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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A woman walks up a hill in Lanzarote, 2006. The sun is beating down, but she'll be walking into the small shade afforded by the wall of a house.
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In #JapaneseFolklore rokurokubi are a type of #yokai appearing as regular women but with the ability to extend their necks to extraordinary lengths (or sometimes completely detach) so their heads can wander around without their bodies. Most rokurokubi just scare people rather than being dangerous. It is believed they were once real women who were transformed into yokai as a result of either a curse or punishment. I have written more about them here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2023/06/rokurokubi.html
#folklore @folklore
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"Why aren't people leaving Twitter?" - I had a call today with a colleague in Europe who manages Twitter ads (among many other tasks) and asked her our plans in light of what's been going on with the platform.
She was completely unaware of what's been going on at Twitter in recent months 🤯. It's a US thing to her so she didn't really pay attention. I'm sending her some links.
Lesson: Don't assume everyone is equally aware of what's going on.
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#IDMastodon #virology These observations suggest that BA.2.86 is more closely related to sequences from Southern Africa than other regions & so may have evolved there, and that evolution led to escape from #neutralizingantibodies similar in scale to recently circulating strains of #SARSCoV2.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295250v1.full.pdf
"One group was not strongly represented in the streets of Chicago: African Americans. They knew firsthand how well the city police deserved their reputation for brutality. When Daley spoke of the police adopting a “shoot to kill” approach to disorder, their experience taught that he was not kidding."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/seeing-was-not-believing-when-the-news-broke-hendershot/
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@medrxivpreprint
BA.2.86 showed extensive escape both relative to ancestral virus in sera from pre-Omicron vaccinated individuals and relative to Omicron BA.1 in sera from Omicron BA.1 infected individuals.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.08.23295250v1
"Journalism’s crisis began many years ago, but in her new book, When the News Broke, Heather Hendershot identifies a specific moment when broad public regard for the news media gave way to the widespread belief that they could not be trusted. This was in August 1968, during the infamous Democratic National Convention in Chicago"
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/seeing-was-not-believing-when-the-news-broke-hendershot/
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Her work paved the way for blockbuster obesity drugs. Now, she’s fighting for recognition
Svetlana Mojsov helped discover the hormone GLP-1. Why has she been excluded from its history?
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Elon Musk turning off Starlink to prevent an attack by Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian state aggression is as clear and devastating an indictment of the ancap dream of a stateless but fully-privatized world as I could have ever imagined.
Thiago Carvalho
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"Antiretroviral therapy regimens containing two active drugs rather than the traditional three are efficacious in treating HIV, but are not suitable for people with HIV and hepatitis B co-infection."
Here's what you should know about these regimens
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj-2022-071079
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"A cesspool for bigotry": Elon Musk's threats against Anti-Defamation League may backfire
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'We’re speaking out—despite pressure from the WVU administration to remain silent—because we’re impelled by our responsibility as employees and stewards of this public university to safeguard its integrity and its future.'
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/
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“Esse cenário começou a ser previsto em 2014/15 ou 2016. No tempo da crise, cerca de metade dos professores contratados que estavam na escola foram embora. Até foram aconselhados a emigrar porque não havia lugar para eles. O efeito nefasto é que as universidades e as Escolas Superiores de Educação começaram a ficar sem candidatos e a fechar os cursos."
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PhD-position in cancer biology
University of Bergen
Come join us At The Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen. A second full-time PhD-position in Cancer Biology is now available!
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-bergen-27778-phd-position-in-cancer-biology-2/?feed_id=58248
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Bergen #Norway #PhDStudent
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-bergen-27778-phd-position-in-cancer-biology-2/?feed_id=58248
"Although marketed CAR-T therapies have shown transformative efficacy for certain blood cancers, widespread adoption, as well as applicability to solid tumours and autoimmune indications, have been limited by safety, efficacy and operational hurdles. These hurdles include high rates of adverse events such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS), inability to overcome the immunosuppressive microenvironment typically found in solid tumours, and antigen escape and cell exhaustion that reduce durability."
Monkey pot. Work in progress by @hunchbacksociety #ceramics #pottery #handmade #artgallery #artmastodon
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Lab Automation & Screening Associate Scientist
DSM
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/lab-automation-screening-associate-scientist-2/?feed_id=58241
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Delft #Netherlands #ResearchAssistant #ResearchTechnician #Researcher #Scientist
https://jobrxiv.org/job/lab-automation-screening-associate-scientist-2/?feed_id=58241
"Most recent studies support the hypothesis that T cells worsen disease, but new research from Su et al.4 reported in this issue of Nature Immunology instead describes brain-infiltrating CD8+ T cells as protectors, not perpetrators, of #Alzheimer’s disease pathology."
#Immunology #Neuroimmunology
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'In addition to the complications that can occur during the acute phase of a Covid infection, there appears to be an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and other problems up to a year after an infection. Experts are now trying to understand why.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/well/live/covids-heart-health.html
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'Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, chief executive of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which has the majority of voting rights in the company, described executives asking: “Why would we do such a trial with a high risk of maybe not showing anything? Maybe it’s just the anti-diabetic effect that is responsible for the benefits we’ve seen in diabetes. What if we don’t see anything in obesity, and the trial costs hundreds of millions of dollars?”
https://www.ft.com/content/d951de90-11cc-478b-8592-8312ab9204c7
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
