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
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Mitophagy receptor Nix can induce autophagy independent of LIR-mediated ATG8 recruitment - via its minimal essential region (MER) interacting with WIPI2
Rick Youle and collaborators
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2023113491
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Unite and Unison back campaign to exempt strike days from maternity pay calculations, rightly calling the current system where new parents are penalised twice for taking part in industrial action by losing part of maternity pay ‘immoral’ https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/aug/28/uk-unions-say-cutting-maternity-pay-for-striking-pregnant-workers-is-immoral
#EmploymentLaw #Maternity #IndustrialAction #Strikes #WorkersRights
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Today's editorial on the new #LongCovid study
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/story/2023-08-24/long-covid-heart-disease-alzheimers-diabetes-depression
In-depth review here
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/long-term-long-covid
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William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus #OTD in 1789, during the first use of his 1.2 m 40-foot telescope, then the largest in the world, at Observatory House in Slough, England.
Its faint apparent magnitude (HV = +11.7) & its proximity to the much brighter Saturn and Saturn's rings make Enceladus difficult to observe from Earth with smaller telescopes. But little was known about it until the two Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 & 2, flew by Saturn in 1980 & 1981.
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Travelling by train in Europe should be silky smooth.
From pan-European corridors to interregional connections, we have helped build greener and sustainable ways into #Europe.
And we are up for more:
🚊 Today, we earmarked more than €52 million to support the purchase of 37 electric #trains for 13 interregional routes in Romania.
🚆 This month, we allocated €411 million to help build two sections of Spain’s Murcia-Almería high-speed railway.
Discover more: https://europa.eu/!J6DBmw
'A few journals do offer more-accessible solutions to reduce the language gap. The Society for the Study of Evolution launched an English-language mentoring programme to support authors submitting work to the journal Evolution. Authors get to work with an editor assigned to make light-touch edits and discuss ways to improve the clarity of the text.'
'The study found, for example, that almost none of the journals analysed state that they will not reject manuscripts solely on the basis of the quality of English-language writing. Such a lack of support can have serious repercussions for scientists’ careers.'
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Bizarre extraterrestrial-like beings in 19th-century gynecological diagrams. "the diagrams look more like an instruction manual for a naked alien gymnastics course." https://boingboing.net/2023/08/26/bizarre-extraterrestrial-like-beings-in-19th-century-gynecological-diagrams.html
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"Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves."
In: The Word Book Complete Word Power Library
Hugo Grotius died #OTD in 1645. Two of his books have had a lasting impact in the field of international law: De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) dedicated to Louis XIII of France and the Mare Liberum (The Free Seas) for which Grotius has been called the "father of international law". via @wikipedia
Books by Hugo Grotius at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5744
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Last pristine place on Earth
Deep sea mining will obliterate some of most pristine ecosystems on Earth, such as stretch of ocean from Hawaii to Mexico which is to be mined and where, scientists recently cataloged more than 5,500 deep-sea species #climate
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Super cool work on functional specialisation in artificial neural networks, lead by @GabrielBena together with @neuralreckoning
"Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02626
Gabriel also recently joined Mastodon, so give him a follow if you are interested in #neuroscience #ML #AI #research !
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"Emails reveal Secret Service contacts with Oath Keepers"
That's bad!
'The vessel is inscribed, telling us who Sedatus was: a Roman citizen (because of his triple name) and the presiding ritualist who summoned the spirits. Beneath this statement is a long list of spirit names, almost all of which are unknown to archaeologists. But one stands out: ‘Dru’. If we are right in assuming this is an abbreviation of ‘Druid’ (and what else could it be?) then it is the only direct archaeological evidence for the existence of the Druids.'
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-archaeology-tell-us-about-the-druids-dark-arts
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WEBINAR: How to achieve #VaccineEquity
Tuesday 29 Aug, 14:00 CEST
Register here: http://bit.ly/vaccine-equity-webinar
'E quando as vemos lá vai o pessoal ver os corpos lindos delas a dançar. Isso é o exótico. Mas o batuque é resistência, vem de uma história de resistência de escravidão. Essa relação nunca é feita. Aquilo não é tipo resiliência nem boa vibe; aquilo é uma história. Uma história de resistência e está aqui na cidade de Lisboa e é importante percebê-la.'
'In total, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 2.2 billion people have impaired vision and, for at least 1 billion of these, it could be prevented or treated. In Northern Cape, South Africa’s largest province, only one public hospital offers the routine operation.'
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Photos from the 1911 expedition to Antarctica: ice mask - by Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962), Australian
'To fill this gap, we present here bioinformatics analysis of 1702 proteins, selected from different aging-related databases, studies, and networks to evaluate the prevalence of intrinsic disorder in these proteins associated with aging.'
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00018-023-04897-3
'For some researchers, the fragmented scientific outcomes of the HBP stem from a lack of focus. “A project that lasts over ten years, I would expect it to produce a conceptual breakthrough,” says Fred Wolf, a theoretical neurophysicist at the University of Göttingen, Germany, who left the HBP after signing the open letter. But that wasn’t the case for the HBP, he says.'
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Chaotic aging: intrinsically disordered proteins in aging-related processes | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00018-023-04897-3 #proteomics
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
