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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"The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts
In addition to political censorship and budget cuts, libraries are being undermined by rapacious digital licensing agreements" op-ed by me:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing
"The individual who deserves most credit for its invention, the English clergyman and mathematician William Oughtred (1574-1660), came to believe the slide rule was dangerous since it removed the need for students to learn any underlying mathematical principles. ‘The true way of Art is not by Instruments, but by Demonstration,’ he complained. ‘It is a preposterous course of vulgar Teachers, to beginne with Instruments, and not with the Sciences, and so instead of Artists, to make their Schollers onely doers of tricks, and as it were jugllers.’"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n19/james-vincent/instrumental-tricks
"For nerds like me, the article has an important message about the field of behavioural economics. We’ll get to that. There’s also a broader question. The subscription business model has expanded from traditional products, such as newspapers and gym memberships to software, streaming media, vegetable boxes, shaving kits, makeup, clothes and support for creative types via Patreon or Substack. We should all be asking ourselves, if so many people are paying not to go to the gym, what else are we paying not to do?"
https://www.ft.com/content/b2622d99-4eaf-44f7-bbe2-4b61c716a06b
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A Racist #Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to Reclaim Their Story.
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The images are among the oldest known #photographs of enslaved people in America.
Tamara Lanier’s fight to gain control of them shows there is no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them.
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Online Now: APE1-dependent base excision repair of DNA photodimers in human cells https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00735-9?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
"Despite the high success of the current COVID-19 vaccines, there are several limitations, including their reduced effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 VoCs, short duration of protection, inability to induce a mucosal immune response to protect the airways, and high cost of production or distribution (11, 12). Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop the next generation of intranasal COVID-19 vaccines which induce durable and broadly protective immunity, both in the airways and systemically."
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Could better biomaterial sharing improve the scientific community?
@lab_rihn_th & @aharms485 draw on their experiences of sharing #biomaterials to discuss the advantages, challenges, and ways sharing could be more actively promoted and rewarded.
Thiago Carvalho
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Large body size differences across species in Hymenoptera. Here, an example of a small masked bee (~7 mm) next to a minute ant (<3 mm) on a flower of European sea rocket (Cakile maritima). https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120155371
And these two are both tiny next to a violet carpenter bee (Xylocopa violacea), measuring well over 40 mm in body length! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178658335 Similarly dramatic size differences exist within ant castes of the same species.
#iNatualist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #ants #entomology #insects #fossils #DevBio
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Wondering here out loud whether these vast differences in body size relate, at least metabolically, to the ability of hemimetabolous insects to hatch from the egg as tiny miniature versions of the adult, and then grow by moulting multiple times. I mean they must relate. These incremental steps, hormonally regulated, surely afford opportunities for evolution to meddle and trigger sexual maturation which, in needing to reallocate resources to reproduction, would concomitantly stop body growth. And it's true that smaller insects moult less times, and that moulting renders the animal helpless (and subject to e.g., predation by hornets: see this poor Mediterranean locust, Anacridium aegyptium https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91574142 ) for tens of minutes if not more.
#iNaturalist #Orthoptera #grasshopers #entomology #insects #DevBio #wasplove #wasps
"Como Cosimo, Calvino burló en cierto sentido la ley de la gravedad. Fue un escritor inatrapable que, parafraseando dos de sus metáforas más conocidas, supo, desde una poética levedad, degollar monstruosas medusas (Seis propuestas para el próximo milenio) y achicar el infierno gracias a la atención y al aprendizaje continuos (Las ciudades invisibles)."
https://elpais.com/babelia/2023-10-07/italo-calvino-el-escritor-que-achico-el-infierno.html
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RESEARCH SPECIALIST I
Moffitt Cancer Center
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-specialist-i-2/?feed_id=61411
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Tampa #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/research-specialist-i-2/?feed_id=61411
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👨🔬This #MethodMonday Lautaro Gándara and colleagues at the University of Buenos Aires reveal how to design FRET-based sensor experiments👩🔬 Read the full #OpenAccess🔓Methods & Techniques article here: https://journals.biologists.com/bio/article/12/10/bio060030/330770/Metabolic-FRET-sensors-in-intact-organs-Applying
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Don't miss the upcoming #developmentalbiology seminar series from Cambridge University sponsored by @Dev_journal. The first one of this term takes place this Friday, 13 Oct.
@SteveCooke I had the same problem last week. My sympathies.
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And now for something completely different,
"Estudos da Baía de Luanda I", aguarela sobre papel, Agosto 2023.
#aguarela #pintura #liaferreira #estudospintura #luanda #angola #baiadeluanda #baíadeluanda #angola🇦🇴 #angolaluanda #luandaangola🇦🇴
Thiago Carvalho
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Tumor-associated bacterial species suggested to occur intracellularly.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-023-00446-9
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Just Published!
Mechanisms of Chemoresistance in High-Grade Gliomas
This footnote has me curious:
"11: This 1997 documentary, my favorite of Morris’s, intertwines the stories of a lion tamer, a topiary gardener, an expert on naked mole rats and an M.I.T. roboticist."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/08/magazine/errol-morris-interview.html
Thiago Carvalho
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Vaccine Scientist Warns Antiscience Conspiracies Have Become a Deadly, Organized Movement
Vaccinologist Peter Hotez explains how the movement to oppose science and scientists has gained power
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'An aerial view shows a man riding a motorcycle in an empty section of Tefe Lake, which was affected by the drought of the Solimoes river, during a monitoring flight of Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, near Tefe, Amazonas state, Brazil, on October 4, 2023.'
Bruno Kelly/Reuters
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
