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
Faites vos jeux:
'I would love to see how the French respond to this book, which so far has only been published in English. Will they resent his American presumption to explain France? Or will they acknowledge that Mr. Bonné, like a modern-day Tocqueville, has presented an insightful mirror to their culture?'
This was a great conversation with Pavel Tomancak & @tlemberger for the EMBO Podcast.
Everything from the early days of open science to tips on classic Czech science fiction.
#EMBOPodcast
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Remember that abysmal attempt at creating a fake paper detector that #Science magazine trumpeted? The one that just looked to see if you used your institutional email address, had international collaborators, and were (not) affiliated with a hospital?
The one that instantiated the authors biases and then they turned around and used as evidence for those biases?
Science has just published the letter that Brandon Ogbunugafor and I wrote.
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I am very skeptical of that claim, and eLife assesses the evidence as incomplete.
When earlier work along similar by some of these authors was published 6 years ago, I expressed my doubts here:
https://neherlab.org/201706_mito_heat.html
most of these concerns still stand.
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Today 25 years ago the #Spanish government sent their police to close the #Basque #newspaper #Egin. They arrested many journalists, put them in jail, and in 2009 a Spanish court concluded that no illicit activity was engaged by the newspaper and radio station Egin. However, nothing happened to anyone involved in this human rights violation, be it judges, politicians or police.
Paper from the Vosshall lab on why some people are mosquito attractors
"Although CO2 and heat are generic stimuli that signify a living warm-blooded animal, skin odor provides information about whether the target is a human or non-human animal (McBride et al., 2014; Rose et al., 2020; Zhao et al., 2022). It is well-documented that mosquitoes are more strongly attracted to some humans than others"
' In this Perspective, we outline fairness in machine learning through the lens of healthcare, and discuss how algorithmic biases (in data acquisition, genetic variation and intra-observer labelling variability, in particular) arise in clinical workflows and the resulting healthcare disparities'
'The methods used in the German study owed a debt to the British ethnologist John Beddoe, whose “index of nigrescence” concluded that Jews were “100 per cent” Negro. Figures such as Beddoe are key to Tudor Parfitt’s latest book Hybrid Hate, which details the strange ways that race theorists developed modern modes of anti-black racism and antisemitism.'
https://www.ft.com/content/03aad35c-2d7e-41a2-8592-4fe44b5ca400
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What makes certain individuals more susceptible to #disinformation? 🌐
By looking into personality traits and the inner workings of #socialmedia, @mjoanasa is workings on a tool that will audit parts of the internet to detect disinformation.
👉 https://bit.ly/3PyLUGe
@lip_pt https://t.co/pdhv6JTIrF
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1674674207840686084
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Mitochondria are at least 15 °C hotter than their external environment in living cells.
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'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.
#Book #Books #bookworm #Bookshelf #reader #bookstodon
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Fantastic to see the full list of #OpenScience Fund grantees.
Lots of exciting stuff to look forward to!
https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-science-fund-2023-awarded-grants
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'Latin America is taking on a pioneering role in this. In Latin America, scientific outputs are considered a public good. Free-to-publish and free-to-read cooperative publishing is supported by non-commercial and publicly funded infrastructure. Ninety-five per cent of Latin American journals are diamond open access: community-driven and collaborative platforms with no article processing charges. Their example shows us that research is a more global and diverse enterprise than is typically acknowledged. By including diverse voices, they contribute substantially to the academic landscape and the accessibility and dissemination of research3. Unfortunately, these journals tend to be excluded by indexing systems, which causes science published outside of the Global North to not receive the attention that it deserves.'
'The most commonly believed falsehoods were that the vaccine was developed too fast and that there was not enough information about whether the vaccine was effective or not. Educational campaigns targeted at misinformation and tailored to suit each country are recommended to build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and reduce hesitancy.'
https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0000713
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Twitter is paying high profile far right content creators, including Andrew Tate, thousands of dollars for posting to the app https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
'My father's advice when I left Canada for New York was simple: "Never underestimate the other person's insecurity." This was excellent counsel, and what trouble I would get into came mostly from forgetting it.'
- Adam Gopnik, At the Strangers' Gate.
#Book #Books #bookworm #Bookshelf #reader #bookstodon
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Stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #ceramics #art #artgallery #handmade #stoneware #artmastodon
https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety
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'Some of the big technology companies, which have a poor reputation for use of personal data, are also training specialist generative AI models for the healthcare sector. Google is trialling the medical chatbot Med-PaLM 2, which provides expert advice to doctors, at the Mayo Clinic in the US. Google is rightly cautious about releasing this model more widely before its potential flaws are fixed.'
https://www.ft.com/content/d4002272-bed3-4339-ab5f-e657d29291f0
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
