Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Looking for a new job? 🔎 Take a look at our weekly round-up of vacancies in ERC-funded teams.
A vast array of #PostDoc jobs and #PhD positions ready to be filled. 👇
https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/timelines/1399385761724649480 https://t.co/eFiTWyFVJL

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The 3rd edition of the ERC's Public Engagement with Research Awards competition is coming this autumn!
Up to 6 prizes of €10k to recognise ERC grantees who work to engage and communicate about their #EUfunded research.
👉https://erc.europa.eu/managing-your-project/public-engagement-research-award… #ERCengage #scicomm #award https://t.co/XeiqLgBInO

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1679064155540582403

How can we sustainably feed our growing population as the climate changes? This #PLOSBiology Perspective argues that by engineering #photosynthesis to increase carbon capture, we can mitigate #ClimateChange and increase food production. #plants
https://plos.io/43nhU3v

This morning, our steering committee member, Julieta Arancio @Cassandreces,
is speaking at the Open Data in Practice session of the CERN-NASA Open Science Summit.

You can learn more about some of the great work Julieta is doing here! https://julieta.aranc.io/projects/

A modest proposal:

'The purpose of this Perspective is to make clinicians and basic life scientists aware of αβTCR features that arose through ~400 My (million years) of jawed vertebrate evolution.'

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2215694120

If you like pina colada

"Flow cytometry for immune characterization in homogenized mouse brain: A systematic review"
#preprint #Immunology

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.06.547972v1?med=mas

'I had repeatedly heard, “Immunology will never be a therapy for cancer patients.” Then Jim Allison started presenting patients who were responding to anti–CTLA-4, and all of a sudden, we went from night to day.'
- Elizabeth Jaffee

#Immunology #immunotherapy

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/172246

'In his 20s, at the request of a gambling acquaintance who couldn’t break a losing run at dice, he undertook groundbreaking studies in probability theory. Before that, he invented the world’s first mechanical calculator – the snazzily named Pascaline.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/09/the-guardian-view-on-blaise-pascal-a-thinker-for-our-times

'Here we find that, in addition to suppressing appetite, GDF15 counteracts compensatory reductions in energy expenditure, eliciting greater weight loss and reductions in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) compared to caloric restriction alone.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06249-4

@cyrilpedia I heard the beginning of the first episode. It's chilling and yet another example how medical staff doesn't believe in our pain. Ever.

Research Assistant (Technician)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Science, Stanford University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/howard-hughes-medical-institute-carnegie-science-stanford-university-27778-research-assistant-technician/?feed_id=49496

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #genomics #evolution #plants...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/howard-hughes-medical-institute-carnegie-science-stanford-university-27778-research-assistant-technician/?feed_id=49496

Manumission, the legal process of granting freedom, presented another avenue for escape. However, unlike their Spanish and Portuguese counterparts, the British were hesitant to embrace manumission. They were reluctant to establish an intermediate social group between free white individuals and enslaved black people, limiting opportunities for legally obtaining freedom.

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#Histodons #History #BlackHistory #Politics #StillWeRise
#Slavery

'To address this problem, Cuzick et al. used the Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base), which curates knowledge from the text, tables and figures published in over 200 journals, as a case study. A framework was developed that could capture the many observable traits (phenotype annotations) for interactions and link them directly to the combination of genotypes involved in those interactions across multiple scales – ranging from microscopic to macroscopic. This demonstrated that it was possible to build a framework of software tools to enable curation of interactions between species in more detail than had been done before.'

https://elifesciences.org/digests/84658/all-in-one-place?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

'Here, we show in multiple cancer models that CXCR3+ Treg cells were increased in tumors compared with lymphoid tissues, exhibited an activated phenotype, and interacted preferentially with CXCL9-producing BATF3+ dendritic cells (DCs). Genetic ablation of CXCR3 in Treg cells disrupted DC1-Treg cell interactions and concomitantly increased DC-CD8+ T cell interactions.'

#Immunology #TumorImmunology #immunotherapy

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00260-1

'Muito mais importante do que defender a boa reputação das polícias é defender a segurança das pessoas e sobretudo a das minorias que são afetadas pelo ódio e pelo preconceito.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/10/politica/opiniao/espreitem-aqui-psd-arrimarse-chega-2056212

'Djuna has been publishing science fiction (and film criticism) in South Korea for over 25 years, without making any biographical revelations. “Counterweight,” their first full-length work to appear in English, in a crisp translation by Anton Hur, is an efficient, fast-paced cyberpunk story that is at its best when unpacking the ramifications of the ubiquitous “Worms,” neural implants that network users together and offer various kinds of augmentation, from internet-like access to information to much stranger mutations in perception and personality.'
#SciFi #sciencefiction

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/books/review/djuna-counterweight.html