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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We moved to science mastodon.
@ASCBiology@sciencemastodon.com
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I always wondered how Bell Labs, a private lab, could be so successful and win 9 (!) Nobel Prizes. The answer seems to be a continuous stream of funding and an environment that valued longterm research goals and scientific discovery over progress reports.
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I am a second-year PhD student at Cambridge Uni in mathematical #epidemiology. In particular, I am interested in #virus #evolution during #epidemics
I also did my undergrad and my master's in applied #maths and theoretical physics at Cambridge, but I'm from Madrid.
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Do you use a lot of #genomic data in your research or are you considering getting a direct-to-consumer #WholeGenomeSequencing kit for the holidays? Here's a really great review from #NatureReviewsGenetics that covers the technological and legal protections for genomic data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41576-022-00455-y #science #medicine #genetics #privacy #genome #WGS
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In 1952 Rosalind Franklin & Raymond Gosling collected their famous diffraction pattern of #DNA, photo 51.
But did you know that Elwyn Beighton, in #Leeds produced a strikingly similar image the year before? For some reason his boss, Bill Astbury wasn't interested & so they never published the work.
#HistSci #Chemistry #Chemiverse #science
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369848610001111?via%3Dihub
The Moore's Law scrolls:
'In 2005, realizing they lacked an original copy of “Cramming,” Intel executives offered $10,000 on eBay for a mint copy of the relevant issue of Electronics. At last, an engineer in Surrey, UK, found one under his floorboards. The enchanted pages now sit in climate-controlled splendor in Intel’s museum—the tech world’s Book of Kells.'
'For Volker Höffer, who directs the Stasi archive in Rostock, those who consulted their files almost always found it a liberating experience – especially if they had been persecuted as a result of Stasi spying. “In numerous conversations, those affected told me that they could now dissolve dark holes within themselves,” he says. But he also saw it as a necessary step for Germany as a whole, an attempt to “extract the eternal essence of dictatorships and to develop from it a serum against future ones”.
'However, the study of conserved regions excludes functional elements that descended from previously neutral regions. Here, we demonstrate that the fastest-evolved regions of the human genome, which we term “human ancestor quickly evolved regions” (HAQERs), rapidly diverged in an episodic burst of directional positive selection prior to the human-Neanderthal split, before transitioning to constraint within hominins.'
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Job: Technical & Executive Assistant to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre CEO - Cambridge, UK
#Job #NGO #Conservation #biodiversity #Cambridge #UK
Technical and Executive Assistant to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (#WCMC) CEO
https://www.unep-wcmc.org/en/careers/technical-and-executive-assistant-ad1296b
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Great article on #COVID rapid antigen #testing and #hospitalization and community #transmission in the #BMJ. Bottom line: Large scale asymptomatic rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 could help reduce transmission and prevent hospital admissions. #publichealth #causalinference #epidemiology
@martinho_lab But yes, it does create a problem for natural selection, pangenesis being really what you would expect a Lamarckist to come up with.
@martinho_lab I think he didn't so much support as develop his own theory of pangenesis.
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🔖 Statistical code in a high-impact medical journal
A journal started asking authors to submit code with their manuscripts. They then analysed the next 314 papers accepted
87% denied using code, even when publishing substantial statistical analysis
10% used code but refused to share it with the journal
For the few that provided code, none scored even moderately on basic quality criteria
Assel & Vickers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705117/
#MedMastodon
#OpenScience
#ResearchWaste
#doi:10.7326/M17-2863
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Wow! Structure of the divisome core complex by Löwe lab. Essential reading for bacterial cell biologists https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.21.517367v1
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I have a new vacancy in my team for cryoEM scientist interested in developing cryoFIB milling approaches and cellular cryoET. As always, we will be pushing the boundaries with cryoET #teamtomo. Position is based at Oxford, UK. Please help spread the word. https://jobs.thermofisher.com/i/global/en/job/222364BR/Applications-Scientist-Cryo-Tomography
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I'm still finding my feet here, so it feels right to share with you the first #JournalCover I ever got with my #sciart
I was a #postdoc at the time and I had 1 evening to produce something around the idea that virulence in #bacteria is often 'all about the #phage ... '
A lucky break for me!
#MastoArt #Introduction
“I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse and misrepresentation which, unless I am greatly mistaken, is in store for you,” Huxley had written Darwin just before the publication of “The Origin.” “I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/how-the-huxleys-electrified-evolution
"Takei is about to star in the British production of the musical Allegiance, inspired by his childhood as one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans forced into internment camps after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Now a youthful 85, he says it remains the defining experience of his life – one that shaped him as an actor and an activist."
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Very happy to see this collaboration with Grisha Zolotarov and the Rajewsky Lab (MDC Berlin) out in Science Advances
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RT @MarcGozlan
Covid-19 : comment Omicron a-t-il évolué depuis son émergence il y a un an ? À lire sur 'Réalités Biomédicales' https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/realitesbiomedicales/2022/11/28/covid-19-comment-omicron-a-t-il-evolue-depuis-son-emergence-il-y-a-un-an/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
