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
"(...) on the afternoon the Observer visited, the arrivals board showed that eight out of the next nine trains due into Cologne were behind schedule. The degree of lateness ranged from minutes to several hours, and a lengthy queue had formed at the entrance hall’s information desk."
Thiago Carvalho
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"Although a Nature survey suggests that scientists who use LLMs regularly are still in the minority, many expect that generative AI tools will become regular assistants for writing manuscripts, peer-review reports and grant applications."
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"Resumo: o poder do Hamas nasce da ocupação. Mas também do falhanço da AP perante o seu povo; do falhanço contínuo dos regimes árabes perante os palestinianos; e do falhanço internacional perante o mais longo e obsceno statu quo de um povo ocupado há décadas, apesar das resoluções da ONU. Que, sendo a máquina que permite a milhões de palestinianos viver desde 1949, é também, por isso, tragicamente, a que viabiliza o status quo."
https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/13/mundo/opiniao/maus-animais-2066721
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"Coincidently, the DNAm changes observed in aging, cancer, and proliferation share some notable patterns. In general, they tend to be characterized by gains in methylation at promoters—especially those marked by polycomb group (PcG) factor targets—and loss of methylation in intergenic regions and repetitive elements"
"Their core finding is that eliminating adrenoceptor β1 (ADRB1) from T cells, or globally blocking ADRB1 with beta-blockers, enhances the capacity of T cells to secrete effector molecules and cytokines and increases effector capacity in chronic infections and tumors."
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"Australia said on Sunday that it would fine X for failing to provide information about its efforts to combat child exploitation and that the social media service had told officials that its automated detection of abusive material declined after Elon Musk bought the company."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/technology/x-twitter-child-abuse-fine-australia.html
#elonmusk #twitter
The wrong end?
"We now call them B cells, the B standing for bursa of Fabricius. This is an organ, situated at the wrong end of birds, that mammals lack: we produce B cells from our bone marrow."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/october/bursectomised-chickens-and-other-breakthroughs
Thiago Carvalho
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Interdisciplinary Science
Emory University
Endowed postdoctoral fellowships in interdisciplinary science for recent PhDs! Come join us at Emory University in Atlanta!
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/emory-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-interdisciplinary-science/?feed_id=62287
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Atlanta...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/emory-university-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-in-interdisciplinary-science/?feed_id=62287
Thiago Carvalho
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You've probably heard of this atrocious BBC article that fallaciously claims that COVID is less lethal than the flu. (This old canard). I won't link to it, but here are a couple of studies you might find useful.
French study: patients with COVID-19 were 69% more likely to die during their hospital stay than were flu patients.
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(23)00289-X/fulltext
USVA study: Compared with hospitalization for influenza, hospitalization for COVID-19 was associated with a 61% higher risk of death
Conclusion: both COVID and the flu suck. Don't use one to minimize the other.
"While the prevailing theory was that small particles, called fomites, where responsible for the spread of yellow fever, another theory proposed that mosquitoes carrying a particular pathogen were responsible for the disease. Reed’s task was to determine, once and for all, what exactly caused yellow fever."
https://aeon.co/essays/should-we-celebrate-the-doctors-who-experiment-on-themselves
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Oxymoron jar. Pot by @hunchbacksociety
#Ceramics #stoneware #pottery #Handmade #Art #stoneware #artgallery #artmastodon
Quoi?
"In summary, defined effective anticancer activity of human effector CD8+ T cells with an exhausted-like phenotype, supporting clinical exploration of such cells in adoptive T cell therapies."
#Preprint #Immunology #immunotherapy
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(Image: Hokyoung Kim)
"Fire is a natural phenomenon; some species actually benefit from its effects and even those that don’t can be remarkably resilient in the face of flames. But as fires intensify, they are beginning to outstrip nature’s ability to bounce back. “Not all fires have the same impact,” said Morgan Tingley, an ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “These megafires are not good for ecosystems.”'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/science/climate-wildfires-ecosystems.html
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When I tell people children are being slaughtered, and they want to know which children before moving into outrage mode or justification mode - that mentality, that conditional humanity, is exactly the problem.
"This series of prints was created between 2017 & 2021.It consists of several aquatints of stages, doors, caves or forests, where figures have been inserted through the technique of chine-collé, and colours added through viscosity printing. "
#Prints #Printmaking #Aquatint #Handmade #ArtGallery #artmastodon
Booooo
"QI has located no evidence for the existence of this quotation in the 1860s, 1870s, or 1880s. The earliest citation known to QI appeared in an 1893 text titled “Verbum Dei: The Yale Lectures on Preaching”"
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/
@MarkHanson Yeah, this anecdote is great - it features in 11 out of 10 histories of peer review :)
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@cyrilpedia fun Einstein story about how he was once peer-reviewed (not with his consent!) in 1937, and retracted the submission indignantly rather than answer the queries (and lots happened after that also, Einstein was 'wrong').
A tale of peer review norms, of benefits, and arguably highlights how in this instance, those benefits were an exception to a system that otherwise let ideas be the sole ideas of the authors.
#PeerReview #AcademicChatter
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/58/9/43/399405/Einstein-Versus-the-Physical-Review-A-great
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
