Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Exciting work from Chloe Mikles' undergraduate thesis is finally out in
conservation genetics! Chloe sequenced whole genome sequences from 39 Song Sparrows in the San Francisco Bay Area
to explore the genetic basis of local adaptation and adaptive capacity among the 5 subspecies
found in the region.

Evolutionary divergence and adaptive capacity in morphologically distinct song sparrow subspecies
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-023-01547-w

#ornithology #ConservationGenomics #sparrows
#saltmarshes

In our One Topic, One Loop series, Aldo Faisal from Imperial College London and University of Bayreuth explains how #neuroscientists distinguish #AI output from human output, and emphasizes the importance of building knowledge to build trust: https://go.tum.de/309363 🌐

#Neuroscience #GenerativeAI

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Research Associate I/II - Mass Spectrometry Proteomics - Frederick, MD job with Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research | https://www.biospace.com/job/2789667/research-associate-i-ii-mass-spectrometry-proteomics/ #proteomics

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the #SupremeCourt Justice to Luxury Travel
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The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #News

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-other-billionaires-sokol-huizenga-novelly-supreme-court?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Citations to social media posts?

I've seen this happen a few times in academic talks as well as peer-reviewed publications: someone quotes and cites a post from a social media (like a post here).

Under what conditions do you think this is appropriate? I'm not so sure it's a great idea.

The thoughts I post here are somewhere between "musing things through" and things I'd write in an archival publication. I don't want to have to hold them to the same bar that I hold for archivable/publishable words (if I did, I'd stop musing). I'm dismayed to think that my musings might be used in a publication to make some point.

But I can also see when it might be relevant/important.

My take is that we should hold words on social media to the same bar as traditional "personal communication" where we seek permission from the author to use the quotes (definitely in publications; ideally in formal talks as well).

Any disagreements?

A #rejectedCover from 2021
for this paper - Multisensory coding of angular head velocity in the retrosplenial cortex https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(21)00846-1

"We too often mistake individuals’ honor for race development and so are ready to substitute pretty accomplishments for sound sense and earnest purpose."
A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was born #OTD in 1858. She was an author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in US history. via @wikipedia

Books by Anna J. Cooper at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61741

#books #literature

Two research technician positions in our lab to work on #Wolbachia antiviral protection and titres regulation. Join our team to start your research career in this #ERC project. Applications until 16 August. More details at https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2023/08/ENG_ERC_LTeixeira.pdf Please boost.

New preprint from us. This turned into a small study after we noticed CARD wasn't picking up a known beta-lactamase gene in a little-studied bacterium.

Lelliottia amnigena recovered from the lung of a harbour porpoise, and comparative analyses with Lelliottia spp. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.09.552678v1

Introducing a new blog series: Honest conversations

We hope this allows people to write about the ups and downs in their academic journey and create frank conversations around less-discussed topics on the Node.

Read the first two posts in the series ⬇

https://thenode.biologists.com/introducing-a-new-blog-series-honest-conversations/news/

New article! Read Protective antibody threshold of RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine correlates antigen and adjuvant dose in mouse model https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-023-00714-x?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon in npj Vaccines

#transcriptomics #biology #PostdocLife

"Friday night in San Francisco" by Al Di Meola, John MacLaughlin and Paco De Lucia has to be one of the best albums ever in the history of #music (that's at least my opinion today). An exquisite mix of #Flamenco, #Jazz and a bunch of other influences. I think it even qualifies to #interdisciplinary research project.
Played only with the three #guitars and the public - the energy of the live performance is palpable in the the recording.
Came out #OTD in 1981.
#guitar

Battle for the beaches: Greek islanders fight for access.

In a protest dubbed "the beach towel revolt," Greek islanders are fighting the creeping, illegal privatisation of beaches.

The "towel movement" demands free access and space for those who don't want to rent sun loungers.

https://www.dw.com/en/battle-for-the-beaches-greek-islanders-fight-for-access/a-66479752

#Greece #Beach #Tourism #Privatisation

A new study by the Bertelsmann Foundation shows the relevance of disinformation and its potential to threaten democracy in Europe: a majority is unsettled, 39% often encounter disinformation, and the vast majority would like to see more use of policies against disinformation.

(figures unfortunately only in German)
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