Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Laboratories looking to purchase a highly efficient coiled parallel gas chromatograph could save money by instead adopting and adapting a cat. Perhaps...." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934471-900-could-a-cat-nose-function-as-a-highly-efficient-gas-chromatograph/

I want working mass transit.

#FDA approves a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the US. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-nonprescription-daily-oral-contraceptive

Slow motion picture, good thing I had my camera ready. #snail #slowmotion

https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106

at eLife, 3 papers on Homo nadeli have been published. The eLife assessment was:
This... would be a landmark finding. However, the evidence for these claims is considered inadequate in the current version of the study. The four reviewers were in strong consensus that the methods, data, and analyses do not support the primary conclusions.

So what?

Rooftop pasta in Greenpoint.

There’s fiction and non-fiction, then there are those books written by experts who provide no examples or supporting references.

'A week before New York City’s app-based delivery workers were poised to see an hourly minimum wage increase, several tech companies fired a legal salvo that has temporarily delayed this change.'

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/12/food-app-delivery-workers-minimum-wage-blocked-grubhub-uber-doordash-new-york-city

'Overall, our study identifies a previously unrecognized function of STING in negatively regulating anti-fungal immune responses and offers a potential therapeutic strategy for controlling C. albicansinfection.'
#Immunology #InnateImmunity #Fungus

https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00237-6

Democracy 101

"Um ministro não deve exercer a sua influência, que é muita, junto de alguém que está a desenvolver o seu trabalho numa empresa pública ou privada. Não gosta de determinado conteúdo, não olha."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/12/opiniao/opiniao/ligou-jose-luis-carneiro-rtp-2056495

'Using RNAseq on blood from nine primate species exposed to bacterial lipopolysaccharides, we fit phylogenetic models and discovered hypermetric scaling in innate immune gene responses. We speculate that immune allometries may lead to asymmetrical expectations for virulence of zoonotic pathogens, such that diseases originating in smaller species may cause more severe immunopathology in larger species.'
#InnateImmunity #Inflammation #Sepsis #Immunology #Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.11.548565v1

'Humans transmitted the coronavirus to white-tailed deer more than 100 times in late 2021 and early 2022, according to new research led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. The research also suggests that the virus probably spread widely among deer, that it mutated in the animals and that they may have passed these altered versions of the virus back to people at least three times.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/health/coronavirus-deer-zoonotic.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

Vietnamese woodblock folk prints often feature historical figures, social commentaries and popular folktales. This print depicts the wedding march of a rat couple and their guests, all nervously hoping the big cat will leave them alone.
#art #folklore #FolkArt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - UCSF

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Postdoctoral position available at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Mission Bay campus.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-ucsf/?feed_id=49790

#ScienceJobs #h...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf-27778-postdoctoral-research-fellow-ucsf/?feed_id=49790

A battered journal contains new information about a French botanist who travelled to Australia in 1800.

The journal offers insights into his fears and ambitions, observations, and discussions of the effects of colonisation, writes Paul Gibbard (@uwanews). https://t.co/ulolBcOOYN

6 organelles imaged simultaneously in a live cancer cell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU8eKgSidqw&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon