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
"News is also coming in about the next few rounds of Covid vaccine boosters. It seems that while countries such as the US & France have made vaccines available to anyone who wants them, the UK will probably continue restricting free access to select groups, and may reduce access further in the future"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/covid-booster-jabs-campaign-spring-2024-uk
Erasing the record should not happen.
'Problems with the study were severe enough that its publisher, after finding that the paper violated ethics guidelines, formally withdrew it within a few months of its publication in 2021. The study was then wiped from the internet, leaving behind a barren web page that said nothing about the reasons for its removal.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/science/columbia-cancer-surgeon-sam-yoon-flawed-data.html
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
I was prompted to write this in response to latest announcement for vaccine plans. The cost benefit analysis underpinning decisions is not available to scrutinise but I fear we are heading for fewer free covid vaccines and no longer term vaccine strategy to try and prevent infection https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/covid-booster-jabs-campaign-spring-2024-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
"Os atrasos da FCT na resposta aos pedidos de prorrogação criaram dificuldades a vários bolseiros ouvidos pelo PÚBLICO, já que a bolsa de doutoramento implica um regime de dedicação exclusiva e, portanto, neste período entre a ausência de resposta e o fim do pagamento da bolsa não podem arranjar outra fonte de financiamento."
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
"The WHO and CDC chose, at the outset of the pandemic, to assume that COVID was transmitted via droplet. Not only did this assumption turn out to be wrong, it was presented to the public as a scientific fact, rather than what it was - an overly optimistic guess informed by bias and motivated reasoning. This original sin of the pandemic was not a case of misinterpreted or ambiguous findings. Global health bodies decided to declare the virus droplet-borne because of long-held, incorrect prejudices, and the logistical and legal nightmare that airborne infection control would have represented."
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/one-little-covid-infection-is-no
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
In her ECR Spotlight, Serena Farrell tells us how a high school anatomy class inspired her to study biology & why it's important to have a good support network, labmates, your PI, hometown friends, family or your chosen family, to share the good and bad times
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/227/3/jeb247296/342994
Hen jug. Glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety
#art #ceramics #stoneware #ceramic #Pottery #handmade #artgallery #stoneware #artmastodon
@madparreira @jorgenesbitt
'It’s not just the visuals, though. The characters talk bees, live bees, dream bees. Gwen (Taylor Schilling) is perhaps the least emotionally attached: As the lab’s manically insecure manager, she’s freaked out by the decline of the broods under her care less because it might mean ecological collapse than because it might mean funding cutbacks from “upstairs.”
'Uma profissional de saúde que trabalha na organização Médicos Sem Fronteiras estava ao lado de um local atingido por um bombardeamento israelita. “Escrevi os nomes dos meus filhos e da minha família nos seus pulsos e nas suas pernas, para que possamos ser identificados se formos bombardeados”, contou em mensagens de texto ao resto da equipa na Palestina, mensagens que a organização divulgou."
https://www.publico.pt/2024/02/14/mundo/noticia/profissional-saude-rafah-vamos-morrer-2080322
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
interesting PhD position on modeling and experimental research in cognitive control in Copenhagen https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=161103
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
"Been there, done that!"
That's how Clotilde Dent Bowen used to describe her life (1923-2011).
This pic is when she was the first African-American woman to graduate medicine from Ohio State University in 1947.
I've just made her a Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde_Dent_Bowen
And she features in my post on African-American pioneers in mental health. But more on her remarkable life before we meet some others...
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Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Meta has reduced payments to organizations that fact-check WhatsApp misinformation. The development comes just months before elections are set to take place in tens of countries around the globe. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-cuts-fact-checking-efforts-on-whatsapp-as-elections-loom
It also comes as Meta also fired most of its Facebook election team, cutting staff from 300 to 60. The move is a trend across all major social networks, which appear to have embraced their kingmaker roles around the globe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/14/biggest-online-threat-2024-elections-isnt-ai/
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
During covid, the Portland Police Bureau's budget was cut by 5% and the cops revolted, stopped enforcing crimes, and claimed it was due to defunding. The city is less safe due to the last few years of cops not doing their jobs.
I missed last summer when during a press conference a cop admitted they disbanded their traffic enforcement, told everyone in public there was no traffic enforcement, and all to score political points and get their funding back.
Jusqu'ici tout vas bien:
"Catalonia may be going through the worst drought on record for the area, but the southern region of Andalucía has faced continuous drought since 2016. Last year, Spain’s droughts ranked among the 10 most costly climate disasters in the world, according to a report by Christian Aid."
"Women who develop high blood pressure or diabetes in the course of pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children who develop conditions that may compromise their own heart health at a young age, scientists reported on Monday."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/health/pregnancy-heart-children.html
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
How do #bacteria detect other species? @kdyarrington @tnshendruk @DominiqueLimoli show that when traveling on surfaces by type IV pili-mediated motility, #Paeruginosa uses the #chemoreceptor PilJ to detect & respond to interspecies signals #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3I1XTat
"With this perspective, our intent is to provide some orientation—and some sense of calm—while navigating the diversity of CRISPR tools, recognizing what needs to be done to make them better and tackling the technical, regulatory and other challenges. Inspired by Douglas Adams’ classic scientific-fiction comedy novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), this article is our attempt to provide a brief, and hopefully informative, tour with this hitchhiker’s guide to the universe of #CRISPR-based editing tools in bacteria."
Krink et al @emboreports
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44319-024-00086-w
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
With trillions of bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses, yeast and even parasites residing in and on you-
you are never alone
With your microbiome!
Happy Science Valentines!🧪
"Health officials said there hadn’t been any documented cases of humans passing on the virus but they recommended people with skin lesions possibly caused by Alaskapox to cover the affected area with a bandage."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/14/alaskapox-first-known-fatality-alaska-virus
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
