Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurophysiology

University of Missouri

3 Postdoctoral fellows to investigate autonomic regulation in cardiovascular function in both health and disease

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-missouri-27778-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-neurophysiology/?feed_id=56728

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Columbia #UnitedS...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-missouri-27778-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-neurophysiology/?feed_id=56728

"The levels of R-loops were found to be increased up to 50-fold in cells that maintain high-risk HPV genomes and were readily detected in squamous cell cervical carcinomas in vivo but not in normal cells."
#Virology #HPV

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305907120

🔮The future of academic publishing 🔮

It was great to be invited to contribute to this feature piece for Nature Human Behaviour!

"Preprints can improve publishing" can be read on Page 2, along with many other fascinating perspectives!

Open Access🔓: rdcu.be/dgL20

Global COVID monitoring is crashing as BA.2.86 variant raises alarm

"This is on the shoulders of governments right now."

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/global-covid-monitoring-is-crashing-as-ba-2-86-variant-raises-alarm/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

' Some of these hunters, writes Flores, may have genuinely believed that these animal populations were inexhaustible, but plenty understood the likely consequences of their actions. Decades after the slaughter, a hunter named Frank Meyer reflected on the origins of “buffalo fever”: “Maybe we were just a greedy lot who wanted to get ours and to hell with posterity, the buffalo, and anyone else…. I think maybe that is the way it was.”

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/08/17/the-nature-trade-wild-new-world-market-in-birds/

This is a great podcast:

"This nine-part series tells the story of Salvador Allende, socialist president of Chile in the early 1970s, and his efforts to wrest control of technology from multinational corporations to create a fairer local economy."

https://www.ft.com/content/f70cfd9a-7d62-4834-abf7-615f4bee3229

'Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a leading cause of sexually transmitted disease and a concern due to increasing AMR. It contains a restricted repertoire of plasmids, including a conjugative plasmid, pConj, which disseminates plasmid-mediated AMR. We show that, in contrast to broad host range plasmids, pConj is largely restricted to and adapted to N. gonorrhoeae, and has been remarkably conserved since it first emerged over 80 years ago.'
#AMR #Plasmid #antibioticresistance #Evolution

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010743

In a mouse breast cancer model

"Age had no effect on tumor growth but increased lung and liver metastasis after 16 weeks. Obesity increased tumor growth starting at 12 weeks, increased liver metastasis only at 4 weeks, and weight gain correlated to increased lung but not liver metastasis"

#Preprint #Metabolism

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.24.554492v1

'Pulse oximeters routinely overestimated levels of oxygen in the blood in darker-skinned Covid patients, leading to delays in treatment and hospital readmissions, according to a research article published on Thursday.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/health/oxygen-covid-treatment-race.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

I've taken the plunge and moved instances to hachyderm, so here is my #introduction

Hi! I'm Zhian!

I am recovering #bioinformatician and a research software engineer. I've used #RStats for the last 10 years to provide tools for researchers. I currently work for @thecarpentries, where I recently finished building The Carpentries Workbench (https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/) to support authoring #accessible lessons for #DataScience. I toot about #cats, #biking, #FOSS, and #puns

@Nature
Given that vaccination remains the most effective approach to prevent influenza infections in older adults ,strategies are urgently needed to improve both HAI and additional functional correlates of immunity in this population
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40699-8

“Top review says COVID lockdowns and masks worked, period”

https://www.politico.eu/article/masks-lockdowns-social-distancing-evidence-reduce-coronavirus-spread/

Symposium now published ahead of print: "Shifts in #Mutation Bias Promote #Mutators by Altering the Distribution of #Fitness Effects" by Marwa Z. Tuffaha, Saranya Varakunan, David Castellano, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, and Lindi M. Wahl
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726010#fn1

In Berlin, Germany, pop-up bike lanes have become permanent, with benefits for the climate and safety.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24082023/inside-clean-energy-berlin-bike-lanes-controversy-policy/

@cyrilpedia Fair question! 😂

' En todos los escenarios, hay ocho regiones españolas que están entre las más perjudicadas en la reducción del número de pernoctaciones. Son Baleares, Murcia, la Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura, Andalucía, Comunidad de Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha y Cataluña. Además, España en su conjunto es tras Chipre, Grecia y Portugal el país europeo que más visitantes perderá.'

https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2023-08-24/a-donde-iran-los-turistas-el-mapa-europeo-de-los-destinos-ganadores-y-perdedores-por-la-crisis-climatica.html

'I have said in one of my few forays into nonfiction (On Writing) that you can’t learn to write unless you’re a reader, and unless you read a lot. AI programmers have apparently taken this advice to heart.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/08/stephen-king-books-ai-writing/675088/

'Several indicators suggest that the quality of Chinese research is improving. Between 2012 and 2021, China’s share of the top 1% of the most-cited papers grew by 40%, while the US’s share dropped by 18%. The US is still ahead, according to Clarivate’s data, but the gap is narrowing, and other estimates suggest that China has already overtaken the US.'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/23/us-china-research-collaboration-science-hangs-in-balance