Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Water companies paid out more than £50bn in dividends to shareholders in the last 30 years. Thames Water is now £14bn in debt and the Government will probably have to bail them out.
Even then they’ll refuse to take the company back into public ownership and will basically give it back to their friends after paying off the debt.
And there’s billions that still needs investing in the water infrastructure itself.
Who ever thought privatising water monopolies was a good idea?

Me in 1994: I'm gonna be a physicist so I can solve the secrets of the universe!

Me in 2023: I'm gonna have to spend time online explaining to weirdos that vaccines don't make you magnetic

New TG mouse model for #SARSCoV2 infection

"In this study, we report an inducible, transgenic hACE2 mouse line and showcase three examples for specifically expressing hACE2 in three different lung epithelial cells, including AT2 cells, club cells, and ciliated cells. Moreover, all these mice models develop severe pneumonia after SARS-CoV-2 infection."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207210120

#Introduction

I am a #NewPI in stem cell & developed tan biology working at the Babraham Institute (Cambridge).
Will tweet about everything related with #devbio and life as an academic scientist.

Very excited that a community is built!

Americans Shocked by Audiotape Appearing to Prove Trump Capable of Reading
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/americans-shocked-by-audiotape-appearing-to-prove-trump-capable-of-reading

The current structure of science funding would make Max Perutz's work impossible and Perutz unemployed:

"Max, inspired by Bernal's vision that the structure of large and complex molecules such as proteins could be solved using X-ray diffraction, embarked on scaling a mountain in biology—solving the structure of haemoglobin. This was to take him more than 20 years."

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1093/embo-reports/kvf103

Last few days to check out "Oubliette", a collective show by
@anaanajottajotta @consta_arouca @jorgenesbitt @madparreira at Biblioteca Camoes, Lisbon.
#Art #exhibition #artgallery

#sculpture #printmaking and more.

https://informacoeseservicos.lisboa.pt/contactos/diretorio-da-cidade/biblioteca-camoes

Another famous passage from Dale. The ripple and shimmer!

"If 1 gamma of acetylcholine, for example, dissolved in 0.1 cc of Ringer’s solution, is thus injected suddenly into the artery supplying the frog’s gastrocnemius, the surface of the muscle, covered with its glistening aponeurosis, shows immediately the ripple and shimmer of innumerable, unsynchronized contractions, propagated along the fibres and fascicles of the muscle"

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1936/dale/lecture/

Opinion in #TheGuardian : The #car is king in the #US – and #pedestrian deaths are rising. Where is the outrage?

"Pedestrian deaths are at a 40-year high and the number of #cyclists hit by #cars has increased since the pandemic. The most astounding part? These are preventable tragedies" writes Arwa Mahdawi

#cycling #walking #roadSafety

Postdoc in Host-microbe interactions – computational and/or experimental

Cornell University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/cornell-university-27778-postdoc-in-host-microbe-interactions-computational-and-or-experimental-2/?feed_id=48572

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Ithaca, NY #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/cornell-university-27778-postdoc-in-host-microbe-interactions-computational-and-or-experimental-2/?feed_id=48572

#IDMastodon #Viralimmunology #Immunology #Cytokinebiology @CytokineSociety The delicate balance of the pro- & anti-inflammatory #cytokine responses that mediate effective clearance of viral titters is crucial for the effective resolution of #COVID19.
#Cytokinestorm results from disrupting this equilibrium, leading to uncontrolled immune cell responses.