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
@joanagcc @kristinHenry Welcome to the Pleistocene, Joana.
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First post on Mastodon! Many thanks to @kristinHenry for giving me a spot on vis.social :)
Recent illustration work on the neutrophils that migrate to cancers in the brain. 🧠
Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dN7JtZ5x
This was a wonderful project to work on! Many thanks to Johanna Joyce and Roeltje Maas for the trust.
"I had worked on mitochondrial DNA in vertebrate cells and in yeast. I became fascinated by the unusual mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomatids, which is a very large network of catenated circles (1). Then, on the side, I discovered this organelle, the glycosome, which contains the whole glycolytic system of the trypanosomatids (4). I still remember the excitement when we found that."
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"I'll have what she's having!" Why do females choose particular mates? @EmilyHDuVal @servedio1 &co propose that mate choices rely on context-dependent social information, explaining major puzzles in the study of #SexualSelection, including why preferences vary among individuals and over time and how male trait variation is maintained. #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/46EHVgN
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PhD Student (f/m/d) – Computational Cancer Genomics / Bioinformatics
St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI)
Be part of Science that makes a difference!
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-phd-student-f-m-d-computa...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-phd-student-f-m-d-computational-cancer-genomics-bioinformatics/?feed_id=60675
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#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 people arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).
Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street
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Timeline cleanse! Laphonza Butler sworn in today by VP Kamala Harris as the first Black openly #LGBTQ+ Senator in history, as Butler's wife, Neneke Lee, holds the Bible, and all smile. [📸 AP Stephanie Scarbrough]
"La vacuna comenzó a inocularse en abril en Ghana. Y hay 18 países africanos que ya están solicitando dosis a través de GAVI. La OMS espera que con la mayor producción que comenzará a mediados del año que viene, más Estados se sumen a esta lista."
Great interview in Science with my friend, the artist Rob Kesseler. I still remember a great exchange with a student at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia who watched how Rob created art starting from images collected in collaboration with labs and let out an exasperated "You cant do that!".
Rob calmly replied "I can, I'm an artist".
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/no-one-ever-asked-monet-if-they-were-false-colors
'The snub was about more than just gender, according to Ms. Moss. “It’s easy to say she (Lise Meitner) didn’t get it because she was a woman,” Ms. Moss said. “One doesn’t think a woman is going to make noise about things.” Ms. Moss also believes Meitner’s heritage was at play: “This is a case where it was because she was a Jew.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/science/lise-meitner-fission-nobel.html
'Quando digo com violência, não estou a falar de atirar tinta. Agrediram efetivamente os jovens. Estes nunca responderam às agressões. Curiosamente, não vi revolta e indignação face à violência que os automobilistas usaram. Nada disso. Foi tema de inúmeras piadas e mereceu toda a compreensão dos mesmos que diziam não aceitar violência seja em que circunstância for. Jovens em luta não merecem a condescendência destas pessoas, mas automobilistas raivosos e descontrolados claro que sim.'
https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/04/opiniao/opiniao/conservadorismo-pior-2065516
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#Clinicalperspectives The #ychromosome was once used to label people as criminal. A new complete Y chromosome sequence just might combat this dangerous myth .The promises and perils of #GenomicsResearch. The Y chromosome’s completion caps a history of ideology & superstition about genetics and human behavior that is illustrative of how people can use genetics to dehumanize those viewed as “disabled.”
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Anyone who cares about scientific publishing* in biomedical sciences should read this piece by @richardsever
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234
* the fact that few people do might explain why things are in such a state.
"For an enslaved person, running away carried enormous risk—most fugitives were caught and returned or died in the process. Running away with a child made a successful journey to freedom all the more improbable. Running away with four children would have seemed like a suicide mission. But Henson was determined."
(Illustration by Matt Williams)
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My answer? Bend over backward to fund a more diverse range of people and ideas, even deliberately including ideas that are currently perceived as unpopular, unworkable, obscure, and the like. After all, many scientific discoveries can be traced back to origins that didn’t seem promising — like CRISPR, which began with a Spanish study on salt-loving archaebacteria in 1993 — or even to ideas that are actively opposed by the establishment.
To be sure, the success rate of this approach might be low. But if we funded 10,000 people who looked like a younger Karikó, and only one of them did something that would have the impact of her mRNA research, that would be well worth it.
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Who Built the Egyptian Pyramids & How Did They Do It?: New Archeological Evidence Busts Ancient Myths
https://www.openculture.com/2021/03/who-built-the-egyptian-pyramids-how-did-they-do-it.html via @openculture
Let's hope he follows through:
'Tax breaks for foreign residents in Portugal are “no longer justified”, the prime minister, Antonio Costa, has declared, promising to close the scheme for new applicants in 2024 after it stoked housing prices in one of western Europe’s poorest nations.'
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NEW: Food prices in Europe have been soaring. Earlier this year, the Austrian government said it would build a price database to let people compare costs at different supermarkets. It said this would take months to make and only include a small number of product categories.
Within 2 hours, @badlogic had built a first prototype, pulling the data from supermarket's websites, and open sourced the project. Now Heisse Preise lists 177,000 products from 10 chains.
The transparency has allowed prices to be compared: and the results appear to show supermarkets are watching each other and adjusting their prices based on others. The competition authority is investigating and already said new laws should make supermarkets publish proper APIs with full item data
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FDA authorizes Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
