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
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@EU_Commission what we need is to forbid the treatment of tracking data as a currency. Half the websites nowadays blackmail you into consenting to tracking or paying. Yes you can make a subscribers-only website, but no, forfeiting my right to privacy should not be a payment option.
If I go buy bread and the baker says "take off your clothes and this one is for free", that's not okay. This is similar.
"Here, we investigated how eosinophils adapt to the small intestine (SI) microenvironment and the local signals that regulate this process. We observed that eosinophils gradually migrate along the crypt–villus axis, giving rise to a villus-resident subpopulation with a distinct transcriptional signature. Retinoic acid signaling was specifically required for maintenance of this subpopulation, while IL-5 was largely dispensable outside of its canonical role in eosinophil production."
#Immunology
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UNRWA serves 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. The State Department decision is intended to serve as a threat to all of them.
“The US chose to stop funds to UNRWA only an hour after the ICJ decision,” tweeted USCPR Organizing & Advocacy Director Iman Abid. “Israel kills over 33,000 Palestinians & the US still continues to negotiate an increase in funding to Israel. I don’t know what more you need to know about this administration.”
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'Herein, we describe a synapse formation between α-SMA+ CAFs and regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the TME. Foxp3+ Tregs were localized close to α-SMA+CAFs in diverse types of tumor models as well as biopsies from melanoma and colorectal cancer patients.'
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'Here, we demonstrated that the presence of ECM supported the growth of invasive breast cancer cells, but not non-transformed mammary epithelial cells, under amino acid starvation, through a mechanism that required macropinocytosis-dependent ECM uptake'
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002406
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Stuck on a technical neuroscience issue? We have an open, online community for that! Ask questions & post answers on Neurostars - our Q&A forum with >10K users!
'The importance of women and black artists and thinkers to Surrealism’s evolution is only beginning to be recognised. It yields new ground, partly explaining Surrealism’s recent surge as museums worldwide seek to balance their collections by gender, race, place. Surrealism’s global reach is rewarding: whereas Impressionism and Cubism, also Paris-based, became merely imitative when artists further afield adopted them, Surrealism took fire as it travelled and mutated.'
https://www.ft.com/content/545add93-4808-4952-bfc4-cf9fa36b62ad
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More Fugitive Uterus Acts - Lawyers, Guns & Money
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/01/more-fugitive-uterus-acts
A model for predicting vaccine-related adverse events.
"A novel reactogenicity scoring framework accounting for the frequency and severity of local and systemic AEs was applied to the clinical data, and a machine learning approach was employed to predict the incidence of clinical AEs from the in vitro assay data. Biomarker analysis suggested that the relative levels of IL-1B, IL-6, IL-10, and CCL4 have higher predictive importance for AE risk."
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'We didn’t get a name for algorithms until a couple thousand years later, when European scholars translated Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala (“The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”), the landmark work of Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi, from Arabic to Latin. Those researchers also Latinized al-Khwarizmi’s name to “Algoritmi,” which was then used to describe mathematical processes. We also get the word “algebra” from the book’s shortened title (Al-Jabr).'
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/drowning-in-mediocre-data-on-kyle-chaykas-filterworld/
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'By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 Indigenous people remained, a sharp decline from the estimated 5 million to 15 million living in North America when Columbus arrived in 1492.'
(via @PapyrusBrigade)
https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
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'Não podemos querer uma economia avançada e não oferecer uma democracia avançada. Onde é que está a participação cidadã no PRR? Quantos problemas poderíamos ter poupado se tivéssemos envolvido mais a sociedade civil em escolhas que podem ir desde um Data Center, em Sines, à localização do novo aeroporto?'
"The only known species of caenagnathid from this time and region was Anzu, sometimes called the “chicken from hell.” Covered in feathers and sporting wings and a toothless beak, Anzu was roughly 450 to 750 pounds (200 to 340 kilograms). Despite its fearsome nickname, though, its diet is a matter of debate. It was likely an omnivore, eating both plant material and small animals."
Image: Zubin Erik Dutta / PLOS One.
#Scicomm #dinosaur #paleontology #fossils
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🚨 We demand the immediate liberation of #ColineFay, a 26yo environmental & human rights activist facing life imprisonment in Senegal!
‼️ Peacefully demonstrating is not a crime @mincolonna
@emmanuelmacron
#FreeColine #HomeForChristmas
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“74% of company-internal data protection professionals say that authorities would find significant violations at an average company”.
@noybeu marks Data Protection Day with new research that reveals Europe’s failure to apply the GDPR. https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-74-experts-see-relevant-violations-most-companies
Ceramic chess set by @madparreira.bsky.social
#art #ceramics #stoneware #handmade #artgallery #pottery #chess #arts #artmastodon
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Safe country -really? In the last few months refugees been granted asylum in uk for credible risks of harm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/well-camouflaged-dictatorship-rwandans-fear-for-safety-while-dirty-tricks-campaign-undermines-critics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Title: Crow on a Snowy Branch (c.1910)
Artist: Ohara Koson
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g01004/ #ShinHanga #OharaKoson #Taisho #Winter #Snow #Crow #Karasu #Japan
'Os números argumentam por mim. Em 2023 o índice Housing Anywhere categorizou Lisboa como a cidade mais cara da Europa onde um T1 custa em média 2500 por mês. Também o ano passado, a Confidencial Imobiliário classificou o preço médio dos apartamentos em oferta em Lisboa em 677,8 mil euros, valor em linha com o total de um ordenado médio português ao longo de 40 anos.
Estas casas não são para nós, não existem para vivermos nelas.'
https://www.dn.pt/4577283438/a-cidade-financeira-e-o-deserto-das-nossas-vidas/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
