Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

News from Gates & Wellcome
"Two leading medical charities will contribute about $550mn to fund a large-scale clinical trial of what would be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine for more than a century."
#Vaccine #Tuberculosis #PublicHealth

https://www.ft.com/content/fa4eb584-e347-47b1-b380-daa7026a010f

New here, switched servers (phew!) and still learning. #Introduction I'm a Hungarian/American #anthropologist #medanthro #publichealth #healthpolicy prof. Working on addressing #social #structural drivers of #healthinequities especially in #lactation #breastfeeding and across #reproduction. Mama to two. #Baking, #hiking & hanging with our rescue #dogs Cocoa & Huxley in my free time. 👋

Hey gang. Little re- #introduction from me. I'm a #zoologist working in #science #education at the Natural History Museum, London and I'm also a #childrensbooks #author. I write about pretty much all #naturalhistory (#dinosaurs, #invertebrates, #ecology, #behaviour...) and I'd love to connect on here with you all! :)

IF KISSINGER OUTLIVES TWITTER I AM GOING TO HAVE A FUCKING BREAKDOWN

I am particularly interested in following new people who are:
- growers and farmers, in the UK or beyond
- researchers in life sciences generally, and ecology/agriculture/horticulture/entomology specifically
- #ActuallyAutistic
- interested in promoting social justice and inclusivity in science and academia
- talking about ecology/agriculture in tropical biomes

So open to recommendations and follows in these and other areas!

Yes, the Court’s affirmative action decision is worse than you thought.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/john-roberts-supreme-court-brown-v-board-of-education.html

A biologist’s guide to planning and performing quantitative bioimaging experiments | PLOS Biology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002167

Michael Harriot:

Between 2014 and 2019, 69.3% of the legacy admissions to Harvard were white. And, while most people think of athletic scholarships for football and basketball going to Black students, athletic scholarships are disproportionately reserved for non-revenue (pronounced “why-yet”) sports and students who shoot golf, play rowing and do sword fighting. This year alone, 75% of the athletes recruited for Harvard’s 2023 freshman class are white."

#blackmastodon
https://thegrio.com/2023/06/30/theres-no-such-thing-as-race-neutral/

Amazing structural diversity of giant virus-like particles in forest soil | bioRxiv

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.546935v1

Many newcomers due to what's happening in The Bad Place, so here's another #introduction. Hi! I'm an astronomer and science communicator at the European Southern Observatory.

Below is a pic from my previous "office" at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile. I now work full time as Media Officer at ESO's HQ in #Germany.

I mostly post about #astronomy #space #photography and #astrophotography

Tips:
- fill in your bio
- follow hashtags
- share posts you like, you're the algorithm here

Welcome!

My goodness, #Mastodon has suddenly come alive with people again tonight! 🔥

Quite like it. Personally, the platform is quite robust and feature rich. Main thing missing has been people and content (related to my work interests), but broadly the more the merrier. Never a shortage of things to talk about, including #twitter & #twittermigration

A new view of Cycads in deep time

Recently, the results of a long-lasting project on the phylogeny and evolution of the cycads have been published on the journal New Phytologist. This project started with part of my Doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich, and continued and concluded while I was working at the University of Vienna thanks to funding from the Austrian Science Fund with co-pi…

http://mariocoiro.blog/2023/06/27/a-new-view-of-cycads-in-deep-time/

Oubliette Exhibition at Biblioteca Camoes, Lisbon (Largo do Calhariz, 17). Show runs until the end of June (AKA Tomorrow!).

"The Pignerol Gates. (Rome, circa 1760).
Oubliettes have only one entrance – frequently a trap door on the roof, as was by all contemporary accounts the case of the Pignerol cell. They were constructed so that men could be literally thrown away and forgotten. In Pignerol we know for certain that the gate opened once in 1631 and then again in 1670. The plates you see here were etched in 18th century Rome, by an unknown hand, working from the sketches produced by the guards (the documents were then in the Vatican’s possession, they were transferred to Napoleon by Pius VII and are now in the Archives Nationales)."
Prof. Horst Manfrenjensenden, Ph.D.
Head of Collections, von Willebrand Trust.

#Art #Print #Printmaking #Etching #Handmade #Cartography#ArtGallery #Oubliette #artstagram

@anaanajottajotta @consta_arouca @madparreira@jorgenesbitt

"Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your baby."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/29/magazine/pregnant-women-medication-suboxonbabies.html

"The strangeness has a name – it’s called entanglement – but it is still poorly understood. Why does the quantum world behave this strange way? We think we’ve solved a central piece of this puzzle."

https://aeon.co/essays/our-simple-magic-free-recipe-for-quantum-entanglement

If you're looking for a weekend podcast, here's a very interesting episode of Knowable on the placebo effect.
#SciComm #PlaceboEffect #drugdevelopment

https://overcast.fm/+oWAyCyXD0?ref=thebrowser.com

"We report the genome assembly of a female Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) with twenty-eight chromosome-length scaffolds, generated using mammoth skin preserved in permafrost for roughly 52,000 years."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.30.547175v1

Looking like a genius move for @Co_Biologists to launch their Mastodon instance this week.

#JustSaying #TwitterRIP