Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program.

Credit: Steve Breen
Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/steve-breen/story/2020-02-24/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-dies-at-101

The Woman Who Smashed Codes – the remarkable story of cryptography pioneer Elizebeth Friedman, born on this day in 1892, who helped defeat the Nazis with pencil, paper, and perseverance https://t.co/S1sRKDYtui

'Hence, a parasite protein known to bind two host cytokine receptor subunits has evolved a third receptor specificity, which serves to raise the avidity and cell type–specific potency of TGF-β signaling in mammalian cells.'
#immunology #Parasitology #HostPathogen

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302370120#sec-2

'A comprehensive meta-analysis revealed that climate change could aggravate more than 50% of known human pathogens. Unfortunately, this is happening now.'

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk4500

'Surprisingly, the protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium emerged second only to rotavirus as a cause of moderate-to-severe diarrhea in children under one year old and continued to be a risk factor in older age groups. While vaccines are available for rotavirus, for Cryptosporidium species there is no vaccine and the only FDA-approved therapy—nitazoxanide—is ineffective in malnourished children and immunocompromised individuals'

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/171966

It's just so brave of all these Christian pastors to go undercover as child molesters to show how the real problem is drag queens, or something. It's like a movement, amirite?https://www.ncnewsonline.com/news/local_news/new-castle-man-convicted-in-child-trafficking-case/article_e0ff54b6-0ae7-11ee-bd0e-875f3dbaa96b.html

Rishi Sunak faces fresh conflict of interest row over India trade talks - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/26/rishi-sunak-faces-fresh-conflict-of-interest-row-over-india-trade-talks they have hundreds of millions of quid between them, but he wants even more. someone with that obsession is not fit to be PM.

Hanging pigeons. #Lisbon #Photography #UrbanLife

“The virus right now is reinfecting a large number of individuals — millions of people — each week,” warned Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead on the COVID-19 response. “We don’t have a good gauge on how many reinfections or infections there actually are because surveillance has declined. But we do have some indications on trends of impact.”

#CovidIsNotOver
#LongCovid
#COVID19
#COVIDReinfection

https://globalnews.ca/news/9919665/covid-infections-northern-hemisphere/

@cyrilpedia brilliant, thank you. Straight into my #immuneevasion teaching lecture later this year...

Current status of SARS-CoV-2 (and BA.2.86)

my conversation with TheWorld.org radio program

https://theworld.org/media/2023-08-25/where-we-are-pandemic

Want to know what my research is about? Follow this thread 🧵 based on a 10min talk I've drawn for a meeting.

The talk was aimed at non-specialist space science colleagues (not the general public!). The slides were built up step by step, but I'm omitting this here & showing only the final graphs, less this becomes a 34-part thread. 11 is plenty enough!

So: "Understanding Winds of Massive Stars Using High Mass X-ray Binaries"

#astrodon #XraysAreTheBestRays #SciArt #scicomm #VicisAstro
1/11

Mercilessly.

"Kill your darlings. Sometimes you’ll write a phrase that is so elegant and so well crafted, it jars with the rest of your writing and pulls the reader out of the flow. So cut it. As Stephen King once put it: ‘Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings’."

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/some-tips-for-scientific-writing

@cyrilpedia
"In 2021, China went from being a net exporter to a net importer of scientists, helped in part by restrictions in G7 countries on Chinese students working in strategically important sectors such as AI. “The US government’s various initiatives have inadvertently boosted Chinese Stem researchers’ returning home,” says Yu.

One may hope that openness & mutual benefit prevails, but it's not foregone. (Survey: >80% papers I read have >1 Chinese author.)

See also
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/16/the-peace-corps-breaks-ties-with-china

Single cell omics #singlecellomics from bench to bedside: conference and workshop at KU Leuven in Belgium. Two days of technology and application in October give a deep insight in the nuts-and-bolts of the current state of the art. Meet Abhishek Garg, Yvan Saeyes, Sabine Tejpar, Baki Topal, Jessica Roelands, Steven de Vleeschouwer and more @cyrilpedia @chfloudas #biology #transcriptomics #proteomics #multiplexing #tissue #clinics #standardization #data #highDimensional
https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000622/single-cell-course

"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."

Bertrand Russell on the cure for our existential helplessness https://t.co/z2oIo2EWv0

Happy birthday to #geologist & #paleontogist Alice Wilson (1881-1964).⁠
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A job in the Mineralogy Division of the U of Toronto Museum was her entry into #geology. In 1909 as a museum assistant with Geological Survey of Canada (GSC), in Ottawa, she catalogued & labelled invertebrate paleontology collections. After completing her BSc in ‘11 she was 1st woman offered a position at GSC & 1st female geologist in #Canada.

🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #MastoArt

“Billionaire philanthropist” is an oxymoron. A true philanthropist would never amass that much wealth in the first place.