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
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"I'm not particularly impressed with Large Language Models as they apply to natural human languages - "plausible sentence generators" is the phrase that I've seen that sums up my beliefs about them. But for things that are less complex than natural language, these techniques have more real-world uses. Coding is one, naturally, because programming languages are smaller and more orderly than human ones. The language of protein sequences is another example"
When the RPMI is yellow...
"Notably, genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and related processes were largely up-regulated or suppressed in response to low (1%) versus normal (5%) or high (10%) CO2 exposure, respectively. This effect was largely independent of pH changes known to occur with varying CO2concentrations"
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002401
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@IanSudbery @copdeb @cyclotopie @cyrilpedia @academicchatter as I understand it, the NIH DP5 program is intended to transition early career scientists to independence without a postdoctoral period https://commonfund.nih.gov/earlyindependence
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@cyclotopie @cyrilpedia @academicchatter
These graphs show the increased scarcity of #PI and other (possibly) stable #academic jobs. #PostDoc jobs cover a good part of the difference.
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My colleague Joachim Wistuba is looking for a #PhDstudent for his fully funded
@dfg_public project on #KlinefelterSyndrome Deadline for application 27th December. More information on the position and how to apply here: https://jobs-sf.ukmuenster.de/job/UKM-Wissenschaftlicher-Mitarbeiter-%28gn%29/1011115001/
#PhDposition #Reproduction #Andrology
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Harvard scholars call to eliminate orphan drug exemption in IRA to save Medicare more
#pharma #pharmaindustry #pharmaceuticalindustry #orphandrugs
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@cyrilpedia
Many interesting things in there about the increasing scarcity of stable #academic jobs …and also #gender inequalities.
"In 1921, nearly 30 per cent of 19-year-old Swiss conscripts had a goitre. In the cantons of Luzern and Obwalden, one in four men were exempt from military service as a result of goitres so large they struggled to breathe. For every man with a goitre, three women suffered from the condition"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n23/jonah-goodman/a-national-evil
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Hello !
We are a Genomics core facility located in the centre of Paris, France, within the Ecole normale supérieure.
✅ We support our collaborators by providing access to high-throughput sequencing, with particular expertise in functional genomics applications in eukaryotes. We propose transcriptomics: #RNAseq (low input, short-read and long-read, single-cell #scRNA-seq).
"The F.D.A. has approved six commercial CAR-T products. Cancer specialists said the treatments have saved the lives of thousands of patients with blood cancers. Even if there is a causal link between the treatments and a small risk of a new blood cancer, the regulators said on Tuesday, the benefits of the treatment outweigh the risks. That sentiment was echoed by doctors involved in cancer treatment."
#immunology #immunotherapy #CARTcells
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/health/fda-car-t-blood-cancer.html
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🇫🇮 Finland: Air purifiers use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third
"It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30% of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents"
#COVID19 #Finalnd #AirPurifiers #CleanAir @auscovid19
Source: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381
"The main and interesting conclusion in the abstract is that of the 45% of alumni not continuing in academic research, one third does industry research and one third is in a science-related profession."
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How can statistics help us to analyse how our brains work? 🧠
With a new
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23ERCCoG
, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber
https://nitter.cz/UTwente
intends to develop advanced mathematical tools to analyse learning in the brain as a statistical method. 👉
https://europa.eu/!Cp4bn6
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ERC_Research/status/1729801151561060561#m
[2023-11-29 09:55 UTC]
"The European Commission’s statements indicate education, research and innovation talks will progress in parallel to the future wider Swiss-EU negotiations. They follow a declaration on November 8 by the Swiss government that it would decide its overall negotiating position by the end of the year for the next stage of talks to regulate its long-term relationship with the EU."
"He scraped together enough cash — $900, half his annual salary — to buy a course of the drugs that, a decade ago, began to revolutionize hepatitis C treatment in the United States and other high-income countries."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/28/health/hepatitis-c-cure-egypt.html
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Lessons Learned: Establishing a CLIA-Equivalent Laboratory for Targeted Mass Spectrometry Assays – Navigating the Transition from Research to Clinical Practice https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3654836/v1
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#proteomics #prot-preprint
"In reality, one of the most important things the United States government has ever done to advance technology is regulate it. Microsoft was the beneficiary of antitrust litigation aimed at IBM, once the country’s dominant computer maker; Amazon, Google, and Facebook have flourished because a 1996 law granted them extraordinary protection from legal liability for the content they circulate; Apple is a beneficiary of a strong patent regime."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/tech-regulation-bell-system/676110/
"A petrostate hosting a climate conference” sounds like a situation shouted out at an improv night, after they’ve done the ones about a fox hosting a henhouse and Jimmy Savile hosting Jim’ll Fix It. Arguably, though, the fact the president of this week’s Cop28 climate conference in Dubai is also the CEO of the United Arab Emirates’ state oil firm crosses the fine line between mirthless joke and extinction-level distress signal"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/28/cop28-save-planet-oil-uae-telegraph
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'During Omicron-dominant period, patients with solid cancer & COVID-19 had higher risk of hospitalization / death post COVID-19 infection vs patients without solid cancer with COVID-19; and COVID-19💉in patients with cancer mitigated this risk.'🔗to study via @CIDRAP
"We show that socially stressed mice have elevated serum antibody concentrations. We also confirm that social stress leads to the expansion of specific T and B cell populations within the cervical lymph nodes, where brain-derived antigens are preferentially delivered."
#immunology #Neuroimmunology
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
