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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'Kidneys even have a sense of smell. To sift hundreds of blood and urine chemicals on the fly, expelling some and husbanding others in precise quantities, kidneys employ odor receptors similar to those found in the nose. “The kidney is sniffing the urine and the blood plasma as they go by,” says Jennifer Pluznick, associate professor of physiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who discovered the organ’s olfactory gifts. “The kidney’s attention to detail is astounding. I’m convinced it has many other long-held secrets which are waiting to be discovered.”
https://lithub.com/how-our-kidneys-keep-us-healthy-and-what-it-means-when-they-fail/
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The fear of being murdered by your student with a gun Is uniquely American.
https://www.wral.com/story/unc-shooting-victim-faculty-academic-adviser/21023373/
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How the twin crises of climate change and poor public housing are harming people’s health
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A 29-year-old woman died while in US Border Patrol custody in Harlingen, #Texas. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-and-statements/statement-cbp-custody-death
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Abortion is a defining political issue for the U.S. today. At last week's GOP debate, the contenders staked out their positions. And for some, that included planning an all-out, national ban on abortions. So much for letting the states decide. We dive in deeper at #TheBigPicture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-debate-abortion-bans-2024
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Hot off the press! 📰
It took a minute, but I'm glad it's finally out:
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916231191744
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In his #JEB100 ECR Spotlight, Michael Lim tells us about his researching showing that the offspring of stressed zebrafish parents are more stress-tolerant than the offspring of unstressed parents and why there should be more support for null results, to reduce the pressure on researchers in search of high profile results
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb246534/325941
Read the full research article at https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/226/16/jeb245583/325942
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Texas construction company sued by Black employees after nooses, white supremacy symbols displayed
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ReCom: A semi-supervised approach to ultra-tolerant database search for improved identification of modified peptides | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1874391923001574?dgcid=rss_sd_all #proteomics
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Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction #OTD in 1831.
James Clerk Maxwell mathematically described it as Faraday's law of induction. Lenz's law describes the direction of the induced field. Faraday's law was later generalized to become the Maxwell–Faraday equation, one of the four Maxwell equations in his theory of electromagnetism.
'Here, once again, my personal landscape shifted and the possibility of a career in science seemed beyond my reach. I struggled to sleep at nights. I even tried distracting myself with daily 7 mile runs, every pounding step the question echoing: What do you do when you don’t know what to do?'
'Implementing a series of sustainable practices in health research could help the field to reduce its hefty carbon footprint, according to a report commissioned by health-research funder Wellcome.'
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“Dryness in Panama, low levels in the Mississippi. Low levels in the Rhine. That’s of concern to anyone that has interests in global trade.”
Gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/climate/panama-canal-drought-global-trade.html
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Cool, accessible article over at #Aeon about the strangeness and complexity of atoms and their components, and how the popular idea that atoms are mostly empty space is problematic.
(The author mentions an episode of Cosmos in which Sagan says that, and which I remember vividly despite the decades in between)
https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory
'Braxton, who is Black, decided to go to the town hall and talk to Stokes, who is white, in person. He told Stokes that he would need a key to the town hall to begin his duties. Stokes acquiesced and gave him a key, but when Braxton entered the building, he found that town hall had been stripped of its records, beyond a couple boxes of discarded items that looked like trash. He also said he noticed that Stokes had given keys to friends of his, people who were not council members and had no official business with the city, who were walking in and out of the building.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/black-mayor-alabama-town-locked-out
'The US government named 10 of the best-selling drugs as the first to face tough price regulations in a bid to slash healthcare costs, marking the biggest shake-up for the pharmaceutical industry in decades.'
https://www.ft.com/content/fa9b0422-6f93-4703-9358-6396660f63b6
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We worry about the spread of #misinformation and "alternative facts" while gating academic and scientific research behind paywalls that grossly limit public access.
'But why should you see it, or see it again? Why should you (still) care? These are fair questions to ask of any consensus masterpiece — skepticism is what keeps art alive, reverence embalms it — and especially apt in the case of “Bicycle Thieves.” The movie is about seeing and caring, about the danger of being distracted from what matters. The tragedy it depicts arises partly from poverty, injustice and the aftereffect of dictatorship, but more profoundly from a deficit of empathy.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/movies/bicycle-thieves-italian-neorealism.html
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More Americans are moving to Europe lately, and many are fleers rather than seekers, escaping violence and political strife in the United States.
In some countries the trend is clear. In 2013-22 the number of Americans in the Netherlands increased from about 15,500 to 24,000; in Portugal it tripled to almost 10,000; and in Spain it rose from about 20,000 to nearly 34,000.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/08/28/why-europe-is-a-magnet-for-more-americans
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DEADLINES EXTENDED ⬇️
Proposals to host a Civic Science Fellow and letters of interest for a Neuroscience & Society pilot grant are now due September 5!
RFP details ➡️ https://dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dana-Kavli-Civic-Science-Fellow-Partner-Opportunity.pdf
LOI details ➡️ https://dana.givingdata.com/portal/campaign/DanaFoundationLOI
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
