Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Is it OK to spend 12 months to get a visa to attend a 3-day conference?

My piece in Science (@sciencemagazine) sheds light on this issue many scholars from institutionally discriminated countries experience on a regular basis

Spoiler: 12 months, 900$, get rejected

https://www.science.org/content/article/visa-bureaucracy-makes-scientific-conferences-inaccessible-many-researchers

[This is a repost as original post mystically was deleted...]

#Science #Academia #Psychology #Mastodon #Fediverse #Research #Science #ScienceMastodon #Research #University #PhDLife #Sociology #PhD #Politics

Antibody feedback regulates immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05609-w

Efficacy of a small molecule inhibitor of KrasG12D in immunocompetent models of pancreatic cancer
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article/doi/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-1066/711367/Efficacy-of-a-small-molecule-inhibitor-of-KrasG12D

@cyrilpedia @AnnualReviews
still a good read: barbara mcclintock's nobel prize speech "the significance of the response of the genome to challenge"
[doi: 10.1126/science.15739260.]

🔖 Do cancer researchers make their data and code available?

306 cancer studies:

16% shared data

4% shared analysis code

1% of data were FAIR (posted to a recognised repository, in a non-proprietary format, with an identifier and a license)

Cancer research transparency was this bad despite many journals having policies mandating openness.

Daniel Hamilton et al
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02644-2

#MedMastodon
#OpenScience
#ResearchIntegrity
#ResearchWaste
#doi:10.1186/s12916-022-02644-2

Recent LJI studies have shown a fascinating connection between olfactory receptors in the cardiovascular system + immune cells and the risk of heart disease.

In a recent seminar, Dr. Marco Orecchioni shared his pioneering work showing that immune cells in your arteries can “sniff” out their surroundings and cause inflammation.

https://youtu.be/aLcfKeNFZ1E

New report from #JohnsHopkins details 10 steps needed to reverse the deepest reduction of U.S. #lifeexpectancy in more than a century, since World War I and the Great Influenza. “Reversing the Decline: 10 Ideas to Improve Life Expectancy”:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/new-report-details-steps-to-reverse-decline-in-us-life-expectancy #publichealth #overdose #opioidcrisis #gunviolence #covid19 cc @cyrilpedia @gregggonsalves

I blogged about why I enjoy #scicomm on Mastodon! https://dantheclamman.blog/2022/12/02/why-i-like-scicomm-on-mastodon/

In case you did not know! Here is an opportunity to develop your research in the multidisciplinary environment of Institut Cochin! Recruitment of a team leader at Institut Cochin, Paris, France

http://institutcochin.fr/en/recruitment-team-leader-institut-cochin-paris-france

Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.

#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen

Great story about gene therapy cures and insurance from Wired. Will insurers pay current costs?
#genetherapy #hemophilia #AAV #medicine #Costofgoods #medmastodon #bigpharma #medicine
https://www.wired.com/story/the-era-of-one-shot-multi-million-dollar-genetic-cures-is-here/

@JanNolta bringst up a burning topic: how will we as a society leverage the massive price tags of new therapies...especially if these therapies can lead to cures?

#IDMastodon Accumulated evidence 👉🏿 aetiology of #LongCovid is multifactorial, especially in elderly. LC can consist of a spectrum of health-related sx that present differently across individuals, these symptoms can have different rates of onset. #COVID19 might lead to an ⏫health burden, both directly from specific LC-associated sx & exacerbation of pre-existing health issues. @thelancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(22)00245-8/fulltext#.Y48xx40oZHg.twitter

To be honest, this seems worse than having the road blocked by #climate #activists for a few minutes.