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
"The findings suggest that the United States has averted a dire outcome — stagnating at pandemic lows — but that many students are not on pace to catch up before the expiration of a $122 billion federal aid package in September. That money — the single largest federal investment in public education in the country’s history — has paid for extra help, like tutoring and summer school, at schools nationwide."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/31/us/pandemic-learning-loss-recovery.html
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Earlier this week at @cwts we launched the #OpenEdition of our #LeidenRanking https://open.leidenranking.com/.
The Open Edition is the first fully transparent university ranking. All data is openly available. The source code of the software used to process the data and to calculate the indicators is openly available as well.
https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/introducing-the-leiden-ranking-open-edition
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Red Ants / Blue Moon
Installation above Vinegar Yard by Joe Rush (CC BY-NC-ND)
#sculpture #StreetArt #photography #CreativeCommons
https://flic.kr/p/2pwuLTj
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"In a crowded market, the supply of #contentcreators hoping to profit from their work directly outstrips demand. The number of YouTube channels, podcasts, Substack newsletters, and other independently produced media has exploded…
It is statistically unlikely that any random podcast or YouTube channel will blow up in popularity to the point of replacing the creator's working salary through direct payments."
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon
That's not a profit margin. *That's*👇 a profit margin
"Relx does not disclose figures for specific journals but reported £2.9bn revenues in 2022 for all scientific, technical and medical products, with an operating profit of £1.1bn."
https://www.ft.com/content/33e41e46-0d5d-480b-ad08-009da434c52f
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During the 2020 lockdown @madparreira experimented with making miniature paper sets in tupperwares & lighting them with her cellphone :)
#Art #ArtGallery #Handmade
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Portugal's second Golden Age is coming:
"Now cork is experiencing a revival as more industries look for sustainable alternatives to plastic and other materials derived from fossil fuels."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/03/cork-sustainable-material/
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Gift ideas:
"To Wilhelm, Hainhofer offered a vast array of goods, from Jodocus Hondius’s beautifully illustrated and expanded edition of Mercator’s Atlas—a guide to where treasured rarities came from—to “Indian” feathers, skirts, rings, and bowls from the East Indies and “a stuffed rat from Lithuania that warded off insects from damaging clothes.”"
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Long-term vaccination effects.
It is strange to see the messages about not knowing the long-term effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. We do, and yes, of course, there are long-term consequences.
1/10
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While the 1,000 true fans concept offers the illusion of a lower hurdle, the conversion math paints a different picture.
Data from Patreon and Substack suggests the average conversion rate from follower to paying fan is about 5%. This means a creator would need a total fanbase of 20,000 followers to yield 1,000 paying supporters.
And that's...a little harder.
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-creator-economy-cant-rely-on-patreon
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Architecture of intact mammalian pyruvate dehydrogenase complex revealed by in-situ structural analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.01.578502v1?med=mas
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"The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen in the immediate wake of World War II when, on their return to London, they encountered British fascist organisations such as Jeffrey Hamm's "British League of Ex-Servicemen" and later Oswald Mosley's reformed fascist party, the Union Movement. In 1945 at the end of the War, there were 11 Fascist Societies and 4 Fascist Book Clubs in the UK"
(CW: documentary footage of concentration camp)
"Se espreitarmos os objectivos curriculares até ao 9.º ano, apenas aparece uma dezena de menções à teoria da evolução de Charles Darwin (e suas ramificações) – as bases da selecção natural e da adaptação ao ambiente que explicam a sobrevivência e a evolução das espécies. Portugal não é caso único. Em boa parte da Europa, as aprendizagens essenciais dos anos comuns a todos os alunos não contemplam a explicação dos mecanismos evolutivos (como a deriva genética ou os processos de selecção natural), nem como a evolução está presente no dia-a-dia (desde a preservação de espécies em extinção à covid-19)."
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Amusingly, it's not the first time an antibody vendor's images appear to have been recycled. I'm struggling find the PubPeer link, but still have the side-by-side paper-catalogue comparison:
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A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.
“Due to the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.
Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.
https://apnews.com/article/oglala-sioux-reservation-governor-ban-south-dakota-9f811bbd1ffaadf979e4353ad6e961ad
'Such confident, sweeping, racist generalizations appeared often, impugning not just Africans and Indigenous Americans, but also Jewish people, Catholics, Irish immigrants, Germans, & Mexican Americans. Systems of racial thought evolved over time, changing who could be included in the White elite'
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From last week: After 15 years of declining teen birth rates, the trend is beginning to reverse itself ... starting with the end of Roe v Wade. A new study explains what we can expect next.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-teen-birth-rate-after-roe?utm_campaign=mastodon
"For thousands of years, Parsi communities, first in Persia and later in India, placed their deceased on squat stone structures called Towers of Silence, in a practice known as sky burial. Historically, in places like Mumbai, vultures disposed of the bodies—but, in the nineties, the vultures stopped showing up."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-nepal/consider-the-vulture
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Debunked: Misleading NYT Anti-Trans Article By Pamela Paul Relies On Pseudoscience
“The opinion piece by Pamela Paul relies on routinely debunked disinformation and gets factual information wrong about transgender care. It is the latest NYT published piece to do so.”
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/debunked-misleading-nyt-anti-trans
Gift ideas:
"To Wilhelm, Hainhofer offered a vast array of goods, from Jodocus Hondius’s beautifully illustrated and expanded edition of Mercator’s Atlas—a guide to where treasured rarities came from—to “Indian” feathers, skirts, rings, and bowls from the East Indies and “a stuffed rat from Lithuania that warded off insects from damaging clothes.”"
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
