Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Scientific publication is a complex ecosystem, and there is no shortage of views on how to improve it, support it, burn it down, rebuild it, finance it, etc

But we should be able to agree on one thing: forcing authors to format manuscripts before the manuscript is accepted is an immense waste of time.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01846-9

Assistant or Associate Professor, Respiratory Infections in the Immunocompr

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-assistant-or-associate-professor-respiratory-infections-in-the-immunocompr/?feed_id=47460

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Seattle #Un...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-assistant-or-associate-professor-respiratory-infections-in-the-immunocompr/?feed_id=47460

Regulation of the length of neuronal primary cilia and its potential effects on signalling https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(23)00088-0?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Lewis Epstein's incredible book "Gedanken Physics" appears to be basically unavailable to buy in English. But the second edition is freely available on the Internet Archive! What an amazing resource. Some of the unfortunate attitudes in the book are dated but the approach to #physics through problem solving is as fresh today as it ever was.

https://archive.org/details/ThinkingPhysicsPracticalLessonsInCriticalThinking_201808/page/n24/mode/1up

Changing the reaction buttons available on social media sites could reduce the spread of fake news. https://elifesciences.org/digests/85767/combatting-online-misinformation-with-the-click-of-a-button?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Bluesky won't be a good fit for everyone, but for the science-inclined that do make their way there, be sure you land in the What's Science feed organized by @bossett.bsky.social

"‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’, the 1967 lecture that begins with the tribal storyteller, took its inspiration from avant-garde experiments with basic computers. Calvino thought that the use of machines to destabilise literary form, or produce generative disorder, was eminently human. The machine’s ‘true vocation would be for classicism’, having the capacity to infer and follow stylistic rules exactingly. It is interesting to revisit this argument in the era of AI, not least in light of Calvino’s brief, teasing claim that a true ‘literature machine’ would produce avant-garde work ‘to free its circuits when they are choked’ by classicism"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/james-butler/infinite-artichoke

Madrid

In little more than a decade of feverish work, Robert Frank broke the rules of documentary #photography and reset the template for postwar photogs who plied their art with a camera on the street

Here, a young man is carrying a tulip--maybe for the woman in the background? An older man approaches. It's a classic romantic #Paris street photo. The knowledge that Frank had gotten a friend to pose explains how the #photograph came to be — without diminishing its charm

"Tulip/Paris," 1950 #history

#pancreaticcancer is a deadly disease. New #trial data shows early benefits for addition of a personalized #mRNA #vaccine to #adjuvantchemotherapy after resection of the tumor. This feature in Deutsche Welle discusses the implications with Nina Bhardwaj and Drew Weissman #Immunotherapy #oncology https://t.co/j81AOXjcJS

@cyrilpedia Fully agreed! It is not understandable, why still no standard format for all first submissions exist...a simple json or XML type basic layout would be so easy and each journal could build a simple conversion tool to even produce PDFs automatically...

'A global comparison of the long-read data from young and aged mice showed an age-associated increase in the expression of noncoding transcripts, including IgV pseudogenes, lncRNAs and transcripts with retained introns (Supplementary Fig. 7). This is consistent with observations that an increased frequency of intron retention has been identified as a signature of ageing in fruitfly, mouse and human'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04936-6

AstraZeneca invests in Tregs

"One of the most promising UK biotech start-ups, Quell Therapeutics, has signed a research collaboration and licensing deal with AstraZeneca to develop treatments for two autoimmune diseases."

https://www.ft.com/content/92b0e9d5-22c1-4ddd-b135-52de8e200a48

It's official - we have a business! More news soon.

Celebrating with David del Álamo in Madrid.