Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Based on this reconstruction and using as input the changes in the metabolome observed in our cohort, we obtained a comprehensive view of the impact of COVID-19 on the entire human metabolism"
#covid #covid19 #Metabolism

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011787

Ahoy! Baleias no canal/Prato falante.
Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#proverbs #proverbios #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

Greetings inhabitants of Porto, I am among you.

🧪 Do you like 🐢 🐦‍⬛ 🌵🌞? Here’s a cool 16 min long documentary! 🎥 Ravens follow human settlements & attack Mojave Desert Tortoises. As a strategy to train 🐦‍⬛ to avoid 🐢 Ecologists booby-trapp w/ artificial grape flavor “bombs” 3D-printed tortoise replicas 🔗 #Nature #Herps #Corvids https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/can-you-save-one-species-by-annoying-another

We see that certain groups are major drivers of this article growth, in some cases seemingly out of nothingness. This includes your classic publishers like #Elsevier and #Springer, but also the upstarts #Frontiers and… most significantly #MDPI.

In numbers, there were nearly 1 million more articles per year published in 2022 (2.8m) compared to 2016 (1.9m). MDPI takes the lion’s share at 27% of that growth, with Elsevier (16%) a distant 2nd.

How did we get to this point? 3/n

Yup. Looks like you can atone for original antigenic sin. As with all learning, repetition is key 🥲 (The sky ain’t falling. Imprinting is real, but reports of the immune system’s demise were premature.) h/t @thelonevirologist.bsky.social #Virology #VaccinesWork #Omicron #Covid19 #science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06753-7

Following our #JEB100 article about JEB's history, Kathryn Knight revisits ground breaking papers and some Nobel Prize inspiring gems in our new Perspective: A snapshot of 100 years of discovery

Review the last century in 27 key JEB papers

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/22/jeb246869/334722

Burro Velho/Prato falante.
Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

#proverbs #proverbios #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #artmastodon

https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

"We showed that treatment with an agonist against the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily member CD40 in combination with a soluble β-glucan (BG), which targets the C-type lectin receptor (CLR) Dectin-1, was sufficient to trigger productive immunosurveillance in ICB-resistant mouse models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma."
#immunology #Immunotherapy #myeloidcells

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciimmunol.adj5097#tab-contributors

Interesting mix:

"She discusses famous nineteenth-century figures such as Rudolf Virchow, the German physician widely credited as the founder of modern pathology, and Elie Metchnikoff, the Russian zoologist who discovered how white blood cells neutralize invading bacteria, as well as less familiar researchers like Ruslan Medzhitov, Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, and Luigi Ferrucci."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/07/gut-instincts-a-silent-fire-shilpa-ravella/

'Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has launched a national consultation in which he links further EU aid to Ukraine to Brussels unblocking funds for his own country, at a moment when Kyiv is struggling to secure future support from its western allies.'

https://www.ft.com/content/62286134-7f91-4c9a-a332-a3a7e15b4b88

Portugal & TB

"A médica recorda que o nosso país "tem estatuto de baixa incidência a nível a mundial, mas é o que tem a incidência mais elevada na Europa Ocidental", e esta situação não pode ser esquecida."

https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/tuberculose-ainda-existe-e-portugal-e-o-pais-da-europa-ocidental-com-incidencia-mais-elevada--17372082.html

Fantastic new resource for #microbiology and #protist enthusiasts from @pjkeelinglab

This #PLOSBiology Essay has freely available technical diagrams, thumbnails and an illustrated tree to highlight the diversity of microbial life.

https://plos.io/47r5ev8

Openly available #illustrations as tools to describe #eukaryotic #microbial #diversity

Beautiful and extremely useful #open #resource from Yana Eglit and @pjkeelinglab depicting eukaryotic microbes in exquisite detail.

Aren’t they lovely? Which is your favorite?
@PLOSBiology
#LoveMicrobiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002395