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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'Revealed: top #carbon #offset projects may not cut planet-heating emissions
Majority of offset projects that have sold the most carbon credits are ‘likely junk’, according to analysis by Corporate Accountability and the Guardian'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/19/do-carbon-credit-reduce-emissions-greenhouse-gases?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Climate #ClimateChange
"The moment you and your story are overwhelmed by the furious storm of the times - that's when the real novel begins."
Walter Mosley, Elements of Fiction.
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Spain, Italy and France are being impacted by drought and are using various methods to alleviate water stress for residents and farmers.
Like many other European countries which are struggling to deal with lack of water, Spain has invested to confront this problem, with a €12 billion programme designed to reuse more water, build desalination plants, and improve water infrastructure.
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We gotta love that Diesel...
Revealed: almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/20/revealed-almost-everyone-in-europe-breathing-toxic-air?CMP=share_btn_tw
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Texas teacher fired after assigning an illustrated Anne Frank book
The graphic novel adaptation released in 2018 is faithful to the original text in Anne Frank's diary.
#AureFreePress
'I was disturbed to learn how much worse McKinsey’s contributions became after I left. Reporting from ProPublica and The New York Times found that the firm helped increase arrests and speed up deportations. Some of its advice was so extreme that it made even ICE staff uncomfortable.'
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/?ref=thebrowser.com
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Mike Janes from Molecular Probes @thermofisher is at @inp_marseille this afternoon to tell us about fluorescent probes. Starts with a good quote!
'In 2021, slashings and stabbings were up more than 1,000 percent from 2011. In 2019, ProPublica found that McKinsey had “rigged” its violence-reduction numbers. (McKinsey denied this.) And in May 2022, New York City stopped using McKinsey’s system for classifying detainees. In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along.'
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/?ref=thebrowser.com
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Fruit fly neuroscience is on fire. Earlier in the year we saw this:
"Hierarchical architecture of dopaminergic circuits enables second-order conditioning in Drosophila" by Yamada et al. 2023 (Aso's group) https://elifesciences.org/articles/79042
"The Drosophila mushroom body comprises a series of dopaminergic compartments, each of which exhibits distinct memory dynamics. We find that a slow and stable memory compartment can serve as an effective ‘teacher’ by instructing other faster and transient memory compartments via a single key interneuron", SMP108.
In larval brain parlance, neuron SMP108 is an FB2N: a second-order feedback neuron, meaning, it is the second hop of the 2-hop polysynaptic pathway from MBONs to DANs. See Eschbach et al. 2020 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0607-9
'But despite the uniformity in size of any given cell type, cell sizes vary over an enormous seven orders of magnitude from red blood cells to the largest muscle fibers, comparable to the mass ratio of a shrew to a blue whale. This raises the question: What is the size distribution of cells over the entire human body?'
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An Open Letter to the Times Higher World University Rankers
Dear Rankers, I note with interest that you have announced significant changes to the methodology used in announcing this years forthcoming league tables. I would like to ask what steps you will take to make it clear to that any changes in institutional "performance" could well be explained simply by changes in the metrics and how they are combined?, I assume, as intelligent and responsible people, that you…
http://telescoper.blog/2023/09/20/an-open-letter-to-the-times-higher-world-university-rankers-2/
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I am new here, so I start with an #introduction.
I am a #sciencejournalist for the Swiss weekly #NZZaS. Until recently I was also president of the Swiss Association of Science Journalism (#SASJ).
I studied history and philosophy of science and later also biology.
As a journalist, I mainly cover biological topics such as #evolution or #infectiousdiseases, but I also write about the business of #scientificpublishing, the #historyofscience, and #interdisciplinary research approaches.
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I have no idea who originally made this graphic, but whoever you are, you are a genius.
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European governments have “systematically” shrunk their railways and starved them of funding while pouring money into expanding their road network, a report has found.
The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%, according to research from German thinktanks Wuppertal Institute and T3 Transportation. For every €1 governments spent building railways, they spent €1.6 building roads.
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Interactions between an enzyme kinase, an ion channel and cytoskeletal proteins maintain the structure of synapses involved in memory formation. https://elifesciences.org/articles/91566?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights
Mask by Madalena Parreira
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Not many editorials make me laugh out loud… but this one did https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02036-0
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Toilet of Venus (3rd Century AD), Mosaic found in environs of Philippopolis.
Mosaic shown above is of a superior quality for its elegant symmetrical structure and for detail, face of goddess reflected in mirror.
Museum of As-Suwayda, Syria
"The IMP is looking for outstanding group leaders in these areas and is particularly interested in recruiting faculty members who will use artificial intelligence, machine learning and other computational approaches to address fundamental problems in biology"
#sciencejobs
https://www.imp.ac.at/career/open-positions/ref2310-group-leader-position
Luckily, this problem is restricted to sports:
"The terms ‘data’ and ‘analytics’ are used interchangeably in sport, Smith points out, but in fact the gathering of data, fuelled by surging interest from sports teams and professional gamblers, has tended significantly to outpace the intelligent analytic use of that data."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/john-lanchester/get-a-rabbit
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
