Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Hospitals in New York, California, and now Massachusetts have reinstated mask mandates due to a surge in #COVID infections. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/umass-memorial-mask-mandate-staff-covid/?fbclid=IwAR1rfcFqvUTboVKnlTGFintfxiuFiSk-36irqEVhjEfUaJGBm0oPT8Vy9SM
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
If you're in BC you can request free N95 masks from maskblocBC. A snug respirator prevents inhalation of wildfire smoke & COVID-19. This link will take you to their request form: https://tinyurl.com/vxz2rwfz #covidisairborne #WildfireSmoke
'In patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and obesity, treatment with semaglutide (2.4 mg) led to larger reductions in symptoms and physical limitations, greater improvements in exercise function, and greater weight loss than placebo'
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2306963?query=featured_homeo
'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Meoto-iwa or the Wedded Rocks are found just off the coast of Ise in Mie Prefecture in Japan. They symbolise the sacred marriage of the Japanese creator deities Izanagi and Izanami. You can read more about them here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/05/izanami-and-izanagi.html
#folklore #mythology @folklore
🎨1. Koho, ca. 1910-30s.
2. Tokuriki Tomikichiro, 1940
'The number of people employed in life sciences in Ireland has surged by 80 per cent to almost 100,000 over the past decade on the back of almost $15bn in capital investment in the sector. Last year a record 301,475 people worked at multinationals, which paid 86 per cent of all corporate taxes received in the country of 5mn people.'
https://www.ft.com/content/706578ed-6d66-4b16-9112-5026b77cdb95
'Drought and wildfires across southern Europe this summer are the most overt signs of a complex and entrenched water scarcity problem that is becoming more severe as the climate changes. “There is no country in Europe that can pretend to be shielded,” said Xavier Leflaive, who leads the water team in the OECD’s environment directorate.'
https://www.ft.com/content/80122ded-4158-45f9-915c-a52b5fb2d088
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
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
Thiago Carvalho
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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
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'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
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'A comprehensive meta-analysis revealed that climate change could aggravate more than 50% of known human pathogens. Unfortunately, this is happening now.'
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
'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'
Thiago Carvalho
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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
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
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.
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
“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/
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
@cyrilpedia brilliant, thank you. Straight into my #immuneevasion teaching lecture later this year...
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
Current status of SARS-CoV-2 (and BA.2.86)
my conversation with TheWorld.org radio program
'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
Thiago Carvalho
boosted
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
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
