Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Intelligence Board Recommends Curbing F.B.I.’s Power to Use Surveillance Program
A presidential advisory panel suggests barring the F.B.I. from using Section 702 to hunt for evidence of crimes without a connection to foreign intelligence
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/fbi-warantless-surveillance-section-702.html

See also (NSO Group, FBI):

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110809578692218555
Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/us/politics/nso-spy-tool-landmark-fbi.html

#Section702 #FBI #privacy #surveillance #NSOGroup

No matter how matter how many times I walk past or how commonplace I know it to be, this joint always feel like a the set of a theatrical production. #Vietnam #StreetPhotography

'July is a hard month for a lot of us here in New Mexico, where thousands of people’s lives were upended by the test of the world’s first nuclear bomb. The events of July 16, 1945, weigh heavily on us. And why wouldn’t they? They changed everything. The people of New Mexico were the first human test subjects of the world’s most powerful weapon.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/international-world/oppenheimer-nuclear-bomb-cancer.html

"Protein copy numbers constrain systems-level properties of regulatory networks, but absolute proteomic data remain scarce compared to transcriptomics obtained by RNA sequencing. We addressed this persistent gap by relating mRNA to protein statistically using best-available data from quantitative proteomics-transcriptomics for 4366 genes in 369 cell lines."
#Preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.10.548432v1

Another huge #HPV vaccination study from Scandinavia, this time with > 2 million subjects in Norway. The HPV #vaccine was most effective against anogenital warts when given during teen years. #IDMastodon & #ObGynodon

Our new Perspective is out in Nature Microbiology today. It covers some common/emerging myths and misconceptions in the human #microbiome field, and explains why they are likely incorrect: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01426-7

A hopefully helpful primer against uncritical repetition.

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Sociologists: Apply to work with me at McGill Sociology!

We are hiring TWO tenure-track lines this year, one in social demography and one in qualitative methods. I can't say enough good things about the department, and Montreal is an unbeatable place to live.

Demography: https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Leacock-Building/Assistant-Professor_JR0000028940

Qualitative: https://mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Careers/job/Leacock-Building/Assistant-Professor---Department-of-Sociology_JR0000043118

#sociology #sociologie #socjobs #academicjobs @sociology

My latest update on next generation Covid vaccines (No 9) is out now @PLOS

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/07/31/next-generation-covid-vaccines-update-no-9-major-new-hat-in-the-ring-plus-important-results/

It's packed with news, including 3 highlights:

- A major new international collaboration to develop a pancoronavirus vax, including a global pharma company

- Preclinical results for a "cocktail" pancoronavirus approach that protected hamsters from 2 Omicron variants & 2 bat coronaviruses

- Very early clinical trial results for a potentially potent intranasal vaccine

#Covid #Covid19 #vaccine

#IDMastodon #publichealth #Viralimmunology Understanding why we have different responses & symptoms to #SARSCoV2 ( #COVID19) & #influenza 🦠. What these 2 diseases have in common is that they are triggered by a viral infection, which causes fever & pneumonia of varying degrees of severity in infected patients. #Autoantibodies against #interferons, or why certain 🦠 affect us differently
https://rupress.org/jem/article/220/9/e20230661/214186/Autoantibodies-neutralizing-type-I-IFNs-underlie

Bioinformatician in Cancer Genomics

Washington University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-27778-bioinformatician-in-cancer-genomics/?feed_id=52982

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
St Louis #UnitedStatesUS #Bioinformatician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-27778-bioinformatician-in-cancer-genomics/?feed_id=52982

"On doit exiger de moi que je cherche la vérité, mais non que je la trouve."
Pensées philosophiques (1746)

Denis Diderot died #OTD in 1784. He was a novelist, playwright, storyteller, essayist, dialogue writer, art critic, literary critic & translator, co-founder, chief editor, & contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. via @wikipedia

Books by Denis Diderot at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2071

#books #literature

@cyrilpedia 4,800. So many.

The International #BrainBee 2023 World Championship starts today! Don't miss the exciting student competition! You can watch live at www.thebrainbee.org.