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
“Que generosos somos, ao abdicar de 1400 milhões de euros, para que esta gente endinheirada possa adquirir o seu apartamento de luxo, impondo preços de luxo nas cidades onde as pessoas já não podem viver”
"These inequalities are compounded by how various neuroimaging techniques don’t serve Black patients well. Electroencephalography (EEG), which monitors electrical signals that emanate from the brain, is not optimized for Black hair, so participants may have to shave their heads or be excluded from studies completely. Increasingly popular light-based techniques, such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), have not been corrected for those with higher melanin contents in their skin, which can lead to confounding or less accurate results. This has also been seen with pulse oximetry, a measure of oxygen saturation within your blood, a vital parameter in bedside patient monitoring."
"Goitre was embarrassing, ugly and a subject for humour, so Eggenberger began his presentation with the image of the Madonna from Albrecht Dürer’s Dresden Altarpiece: unimpeachable, unmockable and exhibiting, he claimed, an obvious goitre."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
We are finally on Mastodon, time for a little #introduction 👋 !
Brian is a #FOSS simulator for biological #SpikingNeuralNetworks, for research in #ComputationalNeuroscience and beyond. It makes it easy to go from a high-level model description in Python, based on mathematical equations and physical units, to a simulation running efficiently on the CPU or GPU.
We have a friendly community and extensive documentation, links to everything on our homepage: https://briansimulator.org
This account will mostly announce news (releases, other notable events), but we're also looking forward to discussing with y'all 💬
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Just to add to previous toot- this is a flagrant example of the type of behaviour that went on behind the scenes in the cabinet. A catastrophic decision made without science input for which evidence it was damaging was supressed.
"Trump intends to use the trial to boost his candidacy and discredit the American justice system as corrupt — and the media outlets, serving their own interests, will help him do it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
“A tour de force. Greg Grandin exposes Kissinger's vaunted approach to statecraft as little more than compulsive activism, typically relying on the threat or use of force, ignorant of history, devoid of any moral or ethical component, and discounting serious analysis in favor of intuition. Some realism. The field of Kissinger studies begins here, with this book.”―Andrew J. Bacevich
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/henry-kissinger-obituary/
"Here, Zonozi et al. characterized the T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection in individuals lacking B cells due to treatment with rituximab or due to a primary immunodeficiency. Not only were virus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells elicited by both infection and vaccination, but the T cells exhibited greater reactivity and proliferative capacity as compared with controls."
#covid19 #covid #Immunology
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adh4529#supplementary-materials
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
#PlantScience Research Weekly Dec 1
https://plantae.org/plant-science-research-weekly-december-1-2023/
*Marchantia parental imprinting
*Exocyst complex target for pathogen effectors
*CLAVATA signals + plant-environment interactions
*Triticeae inflorescence architecture & yields
*RALF4 prevents pollen tubes from growing crazy;
*Ammonia borane & branching;
*Thermostable actin-depolymerizing factors in pollen;
*Subsidiary cells mediate stomatal closure;
*Novel fern insecticidal proteins;
*Graduate student mentorship to diversify biology
"Most of all, though, the Saleh family worry about their olives. It is close to the end of the traditional harvest season and they, like villagers across the West Bank, have been unable to reach most of their trees."
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'In December, after Nixon complained that American aerial bombardment up to that point was inadequate, Kissinger passed along an order for “a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia.” Ignoring the distinction between civilian and military targets, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?”'
'O principal obstáculo a um ensino de qualidade é, para os professores, o tempo atribuído à História nas matrizes curriculares (58%). Em Portugal, a redução da carga lectiva a esta disciplina acentuou-se a partir de 2018, com a implementação da flexibilidade curricular. Um inquérito realizado, em 2021, pela Associação de Professores de História mostrou que, em mais de metade das escolas, a carga horária reservada para a disciplina, no 3.º ciclo, era menos de metade do tempo recomendado.'
'In December, after Nixon complained that American aerial bombardment up to that point was inadequate, Kissinger passed along an order for “a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia.” Ignoring the distinction between civilian and military targets, Kissinger said, “Anything that flies on anything that moves. You got that?”'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'It is 1961 and Gabriel García Márquez has just arrived in Mexico City, penniless but full of literary ambition, trying desperately to work on a new novel. One day, he is sitting in the legendary Café La Habana, where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were said to have plotted the Cuban Revolution. Julio Cortázar walks in, carrying a copy of Juan Rulfo’s novel “Pedro Páramo.” With a swift gesture, as if he’s dealing cards, Cortázar throws the book on García Márquez’s table. “Tenga, pa que aprenda,” he says. “Read this and learn.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/books/review/pedro-paramo-juan-rulfo.html
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
After INFECTION with SARS-COV-2, viruses were found in the TUMOR tissues and acquired various MUTATIONS, predominantly in the SPIKE 😨
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1280686
Establishment of a long-term replication model using lung cancer in mice
'Kissinger meant that there must never be an example of a country in America’s sphere of influence delivering socialism through the ballot. “Henry saw Allende as being a far more serious threat than Castro,” Kissinger staffer Morris told Hersh. “Allende was a living example of democratic social reform in Latin America.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
A Modest Proposal
For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
by Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 is available as an audio book via @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/synapseml_gutenberg_a_modest_proposal_by_jonathan_swift
"Ainda em setembro, quando foi confirmada a presença dos mosquitos Aedes Albopictus na região de Lisboa, a Direção-Geral da Saúde (DGS) criou uma taskforce para monitorizar a evolução do inseto, juntando vários especialistas e reforçando a vigilância destas espécies em todo o país."
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
In anticipation of #cellbio2023 we have put together a special collection, comprising articles from the labs of Cell Bio 2023 speakers. Read Research and Review-type articles, as well as Interviews with cell scientists to watch
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/cellbio-2023
"Across the U.S., roughly 6 million adults 65 and over have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two thirds of them are women — a discrepancy that researchers have long attributed to genetics and women’s longer life spans, among other reasons. But there is growing consensus that menopause may also be an important risk factor for the development of dementia later in life."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/well/mind/menopause-dementia-risk-estrogen.html
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
