Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #Ceramics #Stoneware #Art #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon https://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

I am incredibly sad to say that Michael Ashburner passed away last night after a long illness. A giant of fly genetics and biology he was also very influential in the development of bioinformatics. I will be eternally grateful for the kindness and support he showed me. RIP

Following on from, ‘The importance of stupidity in scientific research’, Martin Schwartz, together with Alpha Yap, share their essay on the ‘The importance of character development in scientific research’.
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/13/jcs261405/322682/The-importance-of-character-development-in

You can also read Martin’s essay on, The importance of indifference in scientific research’: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/128/15/2745/55123/The-importance-of-indifference-in-scientific

#cellbiology #research

'The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, and Medicare said it would cover much of its high cost, laying the foundation for widespread use of a medication that can modestly slow cognitive decline in the early stages of the disease but also carries significant safety risks.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/health/alzheimers-leqembi-medicare.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

'Recently, complement-mediated AEs have emerged as contributing to immune-mediated toxicities, specifically in high-dose systemic delivery of AAV vectors. Because animal models have not shown a direct role of complement in AAV mediated toxicities, detailed mechanistic studies are lacking.'

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1227231/full

I've finally decided to experiment with Mastodon, so here's an #introduction #histodons

I'm a historian of science, technology, and neoliberalism. My first book (coming out Spring 2024) investigates the digitalisation and privatisation of Britain's telecom infrastructure, and I've recently started a new project on the history of futurology in British government.

I grew up and went to university in London, and now I work at Maastricht University, in the History department and STS research programme.

I had a Twitter account but was shocking at actually using it. Twitter always felt a bit too "broadcast" and exposing for me, which I think I reacted to by only posting declarations and announcements (when I posted at all). I'd like to be more active here and I hope there's more space for dialogue and interaction. Thanks for reading!

@cyrilpedia

Writing almost 30 years ago #CarlSagan worried about a country poorly educated in #science

Has has foreboding been realized?

Cryptic #sexChromosome was found after removing a master sex-determining #chromosome. This result suggests that #polygenic #sexDetermination system may be more prevalent than previously thought.

Open access article by Kitano et al. now available ahead of print!

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724840

Weegee

New York. “Max is rushing in the bagels to a Second Avenue restaurant, one morning in 1940.”

New study by Jacob L. Yates et al. introduces new tools enabling natural #behavioranalysis in untrained subjects, revealing accurate #visual #receptivefields and tuning curves in marmoset monkeys, highlighting the potential of free viewing for studying #neuralresponses and natural #behaviordynamics.

📔 Yates, Coop, Sarch, et al., "Detailed characterization of neural selectivity in free viewing primates", Nat Commun 14, 3656 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38564-9

#Neuroscience

US CDC is apparently planning to reduce funding for states' childhood vaccination programs.

Once again, the most vulnerable with the least influence are going to bear the consequences of poor policy choices.

"The targeted cut will affect programs that identify communities vulnerable to disease outbreaks, said Hannan. This information is used to prevent and manage outbreaks, ... "

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-childhood-vaccinations-programs-funding-cut-public-health/

This is not good.

"Changes to the primary end point during or after recruitment were omnipresent in randomized clinical trials with immune checkpoint inhibitors for patients with UC, RCC, and NSCLC. Most common were switching to or adding OS as an outcome measure and subpopulations based on PD-L1 expression. Ultimately, published data often do not allow readers to infer what the results would have been if the primary outcome had not been changed."

#Immunology #Immunotherapy #immunooncology #checkpointinhibitors

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2805960?guestAccessKey=c026475f-ec3b-48fb-886a-41ab2e638826&utm_source=linkedin_company&utm_medium=social_jamaonc&utm_term=10276892794&utm_campaign=article_alert&linkId=218897512

'Story is now so valued that, in many realms, it has become compulsory—consider the recitations required of asylum seekers or rape victims, who are penalized or dismissed if the parameters of their stories do not readily conform to the genre.
And if a story betrays us? The solution, it seems, is to cast about for a better one.'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-bewitching-the-modern-mind-christian-salmon-the-story-paradox-jonathan-gottschall-book-review