Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Registrations are open to the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics course "Introduction to Machine Learning with #Python", 📢streamed 🧑‍💻, on 5, 12, 19, 26 June 2023, 14:00-17:30 CET. #Bioinformatics for #DataScience #lifesciences #Training in #MachineLearning #AI. More info: https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20230605_INMLP

Issue 6 has closed and issue 7 is open

The front cover by Emmanuel de Margerie shows a common swift approaching a water surface to drink on the wing. Geoffrey Ruauz & co show that the birds actively reduce their flight speed immediately before touching the water, prioritizing safety over saving energy when skimming the water's surface

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/issue/226/6

#SocialMedia #Twitter #Musk: "A series of changes at Twitter has laid bare what the service has become under Elon Musk: a place where speech is anything but free.

What's happening: From its shift to pay-for-play to impulsive policy changes made by Musk, the site more resembles an intrigue-filled palace than the town square that Musk says he seeks to protect.

Driving the news: Three recent developments reveal, in sharp contrast, just how much Twitter has changed in the five months Musk has owned the company."

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/03/elon-musks-twitter-free-speech-checkmarks-ranking

JOB POSTING: Director of Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Michigan State University https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178343728 #HigherEd

The Chinese CDC analyses of the Market samples: finally published in Nature.

And now the sequences can be analysed by others....let's see whether this agrees to the presence of pandas at the Market...

Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market | Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06043-2

#covidorigins #SarsCoV2 #virology #covid

Check out our new #BehindThePaper blog post from @PEARG_Lab discussing their new #PLOSBiology paper on male-killing symbiotic bacteria in flies
Paper: https://plos.io/3TEicQe
Primer: https://plos.io/3ziNMtx
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/

Paul Berg's obit in Science

"In the early 1970s, as the enzymology of DNA manipulation became available, Paul recognized that the DNA of SV40 and the DNA from bacteria or bacterial viruses could be joined to form hybrids or chimeric molecules—later known as recombinant molecules. The technology of making and manipulating such non-natural but extremely valuable molecules was called recombinant DNA technology."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh2943

"The prolific chemist, who has published a study every 37 hours this year, has been sanctioned by the University of Córdoba over his research work for other institutions in Russia and Saudi Arabia"

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-02/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-rafael-luque-suspended-without-pay-for-13-years.html

Competing for females can damage males' DNA. Study of #SeedBeetles suggests that the increased male investment in #SpermCompetition may lead to reduced #genetic quality in future generations. Mareike Koppik @JBaur_evo @DBergerBiol #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3zviPCv

T2 Phage by Madalena Parreira, a drawing for a piece I did on the Hershey-Chase experiments when I was at J Exp Med (for the short-lived JEM blog).

https://madalenaparreira.com

Nobelist Martin Chalfie on how *not* to apply for a postdoc:

"They say 'Here is my CV and I'd really like to work in your lab, do you have any space? That's a letter that could be sent out to a hundred people, or a thousand people. There's nothing in it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2fBwH6CupA

Do you know someone looking for a Masters by Research? Likes fieldwork and ants? Part-funded MSci project on cooperation resource-sharing networks in wood ants, supervised by
@Adria & me, in collaboration with
@nationaltrust

https://findaphd.com/phds/project/self-funded-msc-by-research-project-cooperation-in-wood-ants-testing-quality-distance-trade-offs-in-resource-sharing-networks/?p156920

The #FENS2024 Programme Committee is waiting for your symposia and technical workshops! Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of Europe’s premier neuroscience conference (25-29 June 2024). Submit your proposal now 👉🏼 https://fensforum.org/proposal-submission/

Join us online next week as we celebrate the Grand Prize Winner (Aleksandar Obradovic) & finalists (Roser Vento-Tormo & Joshua Tan) of the 2023 Michelson Philanthropies & @sciencemagazine Prize for #Immunology!

Register here:

https://bit.ly/3K6nAqX

You can learn more about these three talented early-career immunologists & read their essays here:

https://bit.ly/MP-Sci-Imm-Prize