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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Right wing media is again demonizing migrants and refugees for "having cell phones." Look ya'll—never take seriously those who ridicule migrants & refugees for having a smartphone or laptop.
“If they’re refugees how did they get an iPhone???”
Because they’re trying to escape violence, not the 1700s, genius. If you think basic tech access is luxury, survive a month without it.
"First, they looked in the genes for clues, and genetic scans showed that inflammation genes were dialled down throughout multiple organs. This was a good lead as inflammation is a risk factor for age-related diseases such as cancer, arthritis and heart disease. To double-check, they took blood samples to look for signs of inflammation; there were fewer pro-inflammatory molecules in the blood of mice with heavy hyaluronan. Finally, they did a third test, by injecting a bacterial protein that causes inflammation and checking how the mice reacted. There was less inflammation in their tissues, and fewer pro-inflammatory chemicals in their blood. This may be naked mole rats’ secret of youth: this thick hyaluronan coating may protect cells from inflammation, so they live longer and avoid disease."
'Taken together, we report on mRNA vaccines targeting P. vivax and demonstrate that Pvs25 mRNA–LNP outperformed an adjuvanted Pvs25 protein vaccine suggesting that it is a promising candidate for further testing in non-human primates.'
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Waves of the signalling molecule cAMP spread through a film of #Dictyostelium cells demonstrating a positive feedback loop that demonstrates how multicellular structures transmit information over long ranges. #12DaysOfeLife https://elifesciences.org/articles/83796?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_12days
"The Chinchorro culture began mummifying their dead in what is now southern Peru and northern Chile around 6000 bce, making South America’s earliest mummified bodies two thousand years older than those of Egypt."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n01/erin-l.-thompson/even-the-eyelashes
Fake news BC
"En plein Sénat, Caton laisse échapper quelques figues gorgées de jus, comme tombées par mégarde des plis de sa toge. Lorsque ses collègues s'extasient, Caton jure qu'il les ramène de Carthage –et que si elles sont si appétissantes, c'est parce que l'ennemie jurée n'est qu'à trois jours de Rome. Caton a menti: la traversée prend au mieux six jours et il y a toutes les chances que les fameuses figues soient venues de ses propres plantations. Mais qu'importe: le souvenir d'Hannibal est ravivé. Dans le doute, il faut raser Carthage."
https://www.slate.fr/culture/histoires-sans-fin/carthage-incendie-scipion-emilien-rome-resistance
@ntoohm All of the above, in different mixes for different sites/different times of even the same tumor. And dont forget the wild card: antigen receptor repertoire bingo.
Colograph by @madparreira.bsky.social
The works presented here are created with alternative materials rather than etched on copper #art #print #printmaking #colograph #artgallery #hadmade #artmastodon
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Boreal Caribou Habitat Restoration
“The caribou, called medzih in Dene, have been in relationship with members of Fort Nelson First Nation for thousands of years, providing not only sustenance but also hides for making rope, drums and clothing. But the nation voluntarily stopped hunting medzih in the 1980s, implementing a moratorium when community members noticed the animals were becoming scarce. Today, boreal caribou are listed as a threatened species in Canada”
#Canada
https://thenarwhal.ca/boreal-caribou-habitat-restoration/
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Thiago Carvalho
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"Using a dataset representing disease and phenotype co-occurrence in social media text, we employ semantic techniques to identify phenotype associations for a set of common and rare diseases, constituting a phenotype model for those diseases that represents the public perspective"
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.19.23300163v1
@ntoohm an evil onion :)
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A Christmas Message from the President of Ireland
"...may I express my gratitude to the migrants who now call Ireland their home. Their presence enriches our culture, contributes to our society, bringing as they do experiences, traditions, and perspectives that make us stronger as a nation.'
http://telescoper.blog/2023/12/24/a-christmas-message-from-the-president-of-ireland/
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"Venice was a city of printers and readers. In his World of Aldus Manutius, Martin Lowry made a rough guess that, in 1500, Venetian presses produced twenty books per member of the city’s population. There were more printshops – and more booksellers, stationers, bookbinders – in Venice than anywhere else in Europe: twice as many editions were printed there than in Paris, its closest rival."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n24/erin-maglaque/case-endings-and-calamity
'But I’m not talking about a factual mistakes as much as I’m talking about a mistake we often make when thinking about history. We fail to think of historical events as developing over time. This has been an obsession for my entire writing life. I’ve always wanted to know about the life that happens between dates in a history book.'
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Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content.
In a scathing 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were supportive of Palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report
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When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Hitler and Mussolini went all-in backing Franco’s Nationalists but the big democratic powers, England and France, offered the democratically elected Republicans tepid support because they were wary of socialists and trade unionists being part of the coalition.
Their half-hearted defense of democracy emboldened the fascists and contributed to the outbreak of WWII.
Anyway, I think about this whenever I encounter anti-anti-Trump liberals. #fascism #magacoup
Thiago Carvalho
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Sex-Specific DNA-Replication In The Early Mammalian Embryo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.22.572993v1?med=mas
"Suppressive activity is enriched among CD4+ Tconv cells marked by expression of C-C motif receptor 8 (CCR8), which are found in mouse and human tumors. Upon Treg cell depletion, CCR8+ Tconv cells undergo systemic and intratumoral activation and expansion, and mediate IL-10–dependent suppression of antitumor immunity."
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
