Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

KRAS update

"Here are the FDA briefing documents for the meeting being held today (Thursday, October 5). If you read Amgen’s press releases from the last two or three months and then read this stuff, you will feel as if you have stepped through a portal into another dimension."

@dereklowe.bsky.social

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/confirmatory-trial-trouble-kras

Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers.

Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730

The second
@darwintreelife
#Drosophila genome! Drosophila funebris! https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/8-437

Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes S. Lorena Ament-Velásquez (hosted by Miya Pan, Schwander group) for a talk on self-nonself recognition systems and speciation. Oct 18 at 12:15, Biophore Amphitheater or online https://rec.unil.ch/lives/live_80807

'An immunoprevention strategy for #Alzheimer's disease is required that will integrate the findings from clinical trials with mechanistic insights from preclinical disease models to select promising antibodies, optimize the timing of intervention, identify early biomarkers, and mitigate potential side effects.'

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00910-8

‘Wales, though. It’s not a huge place.’
‘It’s exactly the size it is, isn’t it?’ Shirely said. ‘Reports are always saying something’s “an area the size of Wales”. And that’s exactly the size Wales is.’
This was met with a short silence.
- Joe Country, Mick Herron.

#Book #Bookshelf #bookstodon

Museu do Oriente, Lisbon.

TLS and #Bcells predict therapeutic responses and longer survival in patients treated with #Immunotherapy
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00365-5?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Current issue
https://www.cell.com/immunity/current

France exposes mega Russian disinformation campaign

> France has uncovered a wide-ranging Russian disinformation campaign to undermine Western support to Ukraine, the country's agency in charge of spotting foreign interference online announced Tuesday.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-accuses-russia-of-wide-ranging-disinformation-campaign/ #France #Russia #Ukraine #UkraineWar

@cyrilpedia And at a cost about half of the projected cost for merely the #HS2 London-Manchester line. Costs in the #UK for just about anything are absurd. One wonders where does the money go.

When I read Jaron Lanier’s persuasive book “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now” (2018), I consoled myself by saying, this doesn’t describe Twitter.

If it didn’t then, it certainly does now.

(e.g. “Social media is undermining truth”;
“Social media is making what you say meaningless”;
“Social media is making you an asshole.”) https://mastodon.social/@KaradelaMarck/111216819110634484

The example I will start with was created by a PhD student of a junior group for our division retreat: a game of life with a single modified rule where you have to figure out this rule. Surprisingly difficult but very instructive!
It was also very interesting to see how different teams presented/interpreted this rule after they had discovered it!

Next week I will start a new lecture series 'Being creative in physics', which is a kind of experiment. Basically, in an interactive format I want to help students understand how you tackle the unknown, where no one tells you what are even the right questions or which physical effects may be important. I will try to have them tackle various scenarios working in teams, like figuring out some mystery equations of motion etc. Read about it: https://pad.gwdg.de/s/ZpJd1xMoQ

Any ideas/suggestions?

The #iNaturalist fairy—by the hand of user ‘fonsv’–just delivered a precise species ID to an observation of mine of an #Ichneumonidae parasitoid wasp. A great match; mind these are hard to identify, primarily from the lack of available guides and accessible reference material. Mine is merely the 5th observation worldwide of this species.

Rhembobius perscrutator http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/112312570

#Hymenoptera #entomology #insects