Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🧐 #MeetTheSpeaker!

🔬 Hazuki Takahashi from RIKEN IMS explains how nanopore long-read #sequencing technology can change research on the #humangenome

https://youtu.be/AzoY5x_hkJs

#sciencemastodon #science #lifesciences #humantechnopole #nanopore @nanopore@genomic.social @nanopore@bird.makeup @riken_en

#IDMastodon #PublicHealth #COVID19 Rebound After Paxlovid and Molnupiravir: Is Treatment Worth It? @medscape
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/990332?ecd=WNL_trdalrt_pos1_ous_230531&uac=91115DZ&impID=5479804#vp_1

That revolutionary new fMRI technique for detecting neuronal activity (DIANA)? Guess what happened next.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/0EF432E4E7D84352E9B582CEC6DF07#1

bioRxiv preprints "contradictory results" are really useful. And whoever is posting them to PubPeer is perfoming a real public service, because it is difficult for readers to discover them.

Welcome move from #EMBO: "We now consider publications in #journals and #refereed #preprints equal" for the purpose of applying to be an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow.
https://www.embo.org/features/refereed-preprints-in-applications-for-embo-postdoctoral-fellowships/

@Nature @WHO
📌 https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-can-take-the-pfizer-biontech-covid-19--vaccine-what-you-need-to-know

Flies galore:

Robber fly, Asilinae family https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164682340

Bee fly, Bombylidae family, with an uncanny resemblance to a Calliphora fly https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164650016

Bee fly, Lomatia sp. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164565745

#iNaturalist #Diptera #BeeFlies #Bombylidae #Asilinae #entomology #Crete #insects

New posting! This one's about optics, but nothing to do with microscopy - instead it's asking whether we should perhaps view #scientists and not knowledge as the real (primary) product of #academic #research...and whether this provides a better rationalisation of the level of societal investment. Are research papers actually a by-product?

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/05/30/whats-the-by-product/

"The European Commission and Pfizer have agreed a deal to cut the number of Covid-19 vaccines supplied to the EU, resolving tensions between the majority of member states over paying for shots that may not be used."

https://www.ft.com/content/eb4fe823-66bd-4e1a-8b96-13b8f8c3dce9

"Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from removing people from the program."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/us/politics/medicaid-coverage-pandemic-loss.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'Here, we show that yeast paralogous genes are more divergent in transcription than in translation. We explore two causal mechanisms for this predominance of transcriptional divergence: an evolutionary trade-off between the precision and economy of gene expression and a larger mutational target size for transcription.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010756

Martin Gardner wrote a brainteaser column for Scientific American for many years. We tested ChatGPT on his puzzles, and it turns out that if you want to solve a brainteaser, it helps to have a brain https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-can-probably-beat-chatgpt-at-these-math-brainteasers-heres-why/

3 #postdoc positions with the Sociable Weaver project:

1) fitness benefits of social associations, 2) role of cooperation in mate choice, 3) impact of fire on fitness and the mediating effects of sociality.

https://sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/postdoc/

@jobsecoevo

#OtD 29 May 1941 Disney Studios animators in LA walked out after 16 were fired for demanding union recognition. After 5 weeks workers won pay increases of up to 50% and nearly all of their other demands. Walt Disney remained bitter about it until his death https://libcom.org/history/1941-disney-cartoonists-strike

Postdoctoral Scientist – Cancer Immunosurveillance Group

Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute

come join #cancer immunonology postoc @ #CRUK Manchester Institute

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cancer-research-uk-manchester-institute-27778-postdoctoral-scientist-cancer-immunosurveillance-group/?feed_id=46774

#Scienc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cancer-research-uk-manchester-institute-27778-postdoctoral-scientist-cancer-immunosurveillance-group/?feed_id=46774