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
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'Those suffering from long Covid often feel forgotten, in part because the medical establishment is struggling to define, let alone treat, this new condition. As Jana Javornik, a lecturer at Leeds university who suffers from long Covid, told the FT a few months ago, “We are all neglecting that long Covid is not rare and it is a health crisis.”'
#COVID #LongCovid
https://www.ft.com/content/5f547155-787c-4c60-966d-50b48d908a2a
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'Poland is also the E.U.’s biggest operator of mink farms. One obvious worry is whether the minks are getting sick with H5N1 and mink meat is somehow contaminating the food chain and eventually reaching the cats.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1.html
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People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.
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Modern ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ Event Will Be Worse Than First Predicted | Biological Reviews
by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience / @Forbes
#biodiversity #extinction https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern-sixth-mass-extinction-event-will-be-worse-than-first-predicted/
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In 2002, there was a vision to promote & strengthen the genomic sciences in Mexico sustainably through the establishment of an Undergraduate Program in Genomic Sciences. Twenty years later, this vision has impacted science in Mexico and the world. #LCG20🇲🇽
https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/veinte-anos-de-la-licenciatura-en-ciencias-genomicas/
'Earlier, the Colada boys had found evidence of fraud in a paper co-authored by Duke professor Dan Ariely. The real juicy bit? There’s a paper written by both Ariely and Gino in which they might have independently faked the data for two separate studies in the same article. Oh, and the paper is about dishonesty.'
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss
'However, when he tested these high-molecular-weight polysaccharides in animal models, he was quite disappointed to find that they were not immunogenic. Confident that he had the solution, he then decided to inject himself with the high-molecular-weight polysaccharide and made the seminal discovery that the vaccination induced a strong immune response.'
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Ancient scorpion trapped in amber
#FossilFriday https://www.scielo.br/j/jvatitd/a/NGR7dTyggrnGBSxvQ6pdSJs/#
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University of Rennes in France announces that it’s done publishing on the disinformation platform formerly known as Twitter. 👏
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Ministers claimed today that the collapsing school buildings scandal only emerged "over the summer".
In reality schools first started warning about the problem five whole years ago
You'll never guess what happened next.
"The goal was to generate agreement on legally binding shared principles before the next pandemic, with sufficient authority to promote engagement at the highest levels of government.
That was nearly two years ago."
https://www.ft.com/content/17fec31b-909e-4bea-8c0f-cc3e2a597cd8
'However, the contribution of stromal cells of the hematopoietic niches in the control of HSPC asymmetric divisions remains unknown. Using polyacrylamide microwells as minimalist niches, we show that heterotypic interaction with osteoblast promotes asymmetric division of human HSPC.'
#Preprint
Prisca from Jersey deserves its own Springsteen ballad!
"These include the oldest undisputed fossil bee, Cretotrigona prisca, from New Jersey amber, which was recovered far outside of its lineage’s present-day range."
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00912-0
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This #FluorescenceFriday is an exciting one for us, as we announce the winner of our 2023 image competition! After all the votes have been counted, the winner is Rebecca Simkin
with her image of neuromuscular junctions. Find out more about Rebecca & her research:
https://focalplane.biologists.com/2023/09/01/and-the-winner-is/
Thanks to everyone who voted. We had so many fantastic entries for the competition, and we will be featuring many of the researchers in our 'Featured image' posts over the coming weeks.
https://focalplane.biologists.com/?s=Featured+image
'Health authorities in Paris have fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid advance through northern Europe is thought to have been accelerated by climate change.'
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J. Robert Oppenheimer & his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model ("On Continued Gravitational Contraction"), proving for the 1st time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop #OTD in 1939.
They showed when a sufficiently massive star runs out of thermonuclear fuel, it will undergo continued gravitational contraction and become separated from the rest of the universe by a boundary called the event horizon, which not even light can escape.
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"Chemotherapy Shortage Impacts Patients, Physicians, Costs, and Clinical Trials:
The market has failed, and therefore, in my opinion, the federal government needs to solve this problem,”
Mark J. Ratain, MD, FASCO, Chief Hospital Pharmacologist, University of Chicago Medicine, told *The ASCO Post*."
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I spoke to Euronews about Clement Beaune's idea for a minimum flight ticket price - the article is online now https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/31/that-doesnt-reflect-the-price-for-the-planet-france-wants-to-put-a-stop-to-mega-low-airfar In short: anything to make the airline industry foot the environmental costs of flying is good. But I have some questions about whether this will actually work.
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Est-il possible aujourd'hui de faire carrière dans la recherche ?
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A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
