Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Tessier-Lavigne will be blamed for his vigorous and sometimes bombastic denials of scientific misconduct (here, here, and here), which while perhaps technically correct, don’t read well in light of a report that says his lab culture allowed repeated manipulation of research data. But there is another big issue here that is important for science—running a research laboratory is a full-time job and can’t be done effectively when the principal investigator is simultaneously fulfilling a challenging administrative role.'

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/tessier-lavigne-matter-shows-why-running-lab-full-time-job

Now I have to go see this:

"Kate McKinnon plays a damaged doll cruelly nicknamed Weird Barbie"

https://www.ft.com/content/4efa2465-1045-4dc3-97ad-4b8e91a718e4

@lmrocha The entire interview is worth reading - Chiang expands on this argument and other interesting POVs about aspects of language that LLMs fail at

Thousands of cats have died in Cyprus, according to experts who are warning that a more virulent strain of a feline coronavirus is causing severe illness.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/18/experts-warn-about-feline-coronavirus-after-thousands-of-cat-deaths-in-cyprus

"RFK Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/robert-kennedy-jr-racist-antisemitic-xenophobic-views

What is preprint review? A webinar describing some of the approaches, featuring CSHL, Review Commons, PCI and DocMaps.

https://youtu.be/YM-EsYmQNws

What may be of particular interest to scientists is the discussion about peer review and trust afterwards

https://youtu.be/YM-EsYmQNws?t=5882

American recommendation letters: “This candidate is the most brilliant person alive. I will never in my entire life have a student as smart as this one again.”

European recommendation letters: “This person completed the requirements for my class. They are currently alive.”

'Therefore, to understand the influence of Wolbachia on within-host ZIKV evolution, we characterized the genetic diversity of molecularly barcoded ZIKV virus populations replicating in Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and found that within-host ZIKV evolution was subject to weak purifying selection and, unexpectedly, loose anatomical bottlenecks in the presence and absence of Wolbachia'

#Preprint #Wolbachia #HostPathogen #Virology #InnateImmunity

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.26.546271v1

Teaching R in a Kinder, Gentler, More Effective Manner:

Teach Base-R, Not Just the Tidyverse

Prof. Norm Matloff, University of California, Davis

https://github.com/matloff/TidyverseSkeptic

#RStats

Librarians are more than just book jockeys, they are experts in various fields and are currently defending readers' and writers' rights in the battle against censorship and book bans.
https://theconversation.com/how-book-banning-campaigns-have-changed-the-lives-and-education-of-librarians-they-now-need-to-learn-how-to-plan-for-safety-and-legally-protect-themselves-205743
#Libraries #BookBans #LibrarianPower

Our team just completed a major data release for https://neuronbridge.janelia.org, integrating the new MANC connectome with fly line matches.

Post-doctoral position in France, to work on pediatric liver cancer

Bordeaux Institute in Oncology

The project aims to develop a new strategy to treat patients with hepatoblastoma, the most frequent childhood liver cancer, using gene editing.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/bordeaux-institute-in-oncology-27...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/bordeaux-institute-in-oncology-27778-3-year-post-doctoral-position-in-france-to-work-on-pediatric-liver-cancer-2/?feed_id=51091

The story of the current generation of anti-obesity drugs from early failures with leptin & ghrelin told by one of its pioneers, Matthias Tschöp. A new podcast project, you can listen to "#Obesity is a brain disease" by scrolling down at the link below.

https://www.pioneercampus.org

#science #metabolism #neuroscience #sciencecommunication #sciencepodcast #scicomm

'The authors found a link between asymptomatic infection and an HLA mutation carried by about 10% of the study’s population. People with the mutated gene were twice as likely to remain asymptomatic as were people without it; people with two copies of the gene were eight times as likely. “We were pretty stunned by the magnitude of the effect,” Hollenbach says.'
#COVID #Covid19

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02318-w

'O que aconteceu ontem deixou a comunidade artística do Porto em choque e essa indignação deveria alargar-se a quem não é do Porto e não faz parte da comunidade. O que está a ser feito às principais cidades do país e a forma como os artistas são usados ou esquecidos pelo poder político, ao sabor do que interessa em cada momento, diz respeito a todos.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/19/opiniao/opiniao/centro-comercial-stop-porto-ultima-velhinha-expulsa-cidade-2057338