Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

A bit of a #introduction for all my new followers:

Listen: you're gonna get some posts about fruit flies. I can't stop it, it just happens. They got me good. Plus #Infection #Microbiome #Immunity #Evolution 🦠

But I also follow this #AcademicChatter and #PublishOrPerish conversation closely, and obviously #ScientificPublishing 👍

Damn.

'That morning at the lab, Karikó’s old boss had come to see her off. She did not tell him what a terrible mistake he was making in letting her leave. She didn’t gloat about her future at BioNTech, a pharmaceuticals firm that millions now associate with lifesaving vaccines but was then a relative upstart in the field. Instead the woman who had bounced from department to department, with no tenure prospects and never earning over $60,000 a year, said with total confidence: “In the future, this lab will be a museum. Don’t touch it.”

https://www.glamour.com/story/katalin-kariko-biontech-women-of-year-2021

'My own dismay and rage have lasted. The casual way in which all of our works were taken without permission and tossed into the AI blender feels like a violation. The one novel I have in this mix is hardly War and Peace — but it stings that none of these corporate behemoths thought to ask thousands of writers if we wished to contribute to AI models that might eventually replace us.'

https://www.ft.com/content/6342aa55-a776-4268-af0a-29bdae082ee3

'(...) Karikó “never received an R01 one grant from [the National Institutes of Health] which is a clear sign that she struggled and didn't get recognition for the importance of her vision"

https://www.science.org/content/article/mrna-discovery-paved-way-covid-19-vaccines-wins-nobel-prize-physiology-medicine?utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsfromScience

"Scholars and publishers have our own unique areas of expertise, responsibilities, and experiences of the manifold crises into which higher education is perpetually forced. But at base, scholars’ working conditions are publishers’ working conditions. If we want to change these conditions, we have to begin by recognizing—and working together to find—our common ground. Manufactured austerity; corporatization; competition over supposedly scarce resources; attrition and downsizing; mass PhD production; adjunctification; shrinking enrollments; escalating expectations to publish or perish; and, of course, the ongoing devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the right’s war against academic freedom: these issues affect us all."

https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/

First post on Mastodon! Many thanks to @kristinHenry for giving me a spot on vis.social :)

Recent illustration work on the neutrophils that migrate to cancers in the brain. 🧠

Read the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dN7JtZ5x

This was a wonderful project to work on! Many thanks to Johanna Joyce and Roeltje Maas for the trust.

"I'll have what she's having!" Why do females choose particular mates? @EmilyHDuVal @servedio1 &co propose that mate choices rely on context-dependent social information, explaining major puzzles in the study of #SexualSelection, including why preferences vary among individuals and over time and how male trait variation is maintained. #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/46EHVgN

He makes a point.

#Congress #House #speaker #USpol

PhD Student (f/m/d) – Computational Cancer Genomics / Bioinformatics

St. Anna Children's Cancer Research Institute (St. Anna CCRI)

Be part of Science that makes a difference!

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-phd-student-f-m-d-computa...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-phd-student-f-m-d-computational-cancer-genomics-bioinformatics/?feed_id=60675

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 people arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory #Anti-Fascism

Timeline cleanse! Laphonza Butler sworn in today by VP Kamala Harris as the first Black openly #LGBTQ+ Senator in history, as Butler's wife, Neneke Lee, holds the Bible, and all smile. [📸 AP Stephanie Scarbrough]

#Clinicalperspectives The #ychromosome was once used to label people as criminal. A new complete Y chromosome sequence just might combat this dangerous myth .The promises and perils of #GenomicsResearch. The Y chromosome’s completion caps a history of ideology & superstition about genetics and human behavior that is illustrative of how people can use genetics to dehumanize those viewed as “disabled.”