Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

The emergence of external peer review in the mid-20th century was enabled by the photocopier.* How can new technologies further improve scientific publishing? Help us map the space in preparation for a meeting next year! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xGvFTIXgwgIzaoos6IHxWQVgcrbetqyZSt7MSgFeInI/edit#gid=0 cc @PracheeAC

(*HT Joel Plotkin, eg https://journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/Abstract/2018/03000/The_Impact_of_the_Photocopier_on_Peer_Review_and.4.aspx)

#introduction Hello world! 👋🏼 I’m a community ecologist, scientific illustrator, and educator passionate about social justice in STEM. ✊🏼 I also #LiveSketch conference talks, so give me a follow if you want to see beautifully illustrated 🎨🖌️ science 🧬🔬🧪!

Marie Tharp’s 1953 map of the Atlantic seafloor helped prove the theory of continental drift, but the male geologist she collaborated with took the credit.

Read more about her at The Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing-believing-how-marie-tharp-changed-geology-forever-180960192/

#cartography #maps #geology #stem #gender

@CECAD

CECAD - Welcome to #ScienceMastodon! 🙂

Cologne's science community is marching in 😉

by the way: just found another Köllemoji: 😀

#aging #AgingResearch #uniklinikkoln #Metabolism #mitochondria #genetics

Okay this is cool! Long-distance membrane tension changes measured with optical traps while inducing actin protrusion at the opposite side of the cell. Just love the system! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.07.507005v1

On the picket line (in the rain) this morning trying to ask uni's for better conditions, pay and pensions for uni staff. Hard to see how we will retain staff or encourage students this is a good career choice if things continue as is. #ExeterUCU #UCURising #UCU #FalmouthUCU

No better place to do your PhD! Cannot recommend enough :D Amazing facility, and the friendliest people. I had the best time there. Moving away from that much support is hard for me, but while I was there, I enjoyed every minute of it.
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RT @CRUK_BI
10 new #PhD studentships are now open for applications.

#FindAPhD #PhDposition

Find out more: https://beatson.gla.ac.uk/Education/Studentships/
https://twitter.com/CRUK_BI/status/1595388757695684608

Wow, so one of the most powerful owners in the #NFL, Jerry Jones of the Dallas #Cowboys, was one of the bullies trying to stop his Black classmates from desegregating Central High School in Little Rock, #Arkansas in 1957. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2022/jerry-jones-black-coaches-nfl/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p003_f001

“In the classroom, however, we teach only the settled facts. We don’t highlight the messy business of getting there. A public accustomed to learning about science as a final product was perhaps perplexed to see science in the making.”
This piece by
@ct_bergstrom on Twitter and the pandemic is worth your time. Would love to debate the questions he raises here!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/pandemic-twitter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A postdoc position is available with Kazoo Kitamura at the University of Yamanashi in Japan. I can 100% say that it would be great to work with Kazuo, he would be a great postdoc advisor.
http://nphys-lab.yamanashi.ac.jp/hiring/

I thought this paper by Pacheco et al. was interesting, showing how mobile PI(4,5)P2 is on the plasma membrane. Surprisingly PIP2 is highly mobile even when engaged with e.g. clathrin machinery. Nice use of SPT/TrackMate and reporters to examine lipid distribution in the membrane.

https://rupress.org/jcb/article/222/2/e202204099/213711/PI-4-5-P2-diffuses-freely-in-the-plasma-membrane

Note: I'll try to boost interesting #cellbiology papers occasionally. Join me! Maybe we can use the #paperotd paper of the day hashtag of yesteryear.

Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She discovered the antifungal antibiotic nystatin while doing research for the NY State Department of Health, hence the name.

Rather than keep the profits from the drug, Brown (standing in the photo) and co-discoverer Elizabeth Hazen assigned nystatin’s patent royalties to the nonprofit Research Corporation of New York, to help support other researchers.

Image: Smithsonian Institution

Interested in #mechanobiology ? A reminder for a few #MastodonScience places:

@mechanobiology group: follow it, it'll retoot all messages it's mentioned in to all its followers.

@mechanobio posts the #mechanobiology preprints and papers from #bioRxiv, #arXiv and #pubmed.

https://jocelynetienne.github.io/Mastodon-Biophysicists/ proposes to build an online directory of people doing biophysics in general

Very excited to have received a Carl Tryggers grant to hire a postdoc working or the tiny, but highly specialised eyes of the pest insect, thrips! This project has been percolating in the background ever since my PhD, and it will be great to have someone working on it in earnest.

#introduction:
We are a new cell systems biology team at the #UniversityOfManchester #UoM.
We study #CellAdhesion #networks in health and disease, especially #cancer.
Fascinated by how adhesion proteins help #cells function in so many ways!

#proteomics #integrins #adhesion #cytoskeleton #nucleus #bioinformatics #omics #ExtracellularMatrix #ECM #NetworkBiology #DataViz