RT @BrodskyIgor
The Brodsky lab is looking for a senior research investigator! If you have 5+ yrs post-PhD research experience, are interested in innate immunity/host-pathogen interactions & want an exciting, collaborative environment with great colleagues, please apply: https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/upenn/careers-at-penn/job/Vet-School-Rosenthal-Bldg---3rd-Floor/Senior-Research-Investigator--Penn-Vet--Pathobiology-_JR00067089
I don't think there is a way to convey online how cool these miniature etchings Madalena made are - they are almost postage stamp size in real life
"Computational analysis of fetal haematopoietic tissues has uncovered trajectories for T and B cell differentiation across multiple organ sites, and how these trajectories might be dysregulated in fetal and paediatric health and disease."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eji.202250222
It's been a while, but I have something very exciting for #PterosaurPtuesday - a brand new painting! The #pterosaur Istiodactylus.
In *2016*
"In short, medical students held unsubstantiated beliefs about anatomical and physiological differences between supposed “races.” Many of these students thought that Black skin was thicker than white, that Black individuals age more slowly than white, and that Black nerve endings were less sensitive than white."
"The brain is three pounds of stuff. You can lay it on a table and probe it. But this sensation of consciousness is a subjective experience. There is a gap between the objective and subjective that makes it very difficult to understand how consciousness emerges from the material brain. I don’t have any answers, and I think philosophers and neuroscientists don’t yet have answers either. It’s really one of the most interesting fundamental questions in science."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/does-a-final-theory-exist-a-conversation-with-alan-lightman/
"Although we expect irrational behaviour and lapses of judgment from Alzheimer’s patients, we’re often puzzled by the baffling behaviour of caregivers themselves, many of whom mirror the denial, resistance, distortions, irrationality and cognitive lapses of the people they’re caring for."
The difference between Scott Adams and Charles Schulz :
“I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.”
— C. Schultz (1970)
#scottadams #dilbert #cartoon #comics #BlackHistoryMonth #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #humanrights #activism #Monday #SilentSunday #quotes #politics #news #love #hate
New article! Read Mobilizing domestic support for international vaccine solidarity – recommendations for health crisis communication https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00625-x?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon in npj Vaccines
"(...) the size and composition of the reviewer pool has not kept pace, say editors, because journals often favour well-known scientists from countries with established science infrastructures, rather than early-career researchers or scientists from emerging science nations."
Applications are still open for our 2023 Fellows program. Join the program to learn more about #preprints and connect with others interested in bringing positive change to science communication. Read more & apply: https://buff.ly/3Dy4dor
Past exposure to viruses shapes T cell responses to subsequent viruses, even if completely unrelated?! 🤔
V interesting #virology #immunology #viruses #Tcells
Cross-reactivity of SARS-CoV-2– and influenza A–specific T cells in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2
Intriguing: a risk score for identifying patients at low risk of bacterial meningitis. This is always an issue and with real #antimicrobialstewardship opportunity #AMR
#IDMastodon #MedMastodon
Our EiC @npariente is attending the EMBO Workshop “The Immune System of Bacteria”, the first nucleating this vibrant community studying various systems that has so exploded in recent years.
Come by to say hello!
Share to Mastodon 2.0 by is now available!
#Mastodon #Edge #Chrome #Firefox #extension by
@corbin
https://blog.corbin.io/post/710160748534530048/share-to-mastodon-20-is-now-available
Technical language
'Mental-health care is “a shitstorm,” Thomas Insel, a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, told me. “Nobody likes what they get. Nobody is happy with what they give. It’s a complete mess.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/can-ai-treat-mental-illness
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Crescent Moon Beyond Greek Temple https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
'Meloni’s government has actively sabotaged the NGO-led search and rescue missions attempting to save lives at sea. Under her government’s new legislation, boats that have rescued migrants onboard cannot remain at sea to continue their mission. They must go to assigned ports based in northern Italy by Italian authorities, days of sailing away from the main theatre of operations. This has resulted in a drastic reduction of the time the vessels can engage in saving lives, and surely a corresponding increase in the death rate.'
'Three days before Christmas, the only hospital in this remote city on the Yakama Indian Reservation abruptly closed its maternity unit without consulting the community, the doctors who delivered babies there or even its own board.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/health/rural-hospitals-pregnancy-childbirth.html
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com