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
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
If you're organising a #meeting and would like support to reduce the #environmental impact of your event, our #Sustainable Conferencing #Grants might be able to help.
You can find out more about how the Indian C. elegans meeting used their grant in this story. The organisers brought the #nematode community together and ensured that the meeting had an environmental focus:
https://sustainability.biologists.com/blog/the-indian-c-elegans-meeting-goes-green/
Details about our meeting grants can be found here:
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Tomorrow! A #Drosophilid #Science #Advent of #UK #Flies with #MacroPhotography, #NaturalHistory and #Entomology facts. Pre-advent:
‘The’ fly, D. melanogaster: winner of 6 #NobelPrizes, Dmel is a global human commensal that evolved in South East #Africa in association with #Marula https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218313629. Leaving Africa >20Kya https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/3/844/5304659, it reached TH Morgan’s lab in 1908; ~1000 genomes are available https://popfly.uab.cat/ and wild Dmel can look pretty odd: https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-014-0179-y
Humpback hits
'Songs evolve over time, and differ across populations. This slow evolution can be occasionally interrupted by a kind of revolution, in which one population completely adopts the songs of another in a period of just a couple of years or less. “It’s like a new hit song,” Niksic said—a wide and rapid spread of creative content that’s “unparalleled in the animal kingdom, excepting humans.” She went on, “There’s so many similarities between their culture and ours.”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-marine-biologist-remixed-whalesong
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
RT @jonykipnis@twitter.com
There is still time to apply for @BIG_CenterWashU@twitter.com tenure-track faculty position. Come join us @WUSTLmed@twitter.com and do your best research in neuroimmunology and glia with us! https://jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/619280/tenure-track-assistant-professor-/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jonykipnis/status/1597675217476014080
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Yesterday in my BIO/INFO 270 class I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they need to be doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.
Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/
Look closely: These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Hello #sciencemastodon. I’m the Executive Editor of @J_Cell_Sci. I’m relatively new to the position (having been an Editor at @Dev_journal for years) so I’m here to find out about all things #cellbio (and maybe some #devbio 😊). Any suggestions on who or what to follow?
#introduction #cellbiology #publishing
'As is the case for other developmental loci, understanding
the functions of individual PAX6 enhancer elements, and whether they act in redundant,
additive, or distinct ways, will help to decode non-coding mutations at this locus and further
our understanding of the mechanisms of enhancer activity during development.'
#Zebrafish #Development #DevelopmentalBiology #Preprint #Pax6
'As Luria’s success grew, so did his political involvement. He campaigned for racial desegregation and workers’ rights. He supported Democratic candidates for Congress. He protested against the biological and nuclear weapons. He lobbied for academic freedom when the congressional House Un-American Activities Committee tried to impose anti-communist legislation on universities.
The FBI paid attention. Selya’s description of the United States during the cold war has eerie similarities with communist East Germany. The FBI recruited friends and colleagues to dish dirt; Selya obtained the reports through the Freedom of Information Act. Most informants commented on Luria’s liberal-mindedness but fell short of alleging that he was a member of the Communist Party. The agency illegally monitored his post, Selya writes. Most suspicious were two letters from New York, signed ‘SA’. The sender? The magazine Scientific American.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Hello Mastodon. Let me introduce myself.
I'm not quite a cognitive scientist, not quite a neuroscientist, and not quite a data scientist. I like to think of myself as an intelligence scientist (let's see if that term sticks).
My research is on how the brain makes decisions, how we learn from our experiences, and how we explore to seek information. Along the way I try to develop new methods for understanding the brain and behavior.
Outside of the lab I'm interested in #philosophy, #openscience, #art, and #SocialJustice
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
A question: what is the relationship between clinical medicine and public health? I know the textbook answers about individual patients and populations, but think it's a complicated history and unsimple present. This piece by Amy Fairchild, dean of OSU's school of public health, along with Linda Fried, dean of Columbia's SPH, charts out a story of how the two fields relate to each other, and some of it is not pretty.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
RT @emiliapsantos@twitter.com
🚨🐟 Are you looking for a postdoc? Interested in brain development and evolution? Check this post and apply!🐟🚨 http://jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/38210/ in collaboration with @eohomo@twitter.com, @Dlimnothrissa@twitter.com and @richard_durbin@twitter.com @CamZoology@twitter.com @Cambridge_SBS@twitter.com @BristolBioSci@twitter.com 🐟🚨
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/emiliapsantos/status/1597892088200278016
'Tomando como punto de partida los más de 1.180 monumentos incluidos en la Lista Roja de Hispania Nostra, la historiadora del arte Raquel Álvarez publica el libro ‘101 monumentos que tus hijos, tal vez, ya no verán’.'
Kudos to Times reporter Pam Belluck for writing responsibly about lecanemab:
"That history gives the lecanemab trial added significance, marking the first time that attacking amyloid has clearly correlated with a slower rate of cognitive decline, experts say. But because the rate was not dramatically slower, several doctors who treat Alzheimer’s questioned whether the effect would be noticeable to patients or their families."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/health/lecanemab-alzheimers-drug.html
Students arrested at Lisbon University for climate for climate protest. The Dean of their college called the police.
'Em causa estão os quatro estudantes que foram detidos quando estavam em protesto pelo clima na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL). Depois de terem sido ouvidos pelo Ministério Público a 14 de Novembro, os alunos recusaram a suspensão provisória do processo e escolheram ir a julgamento, para que o caso não fosse “silenciado”.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Ok. Time to embrace something better! I study allergies and neuroimmunology…and now I study how #ScienceMastodon works.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Hi #ScienceMastodon. #focalplane_jcs is your #community site, connecting people, resources and information across all areas of #microscopy.
Anyone can contribute on https://focalplane.biologists.com, and we’ll be tooting the latest news and posts from the community. You can also join the #FocalPlane Network, an international directory of #microscopists designed to help you find collaborators, speakers and reviewers.
@J_Cell_Sci @Co_Biologists #Science #Research #Cells #Imaging #Biology
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Hello #ScienceMastodon!
I am a molecular and cellular neurobiologist leading a research group trying to figure out #axonaltransport & #neurodegeneration. A big emphasis on #microtubules, #kinesin and #dynein, but really the transport of anything that doesn't have a membrane around it. We use a lot of #singlemolecule methods and #livecellimaging.
I also post about #researchculture, particularly how we can better invest in people so they can do great science.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
We're looking to recruit a Chair in Genomics here in Bristol university. Please apply!!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUY476/professor-william-coldrick-chair-in-genomics
“They would bombard us with these testimonies in every single service, and the pastors would preach that if you’ve got savings in your account, it is time for you to put it on the altar,” Mariah said. She remembers selling her local authority-issued laptop to donate the money to the church when she was about 15, and described “one of the lowest points of my life” as later going to sixthform college in the snow wearing only light summer shoes because she did not have money left over from all her donations.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Sharing some interesting papers (haven't had the time to read them yet, but abstracts look cool!)
'Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Gut Commensals Degrade Components of the Extracellular Matrix'
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02201-22
'some commensal bacteria in the gut are indeed capable of degrading components of human ECM in vitro and suggest that this proteolytic activity may be involved in the progression of IBD'
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
