Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

🧪 🔬 Wonderful (brief) interview w/ cell biologist Jakub Sedzinski. “Trust people, do not micromanage [them], believe in their capabilities, & learn what stimulates everyone is different & everyone is an individual.“ h/t @cyrilpedia.bsky.social https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/137/3/jcs261929/342718/Cell-scientist-to-watch-Jakub-Sedzinski

ACIP, a panel of experts that advise CDC on #vaccine policy, currently has more vacancies than it does members, with more vacancies looming a few months from now. When it meets this month, govt officials will serve as temporary voting members to achieve quorum. Why has HHS let this problem develop? https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/08/acip-vacancies-hhs-vaccines/

American writer Kate Chopin, best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women was born #OTD in 1850. Her short stories were well received in the 1890s and were published by some of America’s most prestigious magazines—Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Young People, the Youth’s Companion, and the Century. Her early novel At Fault was not much noticed, but The Awakening was widely condemned.

https://www.katechopin.org/

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/100

#books #literature

Are you a CoARA member and interested in forming or joining a National Chapter?

Don't miss the 1st Exchange Forum of National Chapters in Porto on Feb 22-23!💡

Registration is open until Feb 15.

Find more info here 👉 https://coara.eu/news/unlocking-synergies-first-coara-national-chapters-exchange-forum-in-porto-portugal/

🚨 2 open jobs in the Jug Lab at HT in Milan, Italy - apply now! 🚨

👉 Data Scientist and Research Software Engineer in Computer Vision and AI - https://careers.humantechnopole.it/o/data-scientist-in-computer-vision-and-ai
👉 Machine Learning Specialist in Computer Vision and Bioimage Analysis - https://careers.humantechnopole.it/o/bioinformatician-senior-bioinformatician-jug-group

See also here: https://forum.image.sc/t/2-jobs-at-ht-in-milan-italy-apply-now/91976

New Report Raises Concerns About Long Covid in Children.

A large analysis published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics underscores the toll long COVID can take on children, in some cases leading to neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and behavioral symptoms in the months after an acute infection.

Published study: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children?autologincheck=redirected

#LongCOVIDchildren #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/well/live/long-covid-children.html

Hire mental health professionals instead of cops, end qualified immunity and never – ever – call police unless you want someone to die.

“Cameroon is the first country in the world to make vaccination for malaria part of routine childhood immunisation.”

in issue 148 of @thecontinent

#malaria #Cameroon #vaccination #Africa

This is insane: we made CPAP breathing devices in the 1000s in 2020/21 for the NHS - there are several thousand left over.

Ukraine is desperate for them; a charity has offered to ship them, but the government plan to destroy them instead!! madness.

https://ft.com/content/cbb2a8dc-173c-4c99-b273-07f4f0f10a8f

The university of Kent, where I virtually live (long story) wants to lay off over 50 academics, including closing its journalism course. Please sign this petition.

https://www.change.org/p/save-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences-subjects-at-the-university-of-kent?recruiter=203519596&recruited_by_id=c8cf45a0-9083-11e4-b3c5-710ce9c0bb18&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf&share_bandit_exp=initial-37878885-en-GB

@cyrilpedia

teach kids early about study methods, controls, bias, etc ... and we wouldn't have trumpism, and alt med cults.

"Look, cancer immune-metabolism is really simple, let me walk you through it."

'Latest figures from the WHO’s cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, makes plain the growing burden of cancer, rising from 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths worldwide in 2012 to 20 million new cases and 9.7 million deaths a decade later.'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/01/global-cancer-cases-to-rise-by-more-than-75-by-2050-who-predicts

SNSF Spark call:

"Spark enables researchers to test or develop novel and unconventional scientific approaches, methods, theories, standards and ideas within a short time. Preliminary data do not necessarily need to be available."

https://www.snf.ch/en/yFfGJ5y0ZKdif8py/news/spark-call-for-proposals

'The American Association of Immunologists (AAI), in order to promote excellence in science education at the secondary school level, is sponsoring a summer research program created specifically for high school teachers: the AAI High School Teachers Summer Research Program in Immunology.'

https://www.aai.org/Education/Summer-Teachers

'In Europe — where Wegovy is not yet generally available in public health systems — 80 per cent of sales are paid for personally by consumers, with the remainder reimbursed by health insurance or states. In the US, more than 90 per cent of sales are completely or partially covered by health insurance, the company said.'

https://www.ft.com/content/bbbe8543-263c-4e5b-a567-2ef05f2b3138

"Thompson was arguing against both the conservative view of class relations as describing “the harmonious coexistence of groups performing different ‘social roles’” and a form of economic determinism that imagines, as he put it later in an interview, that “some kind of raw material like peasants ‘flocking to factories’” could be “processed into so many yards of class-conscious proletarians”. For Thompson, the working class “made itself as much as it was made”. This idea of agency, of people, even in the most inauspicious circumstances, possessing the capacity to act on the world was central to his life work."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/04/what-legendary-historian-tells-us-about-contempt-for-todays-working-class-ep-thompson

Neil Gaiman & koumpounophobia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlCJu6zrB10

"Aproveitando para apelar à vacinação de acordo com o Programa Nacional de Vacinação, a autoridade de saúde nacional recomenda que se alguém esteve em contacto com um caso suspeito de sarampo, ou se tem sintomas, ligue para a linha de saúde 808242424."

https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2024-02-06-DGS-confirma-novo-caso-de-sarampo-elevando-para-14-o-numero-de-infecoes-registadas-em-Portugal-d395a853