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
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Two receptors that alter the migration of developing T cells play complementary roles in preventing autoimmune diseases in mice. https://elifesciences.org/digests/80443/the-path-to-self-tolerance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
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Sickening: "U.S. climate envoy John Kerry ruled out paying into a global fund to help poorer nations stricken by the devastating impacts of the climate emergency, saying that 'under no circumstances' would the White House consider delivering on reparations."
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eLife has recently opened applications for their 2023 Ben Barres Spotlight Awards: a funding scheme that supports the work of researchers from groups traditionally underrepresented in biology and medicine and countries with limited funding.
Awards of up to $5,000 are available to authors of Reviewed Preprints in addition to eLife authors.
The deadline for applications is August 8.
https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/f56fb3c2/ben-barres-spotlight-awards-applications-open-for-2023
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Business as usual.
' But Dan Cohn, global energy transition researcher at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, said that the oil industry’s climate plans should not be taken at “face value”.
“They have left no doubt that their pledges were deployed for cynical political purposes, only to be ditched when they no longer suited the industry’s strategic position,” he said.” '
#OilCompanies #ClimatePledges #Lies #Profiteering #ClimateChange
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Our new study is now published at @naturebiotech as open access. What is in it? Online Whole-Body Mouse Atlases, tertiary lymphatic structures (TLS) in the whole mouse along cancer, and more. Meet wildDISCO, thread 👇🏼
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01846-0
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This week we'll get entombed in the Miocene Dominican Amber. This site is easily among the best amber sites in the world yielding a rich array of organisms including spiders, insects, parasites, and flora.
#DAWeek #Paleontology
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The team that worked out the Apollo 11 trajectories from Earth to the Moon included Katherine Johnson. She also performed calculations for how the Apollo Lunar Module would rejoin the Command and Service Module back in orbit
Image: NASA
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#NewPaper #Paleontology #Pterosaurs
Hone, David W.E., Lauer, René, Lauer, Bruce, and Spindler, Frederik. 2023. Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26(2):a25.
https://doi.org/10.26879/1251
palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3878-a-new-solnhofen-pterosaur
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How we can teach children so they survive AI – and cope with whatever comes next | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/08/teach-children-survive-ai #AI #education
'In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length. Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is one of the two or three novels that I love most. But don’t ask me to admire its gigantic unfinished expanse! Imagine a castle so huge that the eye cannot take it all in at a glance. Imagine a string quartet that lasts nine hours. There are anthropological limits—human proportions—that should not be breached, such as the limits of memory. When you have finished reading, you should still be able to remember the beginning. If not, the novel loses its shape, its “architectonic clarity” becomes murky.'
- Milan Kundera
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2977/the-art-of-fiction-no-81-milan-kundera
From Madalena Parreira's relief etchings on copper (1999-2006).
#Prints #Print #printmaking #printmakingart #printmaker #etching #artgallery #artmastodon
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A peek inside the gorgeous entomology notebook of a 19th century naturalist. https://blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/2023/07/bugging-out-over-jacob-stauffers-sketches-of-insects-1859-1880/
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Thousands evacuated as Spanish island wildfire out of control https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/thousands-evacuated-spanish-island-wildfire-out-control-2023-07-16/ #WEATHER/SPAIN #WILDFIRE(PIX) #EUROPE
'Little did I know that, even if the field of Spanish was still somewhat shielded from the fallout, the humanities were already being dismantled, and the 2008 financial crisis would bring a long-term reckoning.'
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-humanities-are-worth-fighting-for/
'Here, using an unbiased proteomics approach, we questioned the relationship between Aβ and age-related protein insolubility. We demonstrate that, in C. elegans, Aβ expression is sufficient to drive proteome-wide protein insolubility.'
#Preprint
Promising news, vivax is the dominant plasmodium species in many regions - including Brazil.
"Here, Hou et al. report encouraging clinical trial results testing the safety and efficacy of two vaccine candidates, both based on the P. vivax Duffy-binding protein region II (PvDBPII). One of the vaccine candidates, an adjuvanted PvDBPII protein vaccine, elicited the strongest antibody responses, particularly when delivered in a delayed dosing regimen."
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Today’s weird fact from nature: When fruit #flies see other dead fruit flies, their life spans are cut short. Other species also undergo analogous physiological changes when seeing their dead 🪰
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While we’re worrying about AI, the bollards are planning a global revolution...
'I remember being considerably less excited about seeing Ellie’s dad than Ellie was when I saw Contact in high school. I wanted to see a big, honking, slimy, giant-brained, gelatinous alien, not acclaimed character actor David Morse.'
https://newrepublic.com/article/172104/tantalizing-lonely-search-alien-life-jaime-green-book-review
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
