Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

“In our research we found no age was the right age to be a woman leader. There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them. Each individual woman may believe she’s just at the wrong age, but the data make the larger pattern clear. Any age can be stigmatized by supervisors and colleagues to claim that the woman is not valued or is not a fit for a leadership role.”
https://hbr.org/2023/06/women-in-leadership-face-ageism-at-every-age
#leadership #bias #discrimination

The #GOP's freakshow of bigotry and legal assault on #LGBTQ+ people now threatens #HIV+ prevention. #health https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/13/hiv-prep-access-braidwood-florida-tennessee/

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#IDMastodon #Cellimmunity @cellpress
understanding the #Innateimmunity Roles & the actions of type I & III interferons & they are essential for protection from #SARSCoV2 infection & #COVID19. Each is induced in response to infection & serves to restrict viral replication & spread while directing the polarization & modulation of the adaptive immune response .Contrasting roles of types I & III IFNs in #ViralClearance
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(23)00275-3

Your annual reminder: mid-summer is way too early to get a #flu shot.
Got a press release today from GSK announcing it has started shipping flu vaccine doses. You may start seeing signs in pharmacies about availability soon. Better to be vaxed closer to when flu starts spreading.

#academia

Here's a strange insect unknown to most non-entomologists: the pygmy mole cricket. Tridactylidae: Neotridactylus apicalis. I photographed this one at the Stengl Lost Pines field station in Bastrop, Texas.

#Insects #Neotridactylus #Biodiversity

Say it plainly: TX A&M University torpedoes the hiring of a distinguished professor of #journalism because she's Black and Republicans are a #racist freakshow. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/

Just Published!

Cancer Stem Cell as a Target for Immunotherapeutic Approach

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/16833_2023_166

#Cancer #CancerResearch #Immunotherapy #StemCells #CellBiology

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The Swiss have postal banking https://www.post.ch/en and it works amazingly well, services the whole country no matter how remote the village, and is extremely cheap fees-wise.

🚫📲 Mark Zuckerberg has begun blocking Canadian news providers — including The Tyee.

So we ask you, readers: Will you help us gauge the scope of the blast radius?

Our editor in chief David Beers writes. #CdnMedia #BillC18

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/07/12/Meta-Blocked-The-Tyee/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_content=071223-m&utm_campaign=editorial

Kinesin-1 modulates centrosome activity to get nuclei motoring

Read this Research Highlight showcasing work from Maëlys Loh, Fred Bernard and Antoine Guichet from the Institut Jacques Monod:

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/13/e150_e1301/323159/Kinesin-1-modulates-centrosome-activity-to-get

Read the full Research Article 'Kinesin-1 promotes centrosome clustering and nuclear migration in the Drosophila oocyte' here:

https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/13/dev201728/322681/Kinesin-1-promotes-centrosome-clustering-and

So yesterday, I got my first wheelchair as a result of complications from long covid (primarily chronic fatigue and breathlessness from walking). It's made a huge difference for me so far even after just one day - previously I wouldn't have been able to walk more than a few minutes without having to stop and rest for twice as long whilst I catch my breath, but yesterday I was out with a friend for FIVE HOURS, and not once did I lose my breath or feel any extra fatigue! I'm so glad I finally stopped trying to just struggle through it and decided to get the chair, as it's making such a positive impact.

To other wheelchair users out there in the Fediverse: I'd be grateful for any advice you're able to offer me as a new wheelchair user. Anything that you think would be helpful to know would be very gratefully received!

#wheelchair #disabled #disability #covid #LongCovid

Michael Breakspear and Alex Fornito Geometric constraints on human brain function https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06098-1.pdf?pdf=button%20sticky

A Quantitative Theory for Genomic Offset Statistics https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad140 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

William Bourne (c. 1535–1582) the first English author of a book on navigation #HistoryOfNavigation #RenaissanceScience
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/the-first-rule-is-of-a-good-navigator/

One More Reason Why We Need Postal Banking https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/07/13/one-more-reason-why-we-need-postal-banking/