Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

#introduction.
Hi Mastodon in general and #histadons in particular - I teach classes (a lot of them!) in bioethics, history or medicine, and health humanities. I wrote a history of #Alzheimers in the United States, and am working (very slowly, alas) on a broader history of #dementia.

Lots of other interests - some grappling with our generally dire circumstances, but some of them actually fun, like cycling and board games.

I live and work in Philly.

Hello, everyone! Ani here. I trained as a microbiologist. In the lab I worked on methanogens, genetic code expansion, and inserting unnatural amino acids into proteins.

I’ve spent the past 15 years helping scientists grow communities and journals at professional societies. But I still have a hard time explaining just what it is that I do (there are some links in my bio that might help). My posts may be unrelated to my work too. 😆

#introduction #microbiology #science #synbio #chemistry

Fascinating and sobering research exploring the global distribution and diversity of #antibioticresistance genes across 101 countries via sequencing of DNA from #sewage samples

#microbiology #microbiomes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34312-7

Dear people interested in #organoids #Tcells #Macrophages #Bcells #DendriticCells #MucosalImmunology #microbiome #OrganOnChip #MicroPhysiologicalSystems #IBD #CeliacDisease #iPSCs,

where are you? I want to follow you!

Best regards,
Me

What do we call ourselves over here? #EpiMastodon? #EpiTooters?

The 10 biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen by scientists https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/18/the-10-biggest-science-stories-of-2022-chosen-by-scientists

@cyrilpedia there is some dark humour to be had in the fact that one of the most influential contributers to understanding a disease about memory loss was forgotten for decades.

The slides for my recent intro to open science (OS) talk, including 5 things about OS that everyone should know

➡️ https://osf.io/zy2pc ⬅️

1. OS practices accelerate scientific discovery
2. Adopting OS practices can make you a more competitive job/grant applicant
3. Data sharing is on a continuum (it doesn’t have to be either fully open or fully closed)
4. Take it one step at a time, you don’t have to learn every skill at once
5. Your future self will thank you for adopting OS practices

Ok everyone the current contender for “World’s Most Interesting Man,” @BWJones has joined give him a follow for photos, cars, and an improbably delightful origin story. Oh and some amazing scientific research into how our eyes work. There’s that bit too 👀

Stimulating and fascinating read from #LudingtonWill on how #hosts and #microbes could use a secret code to exchange information about #nutrient states. #TrendsMicrobiol sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #microbiome

#LongCovid #longcovid.social

My partner came up with the idea of creating an instance for #LongCovid in which sufferers, carers, and allies could interact. This is how longcovid.social was born.
He saw how useful the #LongCovid community has been for me during the past two years and wanted to make sure we have a safe space in case the bird site deteriorates.

So here we are, longcovid.social instance is now ready and hopefully will offer each other meaningful interactions and support here.

I'm excited about this new #genomics #scRNA #rnaseq preprint from @ariel_hippen! It's a molecular biology deep dive into what happens when you dissociate and single-cell sequence a tissue with the goal of performing deconvolution of bulk tissue.

Some key bits: there are dissociation effects, RNA capture/depletion effects, and potentially some microfluidics effects with the #10X platform. Also, deconvolution algorithms are variably robust to these things.

See more:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.04.519045v1

Friendly woof or growly bark?🐶🐾 ❔ Turns out we aren’t that great at telling the difference! New study by the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology & Friedrich-Schiller-Uni Jena suggests that humans aren’t great at picking up cues of aggression in #dogs – or in our fellow humans, for that matter! *Oddly enough, our own pooches only want to play!* 😉🐶 🥰 😁 https://www.mpg.de/19625800/1207-wisy-humans-struggle-to-identify-aggression-in-dogs-other-humans-9347732 Open access study here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277783 @unijena