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
Thiago Carvalho
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Wild opinion, but the majority of public school parents are normal people who work for a living and do not want genital-obsessed, home-schooling, social media stunting, adults in charge of their kids' education. https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-for-liberty-candidates-taught-a-lesson-in-2023-elections
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RT by @joseggusmao: Pergunta de uma jovem (negra) na audiência: “acha que eleições antecipadas podem dar força a partidos que ameaçam a democracia como o Chega?”
@passoscoelho “Não creio que o Chega seja um partido anti-democrático”. É esta mensagem para uma audiência de alunos do secundário?!
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/DuarteCosta5/status/1722186367168389448#m
[2023-11-08 09:36 UTC]
‘The analysis estimates that 1.5–2% of all scientific papers published in 2022 closely resemble paper-mill works. Among biology and medicine papers, the rate rises to 3%."
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#^Mycorrhizal fungi: the roots of life on land
Buried in the soil lies a hidden network that transformed the planet and plays a vital role in ecosystems today
- by Aeon Video
Watch at Aeon
Buried in the soil lies a hidden network that transformed the planet and plays a vital role in ecosystems today
- by Aeon Video
Watch at Aeon
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Postdoc in Mechanobiology
Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
Passionate postdoc sought for mechanobiology research in a dynamic, multidisciplinary setting in Naples.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/department-of-molecular-medi...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/department-of-molecular-medicine-and-medical-biotechnology-federico-ii-university-of-naples-italy-27778-postdoc-in-mechanobiology/?feed_id=64752
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A recent study of more than 800,000 people led by Fabio Angeli 🇮🇹has shown that #COVID19 patients develop high #bloodpressure twice as often as others. More worrying is that the risk of #cardiacdiseases can also rise for patients who suffered only mild #COVID symptoms.
https://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205(23)00371-0/fulltext
"The whole episode left me wondering what purpose it serves to penalize those who want to stay at the same institution for multiple career stages. It’s often said in academia that 'moving around a lot is necessary.' But the reality is that moving is a huge barrier for many scientists, including those with spouses, children, aging parents, disabilities, and cultural backgrounds that emphasize a close-knit extended family community—the kinds of people academia is actively trying to recruit to its ranks."
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Endel Tulving, 1927-2023: ‘The Memorist’ of Cognitive Psychology https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2023/11/endel-tulving-1927-2023-the-memorist/ #neuroscience
"The aftermath of the first lockdown in 2020 was an opportunity to make choices, to learn from the global experience of the first months of the pandemic, and to plan for the coming winter. Serious people all over the world were working all hours to understand what had happened, what was happening then, and what could happen in the future under various public health measures. The emerging evidence from the Covid inquiry shows that this seriousness did not make it into Britain’s government."
https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/healthcare/2023/11/the-covid-inquiry-government-duty-failed
"Tuberculosis, which is preventable and curable, has reclaimed the title of the world’s leading infectious disease killer, after being supplanted from its long reign by Covid-19. But worldwide, 40 percent of people who are living with TB are untreated and undiagnosed, according to the World Health Organization."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/health/tuberculosis-tb-treatment-vaccine-diagnosis.html
"The Brazilian authorities, however, say it was something far more sinister: a meeting of the Hammerskins, a neo-Nazi group founded in Dallas in 1988 that they say has recently found its way thousands of miles south, to Brazil’s most starkly conservative region, reflecting a surge in far-right extremists in Latin America’s largest nation."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/world/americas/brazil-neo-nazis-extremism.html
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"To piss on someone's parade": the 1681 #astronomy edition featuring a dog (urinating), a scientist (being urinated on), and a #pamphlet about comets.
This is scientific communication par excellence.
@histodons #histodons #bookhistory #animalhistory
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Modern Medicine Has Its Scientific Roots In The Middle Ages − How The Logic Of Vulture Brain Remedies And Bloodletting Lives On Today https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/modern-medicine-has-its-scientific-roots-in-the-middle-ages-how-the-logic-of
"The Covid inquiry has shown us that inside No 10 there was a combination of squabbles, chaos and incompetence best described as an absurdist tragedy. The obvious takeaway is, “don’t elect someone like Boris Johnson”"
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On this day in 1922: Christiaan Barnard died, transplanted the first successful human heart #ThisDayInBiotech
"What we are focused on now is the expansion of biological specificity. Modern quantitative biology has great instrumentation to measure how things work physiologically, but that needs really specific readouts; if the reagent that you are using is not specific enough, then your assay probably won't be very good."
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It seems #AI will enhance our skills and abilities. One thing I always struggle is keeping up with the scientific literature, so I am testing some tools.
I tried elicit.com, it promises to find useful papers from the literature, so I tested it: e.g. I searched
"Phenotype of p50 knockout in human macrophage", output: 1st paper is on p21, 2nd on overexpression (not knockout), 3rd-5th on murine macrophages (not human).
Same search on Google or DuckDuckGo gives much better results.
#science
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'Concerns over zoonotic diseases have greatly increased since the Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus emerged in China in late 2019 and spread swiftly across the globe. A study published by BMJ Global Health on Thursday found that environmental and population changes over the past six decades were driving growing numbers of such “spillover events” such as that which caused the coronavirus pandemic.'
https://www.ft.com/content/17c0ebb6-8391-45e9-943a-99dfe3d37f4c
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As the great Groucho Marx said, “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others.”
'The EU is poised to water down a landmark piece of car pollution legislation after extensive lobbying from the automotive industry, which experts say will cause an estimated €100bn in health and environmental costs.'
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Swedish strike against Tesla is expanding.
https://news.yahoo.com/port-workers-join-tesla-strike-122059397.html
Seems the UAW International Union has fueled a trend of people working together for fairness in auto work.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
