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
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"Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is now requiring masks in its hospital and outpatient clinical areas due to increasing Covid-19 infection rates and in anticipation of cold and flu season."
State data show that positive tests and hospitalizations have been ticking up – a “COVID creep,”
"COVID creep"🤦♂️
"For more than a decade, Twitter was an absolutely key resource for understanding major world events and disasters in real time. Open-source reporters and investigators pieced together the picture on the ground from primary sources and verified content. I’m calling it Twitter in this instance, because that was then. X is something different, although I’m sure we’re all on tenterhooks for its vaunted transformation into the everything app/surveillance capitalism dreamscape humanity deserves."
“His behaviour on the platform — he sets the tone from the top — he’s saying it’s OK to spread conspiracy theories as he does it himself,” said Kayla Gogarty, research director at left-leaning non-profit Media Matters. “This is the first big test for Musk’s version of X. The platform has failed this test.”
https://www.ft.com/content/ca3e08ee-3167-464a-a1d3-677a59387c71?sharetype=blocked
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Group Leader position at the #MRCLMB in #connectomics: join us!
https://mrc.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/appcentre-1/candidate/postings/2485
Apply by November 16th, 2023.
Areas of particular interest include developing and applying high-density image acquisition methods (electron, X-ray, light) to determine the structure, connectivity and function of intact nervous systems at synaptic resolution; bringing brain-scale connectomics to additional species (including vertebrates); experimental approaches that leverage connectomes to understand brain function; and computational analyses essential for research across these areas.
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Excellent piece from summarising findings from the #COVIDVoices report on the detrimental impacts of shielding and the need for involvement of clinically vulnerable people in pandemic planning and readiness https://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2023/10/out-of-mind-what-policymakers-should-learn-from-those-who-shielded-from-covid-19/
'These publicly accessible databases aim to provide an overview of all animal studies (including those that are ongoing and work that may remain unpublished) to increase transparency and reduce unnecessary duplication of experiments. Unfortunately, usage to date has been low, with only a few hundred entries across each registry [7]. As a potential solution, we propose integrating preclinical registration within the animal use protocol (AUP) review process'
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002293
"Nobel announcement disagreements often focus on whether the recipients deserved it, or not. But the 2023 Medicine and Physiology prize has received near universal applause: the science that it rewards has already saved the lives of many millions, and (maybe most importantly) has transformed how we think about emerging infectious diseases and other diseases. But the real intrigue surrounds its backstory. Karikó was forced to retire from her position at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. The much-discussed reasons are familiar villains: the inability to secure major grant funding from the large agencies, and other markers of success in the biomedicine machine."
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North Carolina is creating a secret police force
The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations, or “Gov Ops” or “ gestapo” is chaired by Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger
It gives the state authority to investigate “possible instances of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, mismanagement, waste, abuse, or illegal conduct.”
In a related story: white sheets are sold out at the local Walmart
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986976-2023-appropriations-act-final
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Does #CRISPR hold an answer to protecting poultry — and the people who work with poultry — from #birdflu viruses? @STAT's Drew Joseph explores. https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/10/to-protect-chickens-from-bird-flu-researchers-try-to-crispr-in-immunity/
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What happened behind the scenes of the LMU Open Research Hybrid Summer School 2023? How was the programme put together, what didactic strategies were used to suit the hybrid format, etc?
Read my advice for future events in the ZBW Open Science Magazine: https://open-science-future.zbw.eu/en/didactics-meets-openness/
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X now lets users block unverified accounts from replying to their posts, potentially limiting how the community can push back on misinformation (Richard Lawler/The Verge) http://www.techmeme.com/231010/p5?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#a231010p5
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Diversity matters – extending sound intensity coding by inner hair cells via heterogeneous synapses
New Review by Lina María Jaime Tobón, Tobias Moser et al
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If you know (even distantly) people who live in or have family in Palestine* or Israel*, please check on them. People who didn't live through such situations might not realise how important it is to have people check on you and to know that your life still has value to the outside world.
* I used a randomiser for the order, don't read anything by it.
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In her #JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Anuradha Batabyal tells us how she proposes a generalized experimental framework in her Commentary to answer some of the most important biological questions and how she hopes that we will understand the impact of urbanisation on personality in the future
#comparativephysiology #zoology #biology
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/19/jeb246728/330708
'Here’s what infectious disease experts want you to know about some of the most common adult and pediatric viruses (and one bacterial infection): their symptoms, how they spread, how to treat them and when you (or your child) can re-enter society.'
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/06/well/live/contagious-cold-flu-virus-illness.html
"Desde hace tiempo, las principales zonas de cultivo europeas han visto reducir tanto sus cosechas como la calidad del lúpulo por culpa del trastorno climático. Proyectado hacia el futuro, el trabajo señala a las plantaciones de España y otros países del sur de Europa como las más afectadas por el calentamiento."
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A few choice highlights below.
Fun fact: my paper on understanding natural selection and avoiding misconceptions is cited in that first line.
https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-009-0128-1
"Aortic aneurysms occur six times more often in men than women. But if a woman does have one, it’s more likely to burst, she’s less likely to get effective treatment and more likely to die. These outcomes are a tangle of sex (influenced by chromosomes, physiology and hormones) and gender (how we identify, behave in our environment and interact with one another). Why is our society calibrated for men so that women receive substandard medical care? And why are researchers not studying half the world’s population who are excellent at not getting aneurysms?"
"Unexpectedly, approximately 15% of the steady state population of hTR has a CR4/5 conformation lacking features required for hTERT binding. Mutagenesis demonstrates that stabilization of the alternative CR4/5 conformation is detrimental to telomerase assembly and activity. We propose that this misfolded portion of the cellular hTR pool is either slowly refolded or degraded."
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New blog post just dropped!
"Assembly theory is cool... but doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does."
http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/assembly-theory-is-cool
reviewing this recent Nature paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
