Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

We're calling on #ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon & #OpenScience enthusiasts to help us know which communities we should be speaking with as we seek to understand the difficulties around preprint discovery. From societies, labs, preprint review groups & tech initiatives - we’d love to know them all! Here's why 🧵(1/3)

@Nature Severe #COVID19 patients have impaired #plasmacytoiddendriticcell-mediated control of #SarsCoV2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36140-9
Major alterations to #monocyte & #dendriticcell subsets lasting more than 6 mth post #COVID19/ #LongCovid
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.1082912/full?trk=public_post_comment-text
Recap -Role of #dendriticcells in #SarsCoV2 infection
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2023.2195019

Theodor W. Hänsch, from his Nobel lecture in 2005 (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/hansch/lecture

Curiosity-driven research vs oriented research

This essay comments on the @PLOSBiology research article by Cara Brook, Carly Rozins, Sarah Guth, and Mike Boots, who use #nested models to predict how virulent a newly emerging virus could be based on the physiology of its reservoir host.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002268

A primer by @alizon for @PLOSBiology about predicting the #virulence of future emerging zoonotic #viruses.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002286

"These findings indicate a discrepancy in the approval policies between the FDA and EMA and imply either that some patient groups in the USA do not get access to relevant medical treatment, or that some patient groups in the EU are treated with medicine without a positive benefit–risk balance."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(23)00357-1/fulltext

"Un barco con aires de prisión flotante en el Reino Unido para alojar solicitantes de asilo. Macrocampamentos en Grecia donde los refugiados acaban perdiendo la cabeza en condiciones de inmundicia, cuando no son cazados por los habitantes locales. O jaulas en Bulgaria."

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-09-03/la-peor-cara-de-europa-con-los-migrantes.html

"This Essay looks at the structure and culture of successful research institutes, laying out different operational strategies and highlighting points that need be taken into consideration during their implementation."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002267

📚 Attention word nerds! We asked a fellow bibliophile to review the new book 'The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary'.
https://theconversation.com/philologists-pedants-and-obsessives-how-crowd-sourcing-created-the-oxford-english-dictionary-211745?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1694416248

NHS revolt looms over ‘physician associates’ - medical consent forms should now include the line "I am happy to be treated by unqualified unregulated and often unsupervised staff because there aren't enough proper doctors because the government won't fund their training."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/doctor-revolt-looms-over-nhs-physician-associates-s0s8tdf87?shareToken=9e46f5409f41a115c8f96c650e05c3a3

'Many patient-advocacy groups are lushly funded: last year, the Alzheimer’s Association’s revenue was about half a billion dollars. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that at least eighty-three per cent of the largest groups receive money from pharmaceutical companies. “H.I.V. activism was a true grassroots movement, not one funded by drug companies,” Daniel Carpenter, the author of “Reputation and Power,” a colossal history of the F.D.A., told me. “I don’t want to say everything since then has been astroturfed. But companies do learn the lesson of ‘Oh, that’s how you get a drug through the F.D.A.’'

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/26/relyvrio-als-fda-approval

'It makes sense that Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump are effectively in alliance, and that Trump as president contemplated appointing Kennedy to head a putative “vaccine safety and scientific integrity commission.”

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/09/07/paradise-lost-rfk-jr/

'The universal and enthusiastic welcome to Thursday’s news that Britain was to rejoin the £81bn EU Horizon programme for scientific collaboration, albeit as an associate member, was a surprise – not least to the prime minister, who had dragged his feet for months in fear of the reaction of his Europhobic right.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/10/forcing-uturn-on-horizon-scientists-showing-flaws-of-brexit-can-be-overcome

@proteomicsnews blog post | HowDirty? An easy R package (feature based extraction) for contaminants! | https://proteomicsnews.blogspot.com/2023/09/howdirty-easy-r-package-feature-based.html #proteomics