Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

@ElisabethBik scanned 20621 papers for fraudulent figures 1995 to 2014, and found 2% of fraud. The real % is almost certainly much higher
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00809-16 #BC2basel

The Home Science Labs of English Noblewomen: elite women in eighteenth-century England pursued scientific inquiry by distilling products for medicinal use. https://daily.jstor.org/the-home-science-labs-of-english-noblewomen/

The Good Virus: The Untold Story Of Phages By Tom Ireland — Review, published by HodderBooks, 2023

by @GrrlScientist via ForbesScience / Forbes

An engaging book about the viruses that prey on bacteria, packed with inspirational stories of eccentric scientists, medical miracles and interwoven with how science and history affect each other

#books #BookReview #microbiology #ecology #viruses https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/09/11/the-good-virus-the-untold-story-of-phages-by-tom-ireland---review/

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from #COVID19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that balked at community masking."

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/it-s-aerosol-stupid-the-professor-who-challenged-medical-chiefs-20230814-p5dw8p

I wish I'd written this story on the upcoming Covid booster launch and what we can expect from the updated vaccines. From the inimitable @sciencecohen. https://www.science.org/content/article/should-i-get-covid-19-booster

🌟️ Long COVID, which occurs in 10% of infections and which is not fully prevented by vaccines, is becoming an exclusion criteria for any kind of insurance — including travel, disability, and life.

The actuaries know.

I can't even...

On this day in 1904: Ludwik Gross born, demonstrated viruses cause cancer in mammals #ThisDayInBiotech

Interested in how cells influence their neighbours?

Want a flexible, sensitive, unbiased approach to explore neighbour responses?

Tamina Lebek presents PUFFFIN: Positive Ultra-bright Fluorescent Fusion For Identifying Neighbours

PUFFFIN has SO MANY great features and we are very excited about using it to understand development, homeostasis, and disease

Here are some of the clever tricks that Tamina thought up to make this system so useful...

1/n

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.06.556381v1

Une découverte hier soir : Rembrandt x Astérix
Quand Goscinny et Uderzo parodiaient la célèbre leçon d'anatomie du Dr Tulp.
Album "Le Devin" page 10 😉

#histoire #anatomie #medecine #histoiredelamedecine #histoiredelamédecine #BD #bandedessinee #asterix #asterix

Come join us! The Hearing Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania has an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in auditory systems neuroscience to join our team. Applications are accepted on rolling basis, with preference given to applications received by Oct 16.
https://www.med.upenn.edu/pennhearing/

Application is available here: https://apply.interfolio.com/100900

For the CRISPR Fan(zor)atics: RNA-guided DNA endonucleases discovered in eukaryotes https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00655-X?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You go through a lot of interns...

'Until recently, the only reliable way to determine the age of a polar bear has been to extract a premolar and inspect its growth rings. “No researcher wants to do it,” Dr. Woodruff said'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/science/wildlife-aging-epigenetic-clocks.html

'His cabinet—the first to include a peasant and an industrial worker as ministers—had undertaken a series of reforms, the most impressive of which was the nationalization of the enormous copper mines, until then owned by predatory US corporations'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/defending-allende-ariel-dorfman/

We're in the basement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRr_TqLDf4

https://madalenaparreira.com