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
Thiago Carvalho
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Trump met with pharma lobbyists and nixed his promise to have Medicare negotiate drug prices.
Biden just announced Medicare would negotiate drug prices on ten popular drugs used by millions of seniors.
The first is empty talk. The second is bold action.
'The field of evolutionary biology lost a great one on May 18, 2023. Known for his mathematical rigor and tenacity in population genetic and phylogenetic analysis, no one has had a greater impact on the emergence of a formal field of molecular evolution than Masatoshi Nei.'
'Ann Al Sawoor não conseguiu voltar ao Iraque. Nunca se esquecerá quando os jihadistas invadiram a sua cidade e a torturam, a si e à sua família. Ann Al Sawoor teve de deixar o país. “Sou cristã, mulher e cientista. Os jihadistas não aceitam”, conta a matemática, que agora vive e faz investigação em França. “A ciência é a minha vida.”
Thiago Carvalho
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The panic about trans youth is funded by and part of a larger strategy to privatize education:
"Thus was set the formula that billionaires from David Koch in that era to Betsy DeVos in this day use to push for the destruction of public education..."
Republicans and right-wing billionaires want a nation of uneducated serfs - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/gop-news/
'In his memoir, he wrote of doubting his own senses when he first saw the devastation from two miles away: “The whole city was covered in dark clouds and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions … I was terribly afraid. It was then that black drops of rain, as big as raspberries, began to fall.”
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Know her name: Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) made contributions to #astronomy that are still important to the field today.
And she’s just one in a long line of female astronomers who did not receive the credit they were due and whose work was used to justify prizes for male scientists instead.
#astronomy #womeninstem @histodons #womenshistory
https://theconversation.com/caroline-herschel-was-the-first-female-astronomer-but-she-still-lacks-name-recognition-two-centuries-later-210768
'Researchers in China have found evidence suggesting that 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern humans suffered a massive population crash. They point to a drastic change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
You'll never guess what happened next.
"The goal was to generate agreement on legally binding shared principles before the next pandemic, with sufficient authority to promote engagement at the highest levels of government.
That was nearly two years ago."
https://www.ft.com/content/17fec31b-909e-4bea-8c0f-cc3e2a597cd8
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'However, when he tested these high-molecular-weight polysaccharides in animal models, he was quite disappointed to find that they were not immunogenic. Confident that he had the solution, he then decided to inject himself with the high-molecular-weight polysaccharide and made the seminal discovery that the vaccination induced a strong immune response.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
To quote Dr Frank N Further from Rocky Horror... 🫧
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'Recent description of the developmental stages along the differentiation trajectory of T cell exhaustion has provided insight into past immunotherapeutic success and future opportunities. Here, we discuss the hallmarks of distinct developmental stages occurring along the path to T cell dysfunction and the impact of these discrete CD8+ T cell fates on cancer immunotherapy.'
#Immunology
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'In an ideal world, the authors would engage collaboratively with journals and those who have raised concerns on determining how to adjust the scientific record to account for these problems, and journals would post updates quickly. This rarely happens, and that needs to change.'
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-31/stanford-marc-tessier-lavigne-science-retractions
Thiago Carvalho
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'Those suffering from long Covid often feel forgotten, in part because the medical establishment is struggling to define, let alone treat, this new condition. As Jana Javornik, a lecturer at Leeds university who suffers from long Covid, told the FT a few months ago, “We are all neglecting that long Covid is not rare and it is a health crisis.”'
#COVID #LongCovid
https://www.ft.com/content/5f547155-787c-4c60-966d-50b48d908a2a
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'Poland is also the E.U.’s biggest operator of mink farms. One obvious worry is whether the minks are getting sick with H5N1 and mink meat is somehow contaminating the food chain and eventually reaching the cats.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1.html
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted | Biological Reviews
by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience / @Forbes
#biodiversity #extinction https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
In 2002, there was a vision to promote & strengthen the genomic sciences in Mexico sustainably through the establishment of an Undergraduate Program in Genomic Sciences. Twenty years later, this vision has impacted science in Mexico and the world. #LCG20🇲🇽
https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/veinte-anos-de-la-licenciatura-en-ciencias-genomicas/
'Earlier, the Colada boys had found evidence of fraud in a paper co-authored by Duke professor Dan Ariely. The real juicy bit? There’s a paper written by both Ariely and Gino in which they might have independently faked the data for two separate studies in the same article. Oh, and the paper is about dishonesty.'
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss
'However, when he tested these high-molecular-weight polysaccharides in animal models, he was quite disappointed to find that they were not immunogenic. Confident that he had the solution, he then decided to inject himself with the high-molecular-weight polysaccharide and made the seminal discovery that the vaccination induced a strong immune response.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Ancient scorpion trapped in amber
#FossilFriday https://www.scielo.br/j/jvatitd/a/NGR7dTyggrnGBSxvQ6pdSJs/#
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
