Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Get 'em while they're hot

“O livro vai vender muito mais graças à lamentável intervenção deste grupo de extrema-direita. Vendo isto numa perspetiva que não é comercial: o livro vai ser lido por muitas mais crianças."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/25/sociedade/opiniao/bairro-estao-ficar-complicadas-2064453

"Herein we examine the heterogeneous cardiac macrophage response following ischemic injury, with a focus on integrating putative contributions of immunometabolism and implications for therapeutically relevant cardiac injury versus cardiac repair."

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/171953

"Me, I don't have the talent, or courage, to do stand up comedy. But I know all about crashing and burning. My last lovely, beautiful grant wasn't even discussed. I'm currently awaiting the bad reviews on the next one, while I'm writing yet another one. I work very hard, and no, it doesn't feel fair."

https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/136/17/jcs261520/326613/The-system-I

'The dead were victims of what we too often label as “misinformation,” as though these victims succumbed to random junk on the internet. This was not always the case. The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement.'

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-22/antiscience-climate-change-covid-vaccines-antivax

"The dead were victims of what we too often label as “misinformation,” as though these victims succumbed to random junk on the internet. This was not always the case. The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement."

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-22/antiscience-climate-change-covid-vaccines-antivax

Nutter. Get rid, ASAP.

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@cyrilpedia also not too bad (alentejo)

This news came just as Covid started so I missed it! but v excited to learn about a new vaccine that can prevent recurrent UTIs ! the bane of *so* many women's lives.
Available privately in the UK but hopefully will be available via the NHS at some point!
https://www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/press-releases/researchers-say-vaccines-could-substantially-reduce-recurrent-urine-infections

Sustainability and molecular biology: An interview with Dr. Dustin King https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(23)00646-9?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Postdoc - Membrane Protein Transport into Cilia

University of Oxford

Exciting opportunity to join the Roberts group @Dunn_School to study how #membraneproteins are transported into #cilia using #cryoEM

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-oxford-27778-postdoc-membrane-protein-transport-into-cilia/?feed_id=59857

#ScienceJobs #hiring #res...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-oxford-27778-postdoc-membrane-protein-transport-into-cilia/?feed_id=59857

Brussels has warned social media giants Alphabet, TikTok and Meta they must do more to protect Slovakia’s election from foreign interference — or face hefty fines.

In a series of meetings in Bratislava, the European Commission and the Slovakian government told the companies to throw extra resources at stamping out hate speech, disinformation and pro-Russia propaganda in the run-up to vote.

https://www.politico.eu/article/alphabet-tiktok-meta-slovakia-election-digital-services-act/

#Slovakia #Russia #Alphabet #TikTok #Meta #Disinformation #Politics #Elections

Insect Symbiont–Host Balance
by Mechas
The diversity of life on earth is not only astounding but inundated with myriad expressions of host-symbiont relationships. Among these, microbial symbionts are so pervasive that they could be considered the rule, rather than the exception, among multicellular eukaryotes. These miniscule microbial partners have in many cases become essential for the host's capacity to interact with the environment, for...
Read more > https://tinyurl.com/533bfmet
#microbiology

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📢​ Applications for our 2024 PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning are now open!

Fully funded regardless of nationality.

ℹ️ http://ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/phd-programme

⏰ Deadline: 13 November 2023

Our managing editor, Sara Monaco, will be talking about "Review Commons: The new culture of preprint review" on day 2 of the EMBO Workshop "Centrosomes in development, disease and evolution" on Wednesday 27th Sept. Check the timetable: https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-centrosomes #EMBOcentrosomes #Centrosomes2023