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
"Google and Facebook have been unscathed by European privacy law. That’s not because they don’t violate the GDPR. It’s because they pretend they are headquartered in Ireland, one of the EU’s most notorious corporate crime havens. And Ireland competes with the EU’s other crime havens — Malta, Luxembourg, Cyprus and, sometimes, the Netherlands — to see which country can offer the most hospitable environment."
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5
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It finally works! 🤞🏼
Here is a table of more than 1000 journalists on #Mastodon, that updates itself – showing the ones most active, most followed etc. I took the wonderful table by @tchambers as foundation, but deleted some media organizations, so that it only contains accounts from people.
I want to make another for media accounts (and maybe even more 🤔).
Have a look!
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Viable Counts – A Conical Approach
by Roberto – How many living cells in my culture? There are times when optical densities will not suffice, when you will want to have an accurate assay that determines viable cell counts. It's no wonder one of the first things a student of microbiology learns is the age-old concept of using "colony forming units" (aka as CFU) as a viability assay.
Read more > http://tinyurl.com/5zncsdrb
#microbiology
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Research Associate
King's College London
Come join us as a #postdoc to study how #nuclear #envelope deformations are sensend and buffered in cells.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/kings-college-london-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=71196
#electron_microscopy #escrt_pathway #genome_stability #mechanobiology #molecular_cell_biology #nuclear_envelope #signaling #ScienceJo...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/kings-college-london-27778-research-associate/?feed_id=71196
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"A woman in Connecticut suddenly began getting mail advertisements for cremation services soon after she completed chemotherapy, according to a startling anecdote in a new report by the state’s attorney general’s office. According to the report, she was added to a marketing list for the cremation company by a data broker."
https://www.404media.co/woman-got-cremation-ads-in-the-mail-after-getting-chemotherapy/
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tech monopolies are to blame for why software sucks so much.
software sucks because it's all developed with the intent to form exploitative monopolies. once a monopoly is established, they turn up the user- and vendor-hostile practices.
as long as tech monopolies are viable & lucrative, software will continue to suck.
could software not suck, under capitalism? maybe, but it requires severe punishment for anti-competitive practices.
the crisis in software was a crisis in capitalism all along.
"Overall, our work establishes that G4 structures are important features of transcriptional regulation that coordinate recruitment of key chromatin proteins and the transcriptional machinery through interactions with DNA secondary structure, rather than primary sequence."
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Check out our latest FocalPlane playlist from @Rita_Strack. Rita highlights some exciting papers and preprints and some favourites amongst the FocalPlane back catalogue!
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2024/02/07/focalplane-playlist-rita-strack/
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'The full death toll may never be known'. Human Rights Watch documents Mariupol's destruction and calls for war crimes investigations in new report
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/02/08/the-full-death-toll-may-never-be-known
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Discuss with us about the topic "Legal acts on data and data protection"!
In our format #NFDI3questions3hours, we invite you to an open discussion on our Mastodon server. 🐘⁉️
In episode 4, we provide three questions on legal acts on data and data protection in the context of #NFDI. We look forward to an exciting exchange with you!
🗓️ The session starts on Wednesday, 14 February, at 1 pm.
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"We who are part of this system need to change it from within, and my sabbatical gave me the space to think about how to do so in a small way, and to help others navigate academia through my experience." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00381-5
"But in case you want to be more precise, let’s examine how enshittification works. It’s a three-stage process: first, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, there is a fourth stage: they die."
https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5
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What a great day to ditch a green investment pledge.
World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310
Flow cytometry primer.
*NB: One person's debris are another person's exosomes :)
"First, SSC and FSC are measured to differentiate cells from debris."
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"Being able to say, 'wherever you get your podcasts' is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." - @anildash
Powerful to think of this in the context of messaging too.
https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/
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Darkling (Watership Down 1999 series)
When I first saw this screenshot I thought the bat would be evil somehow but they are not! This design is excellent
"I started working on ants in 2001 when I joined Bert Hölldobler’s department at the University of Würzburg as an undergrad, and I’ve never looked back. Initially, I wanted to become a tropical ecologist but then pivoted toward evolutionary biology and population genetics. Fast forward a few years and I’m giving an interview to Neuron, which I guess means I have now become a neurobiologist. Still studying ants of course."
'The best piece of advice I've had was from John Wallingford, and it was simple: “Read and learn how to write.” Learning how to write will save you a lot of time in a scientific or research career. Writing fast, writing well, writing clearly and concisely in a way makes people excited about your research – this is a skill that will definitely make your life easier.'
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An atlas of protein homo-oligomerization across domains of life https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00059-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS009286742400059X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
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#proteomics #prot-paper
From Eugene Koonin et al:
"The Last Archaeal Common Ancestor likely encompassed a complex ESCRT system that was involved in protein sorting. Subsequent evolution involved either simplification, as in the TACK superphylum, where ESCRT was co-opted for cell division, or complexification as in Asgardarchaeota. In Asgardarchaeota, the connection between ESCRT and the ubiquitin system that was previously considered a eukaryotic signature was already established."
#Preprint #Archaea #Evolution
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
