Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Prospective magnetic resonance imaging of 259 people with Covid (requiring hospitalization) vs controls showed significant multi-organ abnormalities at 5 months (median), linked to symptoms https://thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(23)00262-X/fulltext

Hey there! 👋🏽

I'm a biomedical engineer and informaticist curious about all intersections of data and society 💡

I work in #Philly at the Penn Urban Health Lab on #RSpatial projects centering urban nature, racial justice, and health equity 🌱

I'm also an #RStats educator passionate about #DataLiteracy and #FOSS as tools to build power in communities ✊🏽

You can learn more about me at https://silviacanelon.com, and I hope to learn more about you here! 🦣

#introduction

@TomSwirly @shuttersparks @aral

Clarence Thomas - always on the make

'Investigadores chinos han modificado genéticamente gusanos de seda para que produzcan seda, pero de araña. Los hilos conseguidos combinan las propiedades mecánicas de fibras sintéticas como el nailon, una de las más resistentes, o el kevlar, material usado en los chalecos antibalas.'

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-09-21/investigadores-chinos-crean-gusanos-mutantes-que-fabrican-seda-de-arana.html

'Here, we discovered a phenomenon in which male offspring in maternal immune activation models of autism spectrum disorder do not experience infantile amnesia.'

#Preprint #Immunology #Neuroimmunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.24.488172v3

'For German contemporaries, the leitmotif of 1923 was uncertainty. At different times the country seemed on the brink of civil war, communist revolution, military dictatorship, societal implosion, or a combination of the above. As the academic Victor Klemperer noted in his diary: “Every day you say that a catastrophe must arrive, without knowing which one”.'

https://www.ft.com/content/67aeb1f8-060e-47f5-b341-50373327972f

"(...) in 2022, the College Board boasts, roughly 1.2 million students took more than four million A.P. exams in public high schools throughout the country. And when I teach a first-year writing course, or an introductory course in the English major, I inevitably spend the first few weeks undoing the damage the A.P. system does to how students understand both writing and the study of literature."

https://newrepublic.com/article/173547/ap-classes-waste-time-annie-abrams-education-book-review

Quality standards in proteomics research facilities: Common standards and quality procedures are essential for proteomics facilities and their users - Zurich Open Repository and Archive https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/210808/

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#proteomics #prot-paper

"We established the Stroke Preclinical Assessment Network (SPAN) to design and implement a randomized, controlled, blinded, multi-laboratory trial for the rigorous assessment of candidate stroke treatments combined with intravascular thrombectomy."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adg8656

One of Madalena's giant tsuba prints emerging from the press.

#Art #ArtGallery #Printmaking #Prints #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com

It’s not Groundhog Day: Even more Clarence Thomas corruption has been uncovered by @ProPublica.

A George W. Bush-appointed judge says these newest revelations about Thomas fundraising for the Koch brothers “takes my breath away.” https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

@s3thi

Any commercial social media platform will quickly face the same fate as Twitter. The oil industry has an insatiable appetite for investments that subvert democracy.

Efforts to disrupt the formation of communities are deliberate.

Fascist movements always co-opt mechanisms for communications & organization
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich
India faces its own anti-democracy threats from its own elites, just like the USA & UK
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/world/canada/hardeep-singh-nijjar-killed.html
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/15/opinion/canada-ukraine-oil-gas-fuels-fascism
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fossil-fuels-fascism-narendra-modi

2 Postdoctoral Researcher positions - Kapahi lab

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

The #Kapahi lab at the #Buck Institute is inviting applicants for 2 #postdoc positions using bioinformatic approaches from flies and humans.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-pos...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/buck-institute-for-research-on-aging-27778-2-postdoctoral-researcher-positions-kapahi-lab/?feed_id=59655

'One lesson is that when it comes to technology, we’re lazy. We reach for the nearest familiar tool without thinking about whether it’s the right one for the job, or even thinking clearly about what the job is. Are we trying to think through a problem? Get a discussion going? Show people that worth-a-thousand-words picture? We skip that vital contemplative step and load up a slide template instead. Because everyone can use PowerPoint, everyone does.'

https://www.ft.com/content/728cb9a0-aa62-4cdd-a16a-cf3c7cb78b17

'Much of the controversy arises from differing views on the defining characteristics of eukaryotes. We argue that eukaryotes should be defined phylogenetically, and that doing so clarifies where competing hypotheses of eukaryogenesis agree and how we may test among aspects of disagreement.'

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00987-9

'Buenos ejemplos son los vinos procedentes de las colinas de la Toscana en Italia, los viñedos de terrazas en el valle del Duero en Portugal, la Región de Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes en Francia, las laderas empinadas del Mosela en Alemania, o el Valle de Aosta, región del Véneto y la Lombardía en Italia.'

https://elpais.com/gastronomia/beber/2023-09-21/ocho-grandes-vinos-de-viticultura-heroica.html