Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

My latest for The Nation.

The Fight for the Soul of American Medicine

More and more physicians are rejecting the forces of conservatism within their field and joining the grassroots movement to revolutionize American medicine. Featuring Suhas Gondi, Sanjay Kishore, Don Berwick, Eric Reinhart, J. Michael McWilliams. #medicine #publichealth #finance #SDoH

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/doctors-american-medicine-public-health/

PROTAC degraders Rock! Read this application to the #Polycomb BMI and RING1B proteins:
Targeted Degradation of PRC1 Components, BMI1 and RING1B, via a Novel Protein Complex Degrader Strategy.
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202205573

"The area of sea ice around Antarctica has hit a record low, with scientists reporting “never having seen such an extreme situation before”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/antarctic-sea-ice-hits-record-low-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

Exciting news: UMass is hiring a new professor for our program and the rank is open for both Assistant and Associate. The link to apply is: https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/517690/assistantassociate-professor-college-of-education-remp

Please share with any outstanding psychometricians you know who may be interested in working in one of the best and most productive measurement programs in the world

#WHO aims to accelerate trials of vaccine candidates for #Marburg disease

https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-accelerate-vaccine-marburg/

Nonrandomised controlled trial in recurrent glioblastoma patients: the promise of autologous tumour lysate-loaded dendritic cell vaccination

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-023-02194-1

Exciting new paper in @PLOSBiology — we show that plasmids use translational global regulators to rewire host cells including expression of key ecological traits, like metabolism and motility, whilst also boosting horizontal transmission of the plasmid

This was a big collaborative effort with colleagues at John Innes Centre, Birmingham, Sheffield & Liverpool

#plasmid #HGT #MobileGeneticElements

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001988

When it gets hot, Polycomb comes to the rescue... "Warm temperature-triggered developmental reprogramming requires VIL1-mediated genome-wide H3K27me3 accumulation in Arabidopsis" https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article-abstract/doi/10.1242/dev.201343/286988/Warm-temperature-triggered-developmental/

After seeing pretty compelling evidence that #musk is forcing you to see his illuminated thoughts either you like it or not (and #Twitter engineers to tweak the system to do so), I am really wondering why is anyone still interested in a platform that so obviously feeds you what *he* wants you to see... #scaryshit

Asas Sobre o Mundo.

Que são 98 anos de #CarlosParedes.

📷 Serge Cohen

#arte #art #artist #música #music #album #guitarraportuguesa #guitar #genious #genio

Amazing work, @VikiLovesFACS. So well deserved.
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RT @ClareCollege
Viki Male (2004) returned to college to receive the alumna of the year award - set up to recognise individual contributions to society.
During the pandemic, Viki ensured pregnant people could access evidence-based information on the COVID vaccine.
http://bit.ly/3K6GWxG
https://twitter.com/ClareCollege/status/1625547468598394883

Congrats to all the newly elected American Academy of #Microbiology fellows - tagging a few I know are on Mastodon @drdrandrews @jenbiddle @chicaScientifica @florian_krammer https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2023/February/65-Fellows-Elected-into-the-American-Academy-of-Mi?_zs=lekpl&_zl=3BRR2