Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

This Sunday is #InterationalDayofWomanandGirlsinScience 🎉

We want to celebrate the fantastic #WomenInScience in our Editor team and thank them for their dedication to DMM!

From left to right:
Liz Patton #UniversityOfEdinburgh
Elaine Mardis #NationwideChildrensHospital
Sally Dunwoodie #VictorChangInstitute
Vivian Li @thecrick
Karen Liu #KingsCollegeLondon
Monica Justice #SickKidsToronoto
Sumana Sanyal #Dunn_School #uniofoxford

#WomeninSTEM

@WhatisBiotechnology 30 years ago today. A variant of this photograph of Howard Temin at his microscope has been hanging in my office for nearly that long. He was my thesis advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the mid-80s.

On this day in 1994 Howard Temin died, won 1975 Nobel Prize for work on tumour viruses #NobelPrize #ThisDayInBiotech

Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/08/1230236546/famous-climate-scientist-michael-mann-wins-his-defamation-case

> Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, has been awarded more than $1 million in a case more than a decade in the making.

#science #climatechange

"The wrong Amazon is burning"
Sticker spotted in Anchorage, Alaska

"Any AI system is defined by its reliance on the use of data from the past to make decisions about the future.

"But the government signaled it is concerned that the technology’s use by insurers is allowing them to bend the future to their own benefit."

via @STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/07/government-warns-medicare-advantage-insurers-not-to-deny-care-based-on-ai/

#AI #health #healthcare #medicine #MA #Medicare #insurance #healthinsurance

Can exercise help treat long Covid?
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/07/can-exercise-help-treat-long-covid-new-study-finds-patients-improve-with-self-paced-approach/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

"Compared with multivalent viral vaccines, we envision that a single protein-based antigen that protects against all three orthoebolavirus species that have caused previous outbreaks represents a more attractive alternative, which would be easier to manufacture and store than viral vaccines and could enable widespread vaccination strategies beyond ring vaccination."
#Immunology #Vaccine #Ebola

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316960121

Liberte, egalite, fraternite
#WinesOfMastodon

"All the large platforms, bar X, have signed up to a code of conduct to help them accelerate and build their internal procedures in order to comply with the law.

Musk’s platform is currently under formal investigation over alleged failure to comply with the new law."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/08/tucker-carlson-interview-with-putin-to-test-eu-law-regulating-tech-companies

Postdoc in the Cardiovascular Research Institute, at UCSF (Fidler Lab)

UCSF

The Fidler lab at UCSF  is recruiting postdoctoral scientists to lead research projects centered on atherosclerosis and thrombosis.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-scientist/?feed_id=71245

#atherosclerosis #cardiovascular #Clonal_Hematopoiesis #crispr #hematopoiesis #Macrophage #Scienc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-scientist/?feed_id=71245

Amazon 'to cut' hundreds of healthcare jobs across its One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy units

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/amazon-reportedly-cut-hundreds-healthcare-jobs

#healthcare #pharma #pharmacy #Amazon #OneMedical #AmazonPharmacy

Excellent news! Peer Community Journal is now indexed in the Jisc SherpaRomeo database that carefully analyses journals and publishers' #openaccess policies from around the world 🔓https://beta.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/44637

At our SEB 2024 scicom workshop we will show you how to write a concise, effective and engaging piece of science writing to promote your research to a broad audience beyond your peers

Register now. Deadline: 30 April 2024

https://www.sebiology.org/events/seb-conference-prague-2024/sessions-2024/workshops.html

Labour is claiming that £28 billion of investment in climate change a year is not possible. But that’s not true. That’s Starmer’s choice. https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/02/09/labour-is-claiming-that-28-billion-of-investment-in-climate-change-a-year-is-not-possible-but-thats-not-true-thats-starmers-choice/. All the money and much more that Labour needs to spend on climate change is readily available to it. In this post, I show how in some detail. In that case, Labour's claim of unaffordability and the situation having changed does not stack. It's Starmer's choice not to do this.