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
Thiago Carvalho
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UK Politics; Eton; Farage
Warning - this is a story that will make you furious, twice
Not only did Eton college boys subject state school girls who were attending an event at their school to “misogynistic language and racial slurs”, but the event in question was a speech by Nigel Farage
Yes, Eton invited hate-stoking, race-baiting, Trump-supporting, Putin-apologist Nigel Farage to speak to their students
What were they thinking??
Thiago Carvalho
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Hello fellow mastodonians. For an #introduction of ourselves: We are a lab at the University of Zürich🇨🇭, reaearching commensal and pathogenic fungi and their interaction with the mammalian host. Interested in #immunology, medical #mycology, infectious diseases, homeostasis, antimicrobial resistance and much more! Hope the community of #medicalmycology will grow soon on mastodon 🐘
Whenever I use two laptops side by side I feel like Jean-Michel Jarre.
As the Amazing Criswell put it, we are all interested in the future, because that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
"In 2012, computer theorist Ben Goertzel proposed what he called the “robot university student test”, arguing that an AI capable of obtaining a degree in a same ways as a human should be considered conscious.
Goertzel’s idea – an alternative to the more famous “Turing test” – might have remained a thought experiment were it not for the successes of AIs employing natural language processing (NLP): most famously, GPT-3, the language model created by the OpenAi research laboratory."
Thiago Carvalho
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The BQ.1.1 variant, as compared with many of the other new variants, is resistant to all clinically used monoclonal antibodies.
BQ.1/BQ.1.1 are now the dominant variants in the United States
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00733-2/fulltext @TheLancetInfDis@twitter.com
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PLEASE BOOST: Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.
Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.
However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!
Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
"We therefore took advantage of PLX5622-mediated depletion of these myeloid cell subsets to examine their functional role in C. neoformans lung infection and extrapulmonary dissemination. We found that PLX5622-treated mice had significantly reduced fungal lung infection and reduced extrapulmonary dissemination to the CNS but not to the spleen or liver. Fungal lung infection mapped to MHCIIhi interstitial lung macrophages, which underwent significant expansion during infection following monocyte replenishment and not local division."
Thiago Carvalho
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The small RNA landscape is stable with age in Drosophila
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0273590
"Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for what prosecutors called one of the “most substantial” white collar crimes ever seen in the US."
https://www.ft.com/content/3ab080c9-c13d-40b3-a697-9c58fd9e218c
Thiago Carvalho
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Looking to connect with anybody interested in #tumorimmunology and #invivobiology 👀🤓🐭🧬
A good op piece in the Times about the need to keep vaccine development going, but I really dislike the framing of the issue as some sort of global competitive sport (eg 'foreign rivals'). This kind of zero sum thinking about public health is why we're still in this mess in 2023.
"But as a third pandemic winter begins in the United States, its vaccine-making effort has lost steam. Efforts to test and produce next-generation Covid vaccines are bogged down by bureaucratic problems and funding shortfalls. Foreign rivals have raced ahead in approving long-awaited nasal-spray vaccines, including one invented in St. Louis"
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/health/covid-nasal-vaccines-warp-speed.html
Thiago Carvalho
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"We do not see double-anonymised review as the progressive answer to biases in peer review. We argue for sunlight instead of shadows: open peer review, with published review reports and optional open reviewer identities. Such openness helps to expose human biases and to discuss them publicly. It also allows for innovations in scholarly communication models. This is essential to tackle biases at the root, instead of just trying to minimise their consequences." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/11/18/sunlight-not-shadows-double-anonymised-peer-review-is-not-the-answer-to-status-bias/ @tonyRH
Thiago Carvalho
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Hi everyone👋 #preLights is a #preprint highlights service run by the biological #community and supported by #Co_Biologists allowing researchers to:
🔎 Sift through the growing volume of preprints.
💡 Highlight new thinking or new techniques across the biological sciences.
📝 Comment on preprints that are of particular interest.
👥 See comments and opinions of other researchers.
Toots from Reinier Prosée, the preLights community manager.
Thiago Carvalho
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"We have not been fair to children at all during this pandemic"
@Daltmann10@twitter.com
indie_SAGE 18.11.2022 https://youtu.be/l9ZJYHhH7VM via @YouTube@twitter.com
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A reminder/suggestion about writing a #thread 🧵 on #Mastodon: consider making your first post visible for all (Public 🌎), and setting visibility to Unlisted 🔓 for the rest. Great #tootorial here:
https://scicomm.xyz/@quokka/109274732847484553
Thiago Carvalho
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To all immunologists who don‘t yet know: Check out this great seriers of online talks (also available on demand) - Global ImmunoTalks: https://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/zuniga/global_immunotalks.htm
Thiago Carvalho
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We just arrived! Trying to find our way around... We are looking to connect with anybody interested in immunology, fungal immunology, medical mycology, fungi, commensalism, ...
Thiago Carvalho
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Beautiful...
H/T @DrGlycoBen@twitter.com
RT @phospho@twitter.com
Incredibly excited to finally share this.. We’ve charted the full life cycle of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with @MaastrichtU@twitter.com. Follow us inside the cell and see exactly what happens during an infection https://youtu.be/k2GlafQ9YhY
Thiago Carvalho
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We recently developed a new single cell assay (QUAS-R) to measure glutamine uptake through Slc1a5.
Check it out on BioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.510040v1. Fun collaboration with Linda Sinclair and Sander van Kasteren
Thiago Carvalho
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Each year the society recognises an outstanding young evolutionary biologist by awarding the John Maynard Smith prize.
Nominations for the 2023 #JMS prize are now open: http://ow.ly/V5ag50LH777
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
