Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

When you report on an Ig Nobel Prize winner's further discovery about the prize-winning research, be careful to not mention the Ig Nobel Prize [ #NYTimes again demonstrates the #proper way to do #science #journalism ] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/science/insect-female-penis.html

Reading up on the role of transposons in genome evolution, and finding this classic review from a few years ago very helpful:

Ten things you should know about transposable elements

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1577-z

#genomics #transposons #evolution #genetics

We are hiring! A @CRUK funded #postdoc position on #transposons, #epigenetics, #cancer @QMBCI. Click here to apply: jobs.ac.uk/job/CWL362/pos…
Deadline: 5th February
Interview: 21st February
Please RT and share with your network! DM for any questions!

#DYK that the forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee created real crime scene dioramas to train homicide investigators in the 1940s/50s? She was troubled that patrolmen and detectives rarely knew how to secure a scene for the medical examiner, or identify key evidence that might prove useful in a forensic investigation. And so, she set out to create dioramas as educational tools.

She also helped found the first Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard when forensics was in its infancy.

Officially, we have 6.7+ MILLION deaths due to #COVID19. According to a recent review on #Nature, [1] there are at least 65 MILLION people with #LongCovid. Thinking about this collective idiocy and the threat of #climatechange knocking on our door, how will be the world in a couple of years?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

#zombie #walkingdead #apocalypse

The USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring scientists with informatics expertise relevant to public health. Apply at the link below, for a 'lead health scientist' position with salary starting at $116K and working from anywhere in the US (i.e. remote-eligible).

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/699938000

The current posting is for the Office of Science, but applications may also be reviewed by other programs across the CDC (i.e. they are using a "shared certificate").

#jobs #tech #hiring

The Librarians Who Rode Horseback Through Rough Terrain To Deliver Books. "Back in the days of horseback deliveries, librarians made their way into the treacherous mountains to make sure the children who lived there (and their parents) wouldn’t have to go without books. Known as 'book women,' they belonged to the Pack Horse Library, part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA)." https://twistedsifter.com/2023/01/the-librarians-who-rode-horseback-through-rough-terrain-to-delivery-books/

Think about a time when you were in the place to have really great ideas and energy to do something about them. Two questions:

1) What conditions that landed you there?
2) Do you shape your life around making that happen again, and if not, what holds you back?

I've been reading this lovely book by the novelist Haruki Murakami and I was pleased to discover that his conditions are also the way a scientist friend works: Creative work in the mornings, running right after, maintain headspace.

https://www.harukimurakami.com/book/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running-a-memoir

The Pena Palace is a Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.
https://pixels.com/featured/pena-palace-27-john-hughes.html
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #PenaPalace #Sintra #Lisbon #Portugal

Monty Python and the Search for #COVID19 Sanity.

Inspired by @penguinpete

Ever seen a #brain tractography so detailed? "Microstructural mapping of dentate gyrus pathology in #Alzheimer’s disease: A 16.4 Tesla #MRI study" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158223000074 #histology

Very cool: The #University of #Antwerp will prohibit its staff from #flying to destinations that can be reached by #train in less than 8h. Staff who attend conferences in most of the #EU will be obliged to travel by train. @academicchatter
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/352003/belgian-university-bans-staff-from-short-flights