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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Covid Article: Italian study shows ventilation in classrooms can reduce covid cases by 82%
Here's a peer reviewed journal article published at the end of last year reporting the study's findings (Thank you Prof Lupton for the extra details).
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver
#CleanAirBrigade
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1087087/full
The American Museum of Natural History is one of my favourite places - it was great to visit again, crowds & all. When we lived in New York, I was a volunteer at the museum - I recommend the program to anyone living in the city (you don't have to be a scientist, in my group there was everything from lawyers to bodega owners).
'There are few constants within the world of weight loss, but one concept holds up: No matter how you lose weight — through restrictive eating, bariatric surgery or the new, buzzy class of injectable medications like Ozempic and Wegovy — you’re also probably shedding muscle'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/well/ozempic-wegovy-risks-older.html
Don't be this speaker:
'My discomfort grew as everyone else gave their answers. When my turn came, I swallowed and said I was in my sixth year. “I think if someone takes more than 5 years the student is the problem,” the speaker replied tersely. I was devastated.'
https://www.science.org/content/article/my-ph-d-took-long-time-and-there-s-no-shame
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'Threads in a textbook triumph of enthusiasm over experience. I’m sure that creating free content for a social-media platform run by an unaccountable billionaire will turn out differently this time, we tell ourselves, as though we were all born yesterday.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/twitter-threads-new-suggested-rules/674709/
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Why we think every scholarly organization, but in particular scholarly societies, should not just migrate to #Mastodon, but host their own instances - and what that has to do with the journals many scholarly societies use to generate revenue:
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Early days, but this is worth keeping an eye on:
"Other aspects of the donanemab trial are likely to be especially intriguing to Alzheimer’s experts. Patients stopped receiving donanemab and were switched to a placebo if their amyloid was cleared below a certain threshold. About half reached the threshold within a year, and their decline kept slowing even after they stopped receiving donanemab."
'We developed Complementarity-Driven Deferral to Clinical Workflow (CoDoC), a system that can learn to decide between the opinion of a predictive AI model and a clinical workflow. CoDoC enhances accuracy relative to clinician-only or AI-only baselines in clinical workflows that screen for breast cancer or tuberculosis (TB).'
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The story of the current generation of anti-obesity drugs from early failures with leptin & ghrelin told by one of its pioneers, Matthias Tschöp. A new podcast project, you can listen to "#Obesity is a brain disease" by scrolling down at the link below.
#science #metabolism #neuroscience #sciencecommunication #sciencepodcast #scicomm
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'One of China’s most populous provinces has deleted mortality data that offered an indication of the heavy death toll from Beijing’s relaxation of Covid-19 controls at the end of last year.'
https://www.ft.com/content/a634d844-5298-441b-b2e8-0eabe0b3c1d7
'Heatwaves are becoming more common in all parts of the world, but Europe is warming faster than the global average because of its high percentage of land mass and its position on the Earth’s surface.'
https://www.ft.com/content/c5882156-cd08-46b8-be8f-cb14f45b8f77
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*** No need to miss out on #SMBE2023!
Remote access registration is still open at https://www.smbe2023.org/
(US$ 75 to register)
We look forward to seeing you on GatherTown!
@SMBEmeetings
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The story of the current generation of anti-obesity drugs from early failures with leptin & ghrelin told by one of its pioneers, Matthias Tschöp. A new podcast project, you can listen to "#Obesity is a brain disease" by scrolling down at the link below.
#science #metabolism #neuroscience #sciencecommunication #sciencepodcast #scicomm
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A 5000 year old Sumerian house plan displayed on a clay tablet, from Ur, Iraq. It is considered the oldest architectural plan in the world. #PastTimes
via Brian Roemmele from Twitter
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Very happy to share our newly published #article "Sex differences in pituitary corticotroph excitability".
It is well known that sex differences exist in stress-related disorders, with women having twice the lifetime rate of depression compared to men and most anxiety disorders.
Corticotroph cells in the pituitary gland are a key player in the generation of hormonal stress responses. However, their contribution to sexually differential responses of the stress axis (which might underlie differences in stress-related disorders) is very poorly understood.
We found sex differences in the electrical activity of these cells, which could be related to differences in their gene expression pattern.
These findings shed light on the cellular mechanisms underlying sex differences in stress responses, contributing to a better understanding of stress-related disorders and potential avenues for diagnosis and treatment.
#stress #pituitary #research #electrophysiology #physiology #corticotrophs #hpa #anxiety
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2023.1205162/full
'David Morales, dueño de la empresa de seguridad española UC Global, SL, espió presuntamente para la CIA las reuniones en 2018 del expresidente de Ecuador Rafael Correa (2007-2017) con los antiguos mandatarios de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff y José Mujica, según se desprende de un nuevo volcado de su ordenador portátil MacBook ordenado por el juez de la Audiencia Nacional Santiago Pedraz, que le investiga desde hace tres años por distintos delitos.'
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New posting! This addresses the recent controversy at the 2023 Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting, where one of the speakers used his time to complain that he felt discriminated against as a white man.
To my mind, that isn't what's surprising and shocking about the episode.
The surprising thing is that on this occasion, a courageous young female scientist actually called him out on it.
The shocking thing is that despite such sexist, chauvinistic comments still being commonplace, such interventions basically never happen. And they should. #womeninstem
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
