Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Dunning-Krugerand" is the best imaginable name for Bitcoin.

'It is instructive to recall (as Davis notes) the legendary six-word short story—“For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”—attributed by the literary agent Peter Miller to Ernest Hemingway. Miller claimed that Hemingway won a bet from his fellow writers on the strength of the tale. Arthur C. Clarke wrote to a friend that he could not “think of it without crying.”
(via The Browser)

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-art-of-compression?ref=thebrowser.com

'There are 14 oncology medicines listed “in shortage” by US regulators, including the generic chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and carboplatin, which are first-line treatments for many common types of cancer.'

https://www.ft.com/content/9225ccd6-df7f-4221-99eb-7ff7142e89f1

'A parte mais relevante é que Moreira Rato defendeu a interrupção da emissão de Certificados de Aforro. Lá se foram os cuidados com a classe média. Claro que Moreira Rato não representa os interesses da classe média e ainda menos o interesse público, como tentou argumentar. A voz de Moreira Rato representa a banca. É chairman do Banco CTT, foi administrador do BES e passou pelo Lehman Brothers.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/05/opiniao/opiniao/joao-moreira-rato-especie-influencer-2052193

The Lisbon rental market is completely out of control - students and postdocs considering moving here should take a page from those going to places like New York and asking about institutional housing.

'Mais ainda quando, no início de Abril, a residência enviou um email a avisar de que a renovação de contratos para o próximo ano lectivo estaria disponível e se confrontou com um aumento de mais de 100 euros. “Fui eu que tive de ir ao site e perceber que tinham aumentado de 695 para mais de 800 euros”, diz Francisco.'

https://www.publico.pt/interactivos/habitacao-estudantes-lisboa-residencias-universitarias/

Noisy ageing (#preprint).

"Through analysis of mouse single-cell transcriptome data across diverse organs and ages, we find that cellular age explains a large proportion of the variation in the age-related increase in transcriptome variance."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.31.543091v1?med=mas

Rare #cancer treated with #Immunotherapy : new data for #sarcoma subtype angiosarcoma, treated with double #checkpointinhibitors and showing clinical effects. But we still need better #biomarkers for #precisionmedicine in #immunology ... @chfloudas @cyrilpedia
https://jitc.bmj.com/content/9/8/e002990

The AHA is pleased to announce the Fellowships in Aerospace History: Andrew Ross (Georgetown Univ.), Haris Durrani (Princeton Univ.), and William Marino (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara). #AHAPerspectives https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/announcing-the-2023%E2%80%9324-nasa-fellows

Hello #ECRs! Don't forget to register!
White House Listening Session on: #OpenScience Possibilities for Career Advancement: Perspectives from Early Career Researchers on Opportunities and Challenges in Career Progression and Trajectory

⏰ It's tomorrow!
https://buff.ly/3pYMceZ

#OtD 5 Jun 1948 Oswald Mosley's fascist Union Movement was completely routed in Brighton by Jewish anti-fascists from the 43 Group. Leader of the demo, Jeffrey Hamm, ended up in hospital with a broken jaw. For more on the 43 Group, listen to our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/

Está no ar o Nr. 7 da #Almanaque. Agora bimestral.
Viva Junho, a Feira do Livro e a festa estival,
farturas, copos de vinho, fino ou imperial,
vivam os amigos e o verão, a pândega em geral!
🎉
Ilustração minha em homenagem a isso tudo, e à Manu e ao Emanuel, em particular 🙂
#ilustração #illustration #editorial #editorialillustration #coverillustration #magazinecover #magazinecoverillustration
#liaferreira #ilustracion #ilustration #almanaquemag #almanaquemagazine #revistaalmanaque #festas

Predatory journal spam: have you noticed that the messages target a specific article you wrote in the past? For the last few days, about half of the messages I get from "different” senders mention a 2016 paper from my lab. I guess it suggests the messages are linked, because it's a bit unlikely otherwise.

#PredatoryJournals #AcademicSpam #GreetingsForTheDay

More detailed histories of #libraries and #information #infrastructure please. “In this way, SUPARS is meaningful as both a design far ahead of its time and as a counterexample to established techno-utopian histories of the internet and the world wide web.” https://aeon.co/essays/the-1970s-librarians-who-revolutionised-the-challenge-of-search

Haymar Wint, Kohji Takei, Tetsuya Takeda and colleagues discover that pacsin-2 plays an essential role in collective cell migration of cancer cells by regulating endocytosis of N-cadherin.
#OpenAccess

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/10/jcs260827/310877/Pacsin-2-dependent-N-cadherin-internalization

Haymar Wint shares the story behind this research in our ‘First person’ interview: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/10/jcs261309/310873/First-person-Haymar-Wint

This article is a @ReviewCommons transfer.
You can find out more about the transfer to affiliate journals including @J_Cell_Sci here: https://www.reviewcommons.org/authors/

Bioinformatician with PhD and experience in immunology and single-cell

Institut Curie

Looking for a #bioinformatician with a PhD, experience in #immunology and #single-cell. Come join us at #InstitutCurie in #Paris

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/institut-curie-27778-bioinformatician-with-phd-and-experience-in-immunology-and-si...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/institut-curie-27778-bioinformatician-with-phd-and-experience-in-immunology-and-single-cell/?feed_id=47187

📢New on the Node

In this blog post, our correspondent
Dina Myasnikova talks about her experience as a women researcher in Japan, and how she found support from like-minded people by joining 'Women in Science Japan':

https://thenode.biologists.com/you-are-not-alone/discussion/

#theNodeCorrespondents #WomenInSTEM

"Our investigation reveals that the fetal HSCs respond to T. gondii infection with virulence-dependent changes in proliferation, self-renewal potential, and lineage output. Furthermore, maternal IFNγ crosses the fetal–maternal interface, where it is perceived by fetal HSCs."

#Immunology #Interferon #Toxoplasma

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2022112693