape that had never been seen before. The researchers dubbed it a ‘Beta-flower’ because the structures contain a number of hairpin turns — found in a known protein shape called a Beta-barrel — that resemble petals on a flower.'
“António Costa está há quase oito anos no Governo e desde 2015 que disse que queria resolver o problema da habitação, quase 8 anos depois nem sequer acabou com o regime dos 'vistos gold', não tocou no regime de residentes não habituais e promoveu o regime dos nómadas digitais. Fez um convite mundial a especuladores para virem especular sobre a habitação do nosso país e colocou a banca a ganhar dinheiro como nunca ganhou até agora”
'But how phenylephrine stayed on the market this long despite decades of studies and questions is a tangled story involving old drug standards dating back to a law signed by President Kennedy, the proliferation of meth labs using everyday cold remedies in the 1990s, and even the pandemic.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/health/fda-cold-medicine-decongestant.html
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For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.
'The new rules, which went into effect on Sept. 5, mean as many as 10,800 listings for short-term rentals will likely no longer be available, according to a city estimate from the end of March. City officials say the shift will force property owners to rent those homes to residents instead of visitors, helping to ease the city’s housing shortage.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/nyregion/airbnb-nyc-housing-rentals.html
'And so a lot of the people who try to romanticize what the Roman Empire was and putting themselves into the Roman Empire imagine themselves being, you know, the senator in the fine toga laying on the side, being hand-fed grapes. Whereas more likely than not, they would have died at the age of 28 because of an undiagnosed kidney stone while they were trying to plow their lands.'
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‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant?
'This is a hard essay to read or listen to, and it’s meant to be. Clearly, it was hard to write; watching Ursula in her 80s read her own words aloud, more than a decade after she wrote them, the emotion is palpable'
https://lithub.com/watch-ursula-k-le-guin-on-her-illegal-abortion-in-1950/
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'You get the picture; it’s bleak. All in all, by the time a child reaches the age of 13, online advertising firms have collected an average of 72 million data points about them.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/kids-online-data-privacy-tracking-apps/675320/
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“‘Impression, Sunrise’ is not a sweet sea landscape but a bomb so powerful” that it smashed classical tradition, says painter Adrian Ghenie, “putting the Greco-Roman canon to rest for good”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9499b736-32b7-4ea9-b728-e805a859907a
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'A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/cat-bohannon-eve.html
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"The BMJ asked the colleges to disclose all payments from industry, campaign groups, or patient associations, including the specific amount received from each donor, but they all refused to do so, other than the Royal College of Anaesthetists."
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'If the NIH does decide to support fewer postdocs but with increased pay, it could change the calculus for many labs across the country. Schwetz acknowledges this, and says that leading a smaller lab will hopefully help PIs to provide a better experience for their team members and to focus on a smaller number of projects. Some scientists are looking forward to that kind of future.'
'A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/cat-bohannon-eve.html
Thiago Carvalho
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Hyperacute rejection
"One photograph of a pig kidney recovered from a baboon at 10 minutes after transplantation shows a blackened lump that resembles more a disaster in a French kitchen than standard organ rejection."
'One pleasant surprise was a protein shape that had never been seen before. The researchers dubbed it a ‘Beta-flower’ because the structures contain a number of hairpin turns — found in a known protein shape called a Beta-barrel — that resemble petals on a flower.'
“‘Impression, Sunrise’ is not a sweet sea landscape but a bomb so powerful” that it smashed classical tradition, says painter Adrian Ghenie, “putting the Greco-Roman canon to rest for good”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9499b736-32b7-4ea9-b728-e805a859907a
'You get the picture; it’s bleak. All in all, by the time a child reaches the age of 13, online advertising firms have collected an average of 72 million data points about them.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/kids-online-data-privacy-tracking-apps/675320/
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6 thought provoking questions posed to @awaisaftab (psychiatrist) and myself (brain researcher) and we hit on so much:
The challenge of escaping reductionism. Theories of consciousness. Are mental disorders brain disorders? Why should anyone care about philosophy? Is epistemic iteration is failing? And what bits of brain research are awaiting their Copernican moment?
With nods to @summerfieldlab, @knutson_brain, @tyrell_turing, @Neurograce, @eikofried
and so many more.
Read it all here (and let's discuss)!
https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
