Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Very proud of this paper that was led by a wonderful postdoc in my lab, Iva Lučić. My first paper without any channels, I think. #biophysics #enzymes #neuroscience #memory

CaMKII autophosphorylation can occur between holoenzymes without subunit exchange https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86090

Postdoctoral position available on Hsp70 and ALS

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Postdoctoral position available on using structural proteomics to investigate the role of Hsp70 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-north-carolina-at-charlotte-27778-postdoctoral-posi...
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DeSantis’s Florida Approves Climate-Denial Videos in Schools// So the Republican fake-fact factories are hard at work, I see. They fill our kids’ heads with lies about the risks to our planet’s future with one hand while burning it all down with the other.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/desantiss-florida-approves-climate-denial-videos-in-schools/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-in-science&utm_content=link&utm_term=2023-08-11_top-stories

The wrath of Ken

#StarTrek

My lab studies the evolution and diversity of the eukaryotic endomembrane system. Its earliest origins and how it has evolved and adapted in the many independent transitions from heterotrophy to parasitism are of particular interest. I am a protistologist, cell biologist, and a molecular evolutionist. I also aspire to be an scholar, an ally, a colleague, and a supporter.

#UAlberta #Division of Infectious Diseases #Department of Medicine #Department of Biological sciences

#UCL #CLOE #CAS

Small-town newspaper offices in Kansas raided by entire police force after writing about a politician and a restaurant owner they had been reporting about. https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

"Great horned owls find their voice while they are still doubled over in the dark of their moon-shaped egg. Having punctured the small air cell inside the egg’s membrane with their budding beak, the proto-owlets inflate their lungs and start chittering. To each its private void, in a confinement growing tighter the bigger they get. If a spectral sound is supposed to come from beyond the grave, what word might characterize the babble of embryonic life, the noises of beings too tenuous to out themselves from their shell?"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/owl-senses-smart-animal-intelligence/674769/

"A particular worry is the effect on food security. Shocks to weather patterns could be fatal for farmers in countries already reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and extreme weather events made worse by the climate crisis."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/10/return-of-el-nino-raises-risk-of-hunger-drought-and-malaria-scientists-warn

19,260,000 voters purged.

19,260,000 .

Read the whole thing.

Another #MustRead by @ThomHartmann

#Elections #Republicans #Democracy #Fascism

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/the-shocking-voter-purge-crisis-of-c66?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

UK Health Security Agency's advice for who should get a #flu shot are pretty interesting. Unlike the US, UKHSA doesn't advise jabs for all. Older adults, little kids, some older kids and carers, in the main.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/flu-vaccination-who-should-have-it-this-winter-and-why/the-flu-vaccination-who-should-have-it-and-why-winter-2023-to-2024

When there are attacks on what is being taught in classrooms there is often a statement of “they should just teach the classics!”

But they want to ban the classics too…
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/08/concerns-over-sex-content-leads-florida-schools-pull-shakespeare/

If you cant get more humans

"One important insight from this discourse is the need for larger samples, which naturally increases statistical power. An alternative is to increase the precision of measurements, which is the focus of this review"
#neuroscience

https://elifesciences.org/articles/85980

The free market strikes again:

"Figuring out which technology to use in schools should be simple, but it hasn’t always been easy, especially because of the influence of private companies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/air-filter-covid-smoke-schools.html

Physicist Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry without her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://whyy.org/articles/lise-meitner-the-forgotten-woman-of-nuclear-physics-who-deserved-a-nobel-prize/ #science #history

Practical advice & a fun story: these gambling strategies are mathematically guaranteed to make money ... but you should never use them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-gambling-strategy-thats-guaranteed-to-make-money-and-why-you-should-never-use-it/