Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"The effects of climate change driven by human activity are now part of the daily news cycle, and time is running out for decisive action."

Lab & academia's responsibilities in the climate emergency. A privilege to collaborate with @mucida & Rachel on this Nature Immunology commentary.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01546-6

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Hey kids, do you like drugs? 💊

Specifically, do you like designing novel drugs that help cure people with B cell malignancies and Acute Myeloid Leukemia?

Then do I have a job opportunity for you!

We are seeking a crystallographically minded postdoc/project research scientist to work on inhibitor development for PKCBeta...

#DrugDesign #PostdocJobs #Science #StructuralBiology #Cancer @strucbio #Crystallography

Expanding the #toolbox for non-model organisms

From: @PLOSBiology
https://fediscience.org/@PLOSBiology/110765140032097387

On the same day that Sunak blew 50 grand on a private jet to Aberdeen, it's reported that the FM spent £534 on a return flight between Edinburgh and London City.

Guess which one made the Scottish papers.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23691315.humza-yousaf-slated-eyewatering-hotel-bill-london-debut-fm

This blog is the first I've actively subscribed to in many many years. I WANT to be alerted to new articles. Adam's writing style is fun, engaging, and thought-provoking. Really a must-read for the #AcademicChatter and #OpenScience crowd.

Includes great insights like:
"Right now, professional science is like a world where every organism is trying to be a mammal. Mammals are great: milk-producing glands, body hair, ears that have three bones in them, what’s not to like?"

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/an-invitation-to-a-secret-society

#introduction😀

I study #immune #evolution, including host - #pathogen interactions. My work has focused on #antimicrobial #defense #peptides which are like #antibiotics coded by the #genome . A key focus is #immunity-#microbiome interactions 🦠

New PP: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774

I also talk ethical publishing and advancing the conversation on #preprint, #openscience, and #academicchatter.

See:
http://bit.ly/WhatPredPub
http://bit.ly/1yrPredPub

Swiss #SNSF mobility fellow in #UoE UK. Cheers! 👋

New in @sciencemagazine (🐦): our #immune system doesn't just shape our #microbiome, our microbiome shapes our immune system. Our study supports the idea that specific host immune genes have been tailored/selected to deal with specific microbes.

1/n

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg5725

A picture tells a thousand words.

#Tories #grifters #GriftersGonnaGrift #bigoil #Corruption #RishiSnake #RishiSunak #northseagas #northseaoil

Tasmania breaks July winter temperature records; Sydney records hottest July temperature.

It seems July temperature records aren't only being broken during the northern hemisphere heatwaves, but also in the depths of winter season in Australia.

https://takvera.blogspot.com/2023/08/tasmania-breaks-july-winter-temperature.html

#Winter #Heatwave #Australia #ClimateCrisis #Temperatures #ClimateDiary

"It’s OK for science to be fun. Because scientific naming is one of the creative acts in all of science, it’s one place we can have a little fun; and I’m solidly behind that." https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/wonderful-latin-names-acanthobunocephalus-scruggsi/

Assistant Professorship tenure track in Biomacromolecular NMR Spectroscopy

University of Zurich, Faculty of Science

We are seeking candidates with an excellent track record and the potential to establish an inter-nationally leading research group.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-zurich-faculty-of-science-27778-assistant-professorship-tenure-track-in-biomacromolecular-nmr-spectroscopy/?feed_id=53161

Scientists uncover a surprising connection between number theory and evolutionary genetics
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-uncover-theory-evolutionary-genetics.html

* number theory finds unexpected applications in science/engineering, f. leaf angles that (almost) universally follow Fibonacci sequence, to modern encryption techniques based on factoring prime numbers
* researchers have demonstrated an unexpected link between number theory & evolutionary genetics
...

#mathematics #genetics #NumberTheory #evolution #mutation

Talking to first-time conference attendee who's nervous about social interactions.
My strategies:

1)Line up for coffee, say hi to person behind you. Where are you traveling from? or What do you work on? Safe Qs
2)Patrol posters. ALWAYS someone at poster hoping for interest. It's win-win!
3)Attend networking events, They're made to help you connect!
4)Scan the periphery, where other newbies lurk.
5)Review & adhere to code-of-conduct, get help if someone gets creepy.
And 6)Don't be creepy.

Toot!

August 1, 1744, birthday of French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de #Lamarck, famous as he proposed an early version of evolutionary theory, he also worked on geological problems & proposed a sort of "continental drift" to explain changes of Earth's surface 🌍

http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2015/01/from-contracting-earth-to-early.html?fbclid=IwAR3cR2IPU-59l2wrLZGtlB50I5voP7s7g2EGOIGg1wDW6z7dtwRFjtU_DPE