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
Some of my favorite cover illustrations by Madalena were not selected by editors - like this one for Ilana Gabanyi & @mucida's 2016 paper "Neuro-immune Interactions Drive Tissue Programming in Intestinal Macrophages"
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Plant Science Research Weekly, March 31.
https://plantae.org/plant-science-research-weekly-march-31-2023/
1. Special feature: Harnessing crop diversity in PNAS
2. Seeing clearly: Plant anatomy through Katherine Esau’s microscopy lens
3. 100 important questions facing plant science
4. Light signaling in Physomitrium
5. Microtubules and cell division in maize
6. Photosynthetic orchid roots
7. Improving rice harvest index under drought
8. Optimizing short-format training
Antisense oligos & n=1 cases:
“A lot of clinicians might have a patient with a rare disease and want to help, but don’t have any idea how to approach the FDA. Where do you find a source of oligonucleotide for under $500,000? For a single patient?”
"I started to understand why so many great writers are obsessed with the repetition of a consistent work schedule: they are all trying to hit a number of words a day that may or may not contain something interesting in them."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/whats-the-point-of-reading-writing-by-humans
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Love this photograph by #Nigerian photographer and artist Asiko, of a #Yoruba #Egungun #Masquerade staged in Newcastle. Egungun is about the return of deceased ancestors. This one was staged, together with Asiko, by the group Moko Somõkõw.
"With growing attention on the remains of people held by museums and universities around the world, we outline ethical considerations that researchers working with human remains in anthropology must bear in mind."
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Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fell for one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century when he became convinced that the "fairy photographs", taken by two girls from Yorkshire in the 1920s, were real. Mary Losure explores: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies #AprilFools #hoax #photography #fairies
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So pretty.
Basis of the H2AK119 specificity of the Polycomb repressive deubiquitinase https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05841-y
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Check out our new Review discussing #Evolution in the light of #Epigenetics: Sabaris, Fitz-James and Cavalli, 2023, Epigenetic inheritance in adaptive evolution. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14992
Huge Kudos to Gonalo Sabaris and Max Fitz-James who wrote it wonderfully well !!
Not from Portugal, but somehow still good :)
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I will be hiring a postdoc (up to 2 years) for a project on transfer learning and dataset similarity, to work with us in Copenhagen 🇩🇰.
The official call will be online soon, but please reach out via email if you might be interested!
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The Green Dragontail Butterfly (Lamproptera meges) is a species of swallowtail butterfly found across Southeast Asia. The butterfly is known for its long, white-tipped tail, transparent forewings, and its quick and erratic flight patterns.
Video credit: Kazuo Unno
Source: https://www.goo.ne.jp/green/life/unno/movie/movie.html?movieid=1340715995
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'Cats on the Roof' - Toyohara Chikanobu, 1899.
#Caturday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt #cats #Japan
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Non-structural genes of novel lemur adenoviruses reveal codivergence of virus and host
https://academic.oup.com/ve/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ve/vead024/7087189?rss=1
I've used a lot of what comes after this colon in Haber's first paragraph in classes and even though he is (reluctantly) dropping some of them, you should consider going over these classics with students!
"One of the most frustrating aspects of teaching molecular genetics is deciding what not to teach. Twenty-five years ago, my course included a number of “had-to-teach” experiments that established the fundamental concepts about the nature of DNA and of gene regulation:"
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CAJAL advanced #neuroscience training program:
“#Connectomics from micro- to meso- and macro-scales”
When: 18 September - 6 October 2023
Where: Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Applications close soon: 3 April 2023
With Greg Jefferis, Claire Wyart, Moritz Helmstaedter, Casey Scheider-Mizell @csdashm, Chrystel Genoud, Hiroki Ueda, Jinny Kim, Alexandra Pacureanu @APacureanu and more:
https://cajal-training.org/on-site/connectomics/
This is very promising: Yasmine Belkaid is a great scientist and it is, to say the least, timely to recruit someone with a deep understanding of infectious disease - particularly of infectious diseases affecting disadvantaged communities - to run Pasteur.
A bit of good news for the weekend.
Strong opening:
"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."
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'Immunological adaptations occur in response to nutritional status: Undernutrition impairs immunity, causing inefficient responses to infections and vaccinations. Conversely, overnutrition favors chronic activation of both innate and adaptive immune cells, with subsequent (low-grade) systemic inflammation.'
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
