Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track - Biology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-alabama-at-birmingham-27778-assistant-professor-tenure-track-bi...
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Detection of alternative DNA structures and its implications for human disease https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00654-8?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The pro-European win in Warsaw brings hope for improved relations between Germany and Poland.

Poland's change of political direction following its parliamentary elections has raised hopes of appeasement with Germany on the sensitive issues of war reparations, relations with Russia and migration policy.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/germany/article/2023/10/22/the-pro-european-win-in-warsaw-brings-hope-for-improved-relations-between-germany-and-poland_6194379_146.html

#Poland #Germany #Politics

We’re hiring an Ocean Biogeochemistry Modeling Lead at [C]Worthy to help build oceanographic modeling and data-integration tools for ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) applications. The pay is $150,000–190,000 a year. Come work with us!

https://jobs.lever.co/convergentresearch/83f20f1c-fd42-4cbc-80ed-e7bf5f441b10

"At the same time, wealthy nations have, for centuries, been extracting natural resources from low- and middle-income countries and pocketing the proceeds. Scientific data, unfortunately, have been among those resources."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03239-4

"The people in power are still doubling down on everything that brought us here. They are still outsourcing the pandemic response to the rapacious private healthcare industry. They are still implying that the Covid dead have only themselves to blame—after all, “we have the tools.” They are still insisting that the fault must not be in our stars but in ourselves, transforming an issue of public health into one of personal responsibility."

@gregggonsalves

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-healthcare-policies-permanent/

"A tube-nosed fruit bat under black light. A new survey found 125 mammals with fluorescent features.
Credit: Linda Reinhold"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/science/glowing-fluorescent-mammals-ultra-violet.html

"I also want to inspire young people to recognize the importance and wonder of #immunology, and to encourage early career researchers to be resilient when things don’t go to plan."

https://www.embo.org/people/delivering-the-right-message/

Staff/faculty positions at SBME, UBC in Pluripotent Stem Cell, Lung Differe

The University of British Columbia

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-university-of-british-columbia-27778-staff-faculty-positions-at-sbme-ubc-in-pluripotent-stem-cell-lung-differe/?feed_id=62991

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research ...
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Incredible find in an island that holds so many amazing preserved historic relics. Love Orkney and will definitely check the latest excavations on my next visit

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/21/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Almost immediately after the paper’s publication, two anonymous commenters on PubPeer, a forum for discussing peer-reviewed articles, pointed out repeated numerical values in the spreadsheets from a supplementary file included with the article."
#Neuroscience #ResearchIntegrity

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/nobel-laureates-study-earns-expression-of-concern-over-data-integrity-issues/

"In this study, we introduce a database-integrated genome screening (DIGS) approach to investigating the dark genome in silico, focusing on endogenous viral elements found within vertebrate genomes."
#Preprint #Genomics

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.17.562709v1

"Un prestigioso investigador español de la enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob murió el año pasado tras experimentar síntomas compatibles con esta dolencia letal, según ha podido saber EL PAÍS por múltiples fuentes de las tres instituciones implicadas."

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-10-19/abierta-una-investigacion-tras-la-muerte-de-un-cientifico-que-estudiaba-una-enfermedad-letal-transmisible-en-barcelona.html

"The emphasis on early-career women, especially in higher-prestige and STEM departments, has provided a deep, but narrow understanding of gendered retention: Women assistant professors in STEM make up just 15% of all tenure-track and tenured women at PhD-granting institutions in the U.S. (1), and those at higher-prestige institutions comprise an even smaller share"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

"No quiero idealizar el Twitter anterior a Musk. Siempre hubo mucha desinformación y comportamiento antisocial en la plataforma. Hace tiempo que dejé de leer las respuestas de la gente a la que no sigo, en parte porque cualquiera con un gran número de seguidores recibía demasiadas respuestas como para seguirle el ritmo, pero también porque la hostilidad ad hominem de muchos analistas llegaba a ser cansina. Aun así, Twitter, utilizado con cuidado, era muy útil, especialmente cuando se producían acontecimientos importantes."

https://elpais.com/economia/negocios/2023-10-21/sobrevivira-twitter-perdon-x-a-elon-musk.html

Earlier: “Black women stand to be disproportionately impacted by the court’s egregious assault on basic human rights.”

When it comes to infant mortality, a new study shows the results are sadly predicable—outcomes worsen in state's with #abortion restrictions. https://www.texasobserver.org/infant-mortality-abortion-restriction-states/

#racism #health #healthcare #children #RoeVWade #Texas #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice