Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

PostDoc (f/m/d) - Fusion oncogene driven pediatric tumors

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

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-postdoc-f-m-d-fusion-oncogene-driven-pediatric-tumors/?feed_id=65373

#ScienceJobs #hiri...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/st-anna-childrens-cancer-research-institute-st-anna-ccri-27778-postdoc-f-m-d-fusion-oncogene-driven-pediatric-tumors/?feed_id=65373

Where will #InvasiveSpecies go next? Henry Häkkinen @DaveHodgson00 & @ReganEarly provide the first global assessment of regions to which a selection of 833 naturalized #plants, #birds & #mammals could spread (using climate matching, etc) #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3QGUmlG

An old photo from near the start of my photography career. The enigmatic Nothomyrmecia macrops, a rare ant found only in mallee habitat in South Australia. This species forages on very cold nights along tree trunks to catch insects immobilized by the conditions, and I nearly got hypothermia trying to get this shot.

#Ants #Insects #Nothomyrmecia #australianwildlife

"While war rages in Gaza, there is also a battle in Israel for the character of our society. That is why we’ve formed the Jewish-Arab Solidarity Network with more than 12 local groups in cities across the country, which works on the ground to combat racism, promote peace and equality, and bring Jewish and Palestinian citizens together"

Uri Weltmann, national field organiser of Standing Together.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Peace #StandingTogether
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/14/grief-racism-israel-peace-palestinians-jews-arabs

'Reduce your flesh' is a great horror title

I was recently asked by postdocs if the way the Portuguese FCT plays a call-date & regulations guessing game every year is normal.

It's not.

"Para além da escassez de financiamento, poucas coisas há que afetem mais o trabalho científico que a imprevisibilidade. Uma vez mais, os concursos dos NIH e do ERC servem de exemplo para como as coisas devem ser feitas. Todos os anos estes concursos abrem, o período de candidaturas termina, e os resultados são anunciados nas mesmas datas."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/11/14/ciencia/opiniao/truques-subterfugios-fundacao-ciencia-tecnologia-2069198

"Our experiments confirm that GCs support the side-by-side maturation of B cells with very different BCR affinities and reveal that cells from across a wide antibody affinity spectrum generate PCs. We propose that this outcome reflects imprecise discrimination for antibody affinity by GC B cells in such settings, with the result being PC populations that approximately mirror the maturation pathways from which they develop. This provides the evolutionary benefit of seeding diverse serum antibody responses."
#Immunology #GerminalCenter

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01173-X#%20

9th International Caparica Conference on Analytical Proteomics | 23-27 June, 2024 | Caparica, Portugal --- https://icap2024.com/

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#proteomics #prot-conf

"(...) Trump has declared that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” — a phrase that, to steal from the late, great Molly Ivins, might sound better in the original German."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/opinion/columnists/trump-immigrants.html

"Scientists need the time and security to investigate questions that may lead to dead ends or, alternatively, yield new understandings of the world. This rarely happens if their research is driven by short-term responses to market demands."

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-cultural-contradictions-of-modern-science/articles/trivial-pursuits-the-decline-of-scientific-research

Women in the U.S. expected to live six years longer than men

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/13/life-expectancy-men-women/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic

#Fungi's secrets for surviving a #hypersaline environment.

#cell_wall

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-fungi-secrets-surviving-hypersaline-environment.html

I spent this year talking to the 3 young hackers behind Mirai, the malware that once broke the internet.

This is WIRED's resulting cover story—an epic, untold, 22,000-word tale of cybercrime, friendship, chaos, betrayal, paranoia, and redemption.

Read: https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster/

A STAT investigation: UnitedHealth Group pressured clinical employees to follow an algorithm to cut off care for seriously ill older and disabled Americans — while profits soared.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/unitedhealth-algorithm-medicare-advantage-investigation/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon_organic