Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Mass death has long been normalized on Europe’s borders. More than 27,800 people have died or disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014 — and that is most likely a large underestimate. This year is shaping up to be especially deadly."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/opinion/europe-tunisia-migration.html

“The algorithm-based approaches that people are taking are suboptimal,” says Drew Hannaman, head of R&D at Ichor Medical Systems, which obtained an empirical neoantigen selection platform after Genocea’s bankruptcy last year. “[Algorithm-based approaches] are pretty good at identifying a property that is necessary to generate immune response. But they are not comprehensive enough to identify the properties that are necessary and sufficient.” The result, Hannaman says, is “a lot of false positives”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-023-00118-5

#Introduction

Hi, I'm a #SystemsNeuroscientist at #KISNeuro in #Trondheim #Norway. Just moving over from another server.

I'm here to learn about exciting new science, explore topics loosely related to my own work, and connect with new people. I particularly like the "big" conversations about (neuro)science here that don't occur often enough in the lab.

'Predatory publishers step into this void and accustom uninformed researchers to scientific publishing that is fast and obstacle-free. Once hooked, some authors keep going back to these predatory journals, confusing speed with quality. “OMICS is open access, relatively straightforward and timely. Much less of a hassle and less arrogant than old-school society journals,” one survey respondent wrote.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

'Mark Carrigan, a digital sociologist at the Manchester Institute for Education, UK, argues that the idea that Twitter helped democratize academia “was a bit simplistic” because social media created a space where academic celebrities thrived.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0?utm_source=press.coop

Research Associate - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia

Come join our team at #UBC in beautiful #Vancouver as a Research Associate to study #TB, #pathogens, #macrophages, #immunity, and #drugdiscovery!!

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-british-columbia-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=55439

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research ...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-british-columbia-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=55439

Strategic and scientific contributions of human challenge trials for vaccine development: facts versus fantasy - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
@infectiousdiseases
#IDMastodon #medicine #humanchallengestudies #vaccine

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00294-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

#MEDMASTODON

America's Frontline Doctors is a political group holding extremist political views.

At least one of these doctors took part in the violent Jan 6th insurrection.

A 'Few Bad Apple' Docs Spread COVID Misinformation on Social Media — Findings are still "extraordinarily damning," one doctor says

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/105898?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2023-08-16&eun=g2131529d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=InvestigativeMD_081623&utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_InvestigateMD_Active

Funeral Invitation, 1688.

Funeral invitations first appeared in the 17th century, and acted as an admission ticket to both the church and the funeral feast. Pallbearers were often assigned a number on the ticket to signify their position in carrying the coffin.

#histodons #histodon #twittermigration #twitter #death #histmed #histsci #DYK

A lot has changed since my #introduction:
Now I'm a #postdoc in Liège (Belgium) trying to figure out how #neuroethology works.
I will be working with two #Peromyscus species.
My focus is the processing of #smell, especially #predator #odours, but most likely also #SocialOdors

I'm still looking for more #AnimalBehaviour, #BehavioralEcology, and #ChemicalEcology folks to follow!

#AnimalBehavior
#biology
#ecology
#mammals
#science
#ethology
#Evolution
#ChemicalCommunication
#semiochmistry

Updating Horizontal Gene Transfer
by Mechas and Roberto
We recently prepared a lecture that included a brief discussion of bacterial evolution. Of course, we covered horizontal gene transfer (HGT), which we consider a key pillar in the evolutionary process. We dutifully began our presentation by listing, perforce: transformation, conjugation, and transduction.

Read more → https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2023/08/updating-horizontal-gene-transfer.html

#microbiology #molecularBiology

A rare #nature paper with negative results: "No evidence for magnetic field effects on the behaviour of Drosophila"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06397-7 Lots of hard work over a span of six years, large sample size (= number of fruitflies) and rigorous #stats Debunking science is hard work - this paper is very well done. #science #fruitflies #drosophila

The Nation published a damning story about the depth of Harvard's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-harvard-summers/

I have no doubt that almost all of it is true.

However, there's an egregious lapse in fact-checking that does a serious injustice to Stephen Jay Gould. In the story, Alan Dershowitz claims that Gould was a regular at Program for Evolutionary Dynamics events at One Brattle Square.

Gould died in 2002. Nowak came to Harvard and opened the One Brattle Square facility in 2003.

Senior Scientist, Proteomics Chemical Biology at Pfizer in Cambridge, MA 02139 | Black Enterprise https://jobs.blackenterprise.com/jobs/senior-scientist-proteomics-chemical-biology-cambridge-ma-02139-135152175-d #proteomics

'The National Institutes of Health is releasing a comprehensive dataset that standardizes genomic, proteomic, imaging, and clinical data from individual studies of more than 1,000 tumors across 10 cancer types.'

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-unveils-comprehensive-proteogenomic-dataset-help-cancer-researchers-unravel-molecular-mysteries