Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Thiago Carvalho
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Good read, from the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/10/westminster-scotland-proposal-decriminalise-drugs-brave-enough
Scottish politicians have the courage to decriminalise drugs, but Westminster is too timid to let them.
This is hard-hitting, "This debate is not really about drugs but about political courage. It echoes the discussion on capital punishment in the 1960s. Few dared advocate abolition, until a brave home secretary, Roy Jenkins, faced down his officials and got parliament to ban the rope."
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𝙀𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝙨 of editorial boards show how conventional #scholarlypublishing is becoming unsustainable!
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📢 Exciting news @erturklab. WildDISCO: Unlocking the Secrets of Whole Body Immunolabeling and Optical Clearing." 🌟✨ Discover a groundbreaking method for comprehensive visualization in biological specimens like never before! 🧬🔬 @hongchengm @jieluo692 @naturebiotech 👇
"Oppenheimer’s son Peter refused a formal interview, so Sherwin brought his family to the Pecos Wilderness near Santa Fe, saddled up a horse and rode to the Oppenheimers’ rustic cabin, wrangling a chance to talk to the scientist’s son as the two men built a fence. “Marty never thought he was a great interviewer,” said Susan Sherwin, who accompanied him on many research trips, and survives him. But he had a knack for connecting with people.
(A 1963 portrait of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of the biography “American Prometheus” and a new film based on the book.Credit...Eddie Adams/Associated Press)"
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Less than half of approved first indications for new drugs in the US and Europe between 2011 and 2020 were rated as having high therapeutic value, finds new study
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj-2022-074166
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Children's vaccination rates have been falling to dangerous levels since the beginning of the pandemic. Now more than ever do we need funding for child vaccination programs. This is not the time to reduce funding.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-childhood-vaccinations-programs-funding-cut-public-health/
If you like pina colada
"Flow cytometry for immune characterization in homogenized mouse brain: A systematic review"
#preprint #Immunology
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.06.547972v1?med=mas
'I had repeatedly heard, “Immunology will never be a therapy for cancer patients.” Then Jim Allison started presenting patients who were responding to anti–CTLA-4, and all of a sudden, we went from night to day.'
- Elizabeth Jaffee
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Dr. Kristian Andersen has a firey opening statement for the COVID Inquisition this week.
It's really very clear, thoughtful, and detailed in its deconstruction of pretty much the whole web of conspiracy theories. Also very accessible.
Highly recommend reading it.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Testimony-of-Dr.-Kristian-Andersen.pdf
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Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies https://go.nature.com/3PXs1Zw
'This stage was reached in the early forties, i.e., at the time when Oswald T. Avery and his collaborators began to work on the transformation of pneumococci, and Delbruck and Luria on the phages of E. coli, although Avery's laboratory was much more receptive to the application of chemistry than was the other group. It is really with Avery that there began what I have called, in my title, the chemical education of genetics. It is, perhaps, characteristic of the way in which science operates that the educator was neither a geneticist nor a chemist. The learning process was slow and weary: the card-carrying members of the guild and their assorted acolytes refused as long as possible, and even beyond that point, to take cognizance.'
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I've uploaded our BBS paper on "proxy failure" — analogues of Goodhart's Law across scales ranging from molecular biology to neuroscience to business to ecology — on ResearchGate.
#Neuroscience #Biology #Economics #Ecology #Evolution #ReinforcementLearning
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I’m starting a new series over on Unprofessoring—my Substack newsletter—about scientific publishing. Have a read, and let me know your thoughts in the comments! You don’t have to subscribe to read or join the discussion!
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#OTD 10 July 1985 The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
'Here we find that, in addition to suppressing appetite, GDF15 counteracts compensatory reductions in energy expenditure, eliciting greater weight loss and reductions in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) compared to caloric restriction alone.'
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The #Dutch #government does the only sensible thing and no longer wants to use a commercial actor like #Twitter. They installed their own #Mastodon #instance on social.overheid.nl . Of course! They have their own e-mail service, it's only logical you have your own micro-blogging/information service as well. 🙌🏼👏🏼
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A re #introduction: I'm a PhD scientist-turned-journalist, now a reporting fellow @STAT News, where I'm covering #biotech for the next 1.5 mo.
I've also covered and am interested in #healthcare, #AI, #PFAS, the #NIH and #science / #research
Got press releases, tips, or story ideas? Send 'em to brittany.trang@statnews.com or 231-818-8189 on Signal.
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Opportunity to host a Civic Science Fellow in Neuroscience and Society
The Dana and Kavli Foundations seek to support TWO host partner organizations to each host a Civic Science Fellow. Fellows will be given the opportunity to explore the ethical and societal implications accompanying developments in neuroscience.
More details can be found here: https://dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dana-Kavli-Civic-Science-Fellow-Partner-Opportunity.pdf
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See the August issue of Trends in Microbiology @TrendsMicrobiol online with a beautiful cover art that Lizah van der Aart has prepared for us, highlighting the review of Mark Lyng - Frenemies of the soil: Bacillus and Pseudomonas interspecies interactions
https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/issue?pii=S0966-842X(22)X0009-7
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"Of the 42 #pregnancy associated deaths the committee analyzed between 2018 and 2021, all but one – or 98% – were found to be preventable."
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
