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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Marko Marjanović, Ana-Matea Mikecin Dražić, Marijeta Kralj
and colleagues discover that salinomycin disrupts Golgi function, clarifying the mechanism of Sal sensitivity to in cells undergoing EMT.
Highlight: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/17/e136_e1701/326604/Salinomycin-hits-EMT-cancer-cells-where-it-hurts
Article: https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/17/jcs260934/326599/Salinomycin-disturbs-Golgi-function-and
'In Brazil, where we come from, English education is superficial, especially in public schools (...) Expensive private courses are beyond the possibilities of most of the population, but they are the only way to achieve proficiency without leaving the country.'
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Our Research Integrity Manager Matt Hodgkinson is speaking today at the Irish National Research Integrity Forum Community of Practice on how RI is supported in UK higher education. https://www.iua.ie/for-researchers/research-integrity/ #ResearchIntegrity
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Happy #EMmonday! This week we are highlighting research from Riley Cooney, Eszter Vladar and colleagues. They find that DKK3 and WNT4 work together to enable a switch from canonical to non-canonical Wnt signalling during multiciliogenesis.
'The social media company formerly known as Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK, or Canada.'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/04/twitter-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses
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Public #OpenScience online lecture for #OSCSummerSchool23
🔥 Prof Felix Schönbrodt @nicebread, managing director of @lmu_osc
🎯 Data sharing
📅 14.09 at 09:00 CEST
More info: https://malikaihle.github.io/OSC-Open-Research-Summer-School-2023/
Free registration: https://www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/lectures/
'Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true'
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Join us for our latest FREE webinar on Wednesday 20th September from 10:00 - 11:00 BST.
Learn about the process of fixing errors and misconceptions about corrections, focusing on journal articles, and more.
Speakers:
Lauren Flintoft, Research Integrity Officer, IOP Publishing
Gráinne McNamara, Research Integrity/Publication Ethics Manager, Karger Publishers
'The UK National Health Service was an early funder of Cochrane and its UK-based groups. Later, the NIHR provided support, mainly paying for support staff to help produce reviews.
So when the NIHR confirmed in August 2021 that it would stop funding all the UK-based review groups, the news came as a shock'
'In the study, three participants received autologous OTQ923 after myeloablative conditioning and were followed for 6 to 18 months. At the end of the follow-up period, all the participants had engraftment and stable induction of fetal hemoglobin'
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2215643?query=featured_home
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I just learned about the COOLEST program! It's called "Letters to a Pre-Scientist" and if you sign up, you volunteer to be a pen pal to a kid and help them get excited for a career in a #STEM field! It sounds like a wonderful opportunity for #ScienceMastodon to do some good in the world. The program is open to anyone in STEM over 18, all around the world. Please share this post, they need more volunteers!
https://prescientist.org/volunteers/
#science #space #Physics #Math #Dev #IndieDev #medicine #Research
'Rishi Sunak refused to properly fund a school rebuilding programme when he was chancellor, despite officials presenting evidence that there was “a critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels'
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September 4, 1795, birthday of geologist Friedrich August von Alberti.
In 1834 he named the Triassic System after three geological formations - the Buntsandstein (Red Sandstone deposited on dry land), the Muschelkalk (fossiliferous limestone deposited in a shallow sea) and Keuper (Black Shale of the deep sea) - he studied.
Even if those formations are found only in Germany, the name is still used for the Trias or Triassic Period (251,9-201,4 million years) today.
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@WhatisBiotechnology This is a quantum mechanically simulated molecule of cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) doing a lovely pirouette in honour of Karl Folkers birthday!
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The costs of being a non-native English speaker in science
"To date, the task of overcoming language barriers has largely been left to non-native English speakers’ efforts and their investment in ways of improving their English skills. However, the magnitude of the disadvantage, quantified in this study, seems far beyond the level that can be overcome with individuals’ efforts. We urgently need a concerted effort..."
We can all think about this, how we can help.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184
'The Irish government is taking legal advice over the possibility of mounting a court challenge to controversial UK legislation expected to be passed at Westminster in the coming days that would offer an amnesty for atrocities committed during Northern Ireland’s three decades-long Troubles conflict.'
https://www.ft.com/content/32acbfb9-75a8-4969-8315-a3e57e10221b
'In 1961, at the National Congress on Medical Quackery, the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pointed out that, along with actual snake oils and other nostrums, bottled seawater was being sold for up to twenty dollars a gallon as a “panacea for virtually all human ailments.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval
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Update. "Despite English being the lingua franca of science, getting an excellent level of English is a privilege of few, restricted to high-income countries or those who can pay for intense language training in Global South countries. Yet, most of the hiring calls from Global North research institutes urging inclusion conflate being a good scientist with being good (or excellent) at English. This isn’t true."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/english-may-be-sciences-native-language-but-its-not-native-to-all-scientists/
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Join our September Community Call speaker Nonia Pariente @npariente, to discuss perspectives on preprint peer review models.
Nonia is the Editor-in-Chief @PLOSBiology, a journal that has partnered with a number of preprint peer-review services to expedite the peer-review process.
Register 👇
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOitqj4vGt0XdaThTisd2y3F2JGgcOeS#/registration
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
