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
'In a 2016 article for The Atlantic, Edward Simon explored the sci-fi that was published during and before the peak of the scientific revolution, including such novels as Thomas More’s Utopia, Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, and Johannes Kepler’s Somnium. Literature helped spark curiosity as new scientific understandings were developing, he explained. “Science fiction alone did not inspire the scientific revolution, but the literature of the era did allow people to imagine different realities—in some cases, long before those realities actually became real,” Simon wrote.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/08/science-fiction-technology/675206/
Thiago Carvalho
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So now that I have X-ited Twitter for good and settled in the #Fediverse, it is time to renew my #introduction, or rather my #introduction thread.
I am a physics scholar, vice president of Université de Lorraine, in charge of the digital, data and #OpenScience policies. I also work for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in charge of the international side of #OpenScience.
Thiago Carvalho
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‘Academia is a meritocracy’ 🫠🚩
#academia #academicchatter #academicmastodon #highered
'Estou convencido, contudo, de que há ainda duas razões principais, por ordem crescente: ser homossexual num tempo em que isso constituía um risco mortal; mas, sobretudo, ser a prova viva de que o génio existe, o que pode ser imperdoável para alguma gente.'
https://www.dn.pt/opiniao/onze-minutos-com-lorca-16954003.html
'A firefighters runs as a wildfire intensifies in the village of Sidiro and Yannuli in Evros, Greece, on August 31, 2023. #
Ayhan Mehmet / Anadolu Agency / Getty'
Thiago Carvalho
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Astronomers have discovered a rare system containing two long-period #planets orbiting TOI-4600, a nearby #star 815 light years from Earth.
The star hosts an inner #planet with an orbital period of 82 days while a second outer planet circles the star every 482 days.
Both planets are likely gas giants, similar to Jupiter and Saturn, though the composition of the inner planet may be more of a mix of gas and ice.
#astronomy #exoplanets
https://news.mit.edu/2023/newly-discovered-planet-has-longest-orbit-yet-detected-tess-mission-0830
Thiago Carvalho
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Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich.
Thiago Carvalho
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If you're wondering why there are so few news stories about the rise of #Mastodon, it's because nobody is getting paid to game the media about it.
There's no publicists, no cozy ad deals, no suits, no coercion: Nobody is getting rich off of Mastodon
... that's also why it's so enlightening and fun to participate here
Thiago Carvalho
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Trump met with pharma lobbyists and nixed his promise to have Medicare negotiate drug prices.
Biden just announced Medicare would negotiate drug prices on ten popular drugs used by millions of seniors.
The first is empty talk. The second is bold action.
'The field of evolutionary biology lost a great one on May 18, 2023. Known for his mathematical rigor and tenacity in population genetic and phylogenetic analysis, no one has had a greater impact on the emergence of a formal field of molecular evolution than Masatoshi Nei.'
'Ann Al Sawoor não conseguiu voltar ao Iraque. Nunca se esquecerá quando os jihadistas invadiram a sua cidade e a torturam, a si e à sua família. Ann Al Sawoor teve de deixar o país. “Sou cristã, mulher e cientista. Os jihadistas não aceitam”, conta a matemática, que agora vive e faz investigação em França. “A ciência é a minha vida.”
Thiago Carvalho
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The panic about trans youth is funded by and part of a larger strategy to privatize education:
"Thus was set the formula that billionaires from David Koch in that era to Betsy DeVos in this day use to push for the destruction of public education..."
Republicans and right-wing billionaires want a nation of uneducated serfs - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/gop-news/
'In his memoir, he wrote of doubting his own senses when he first saw the devastation from two miles away: “The whole city was covered in dark clouds and conflagrations were breaking out in various directions … I was terribly afraid. It was then that black drops of rain, as big as raspberries, began to fall.”
Thiago Carvalho
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Know her name: Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) made contributions to #astronomy that are still important to the field today.
And she’s just one in a long line of female astronomers who did not receive the credit they were due and whose work was used to justify prizes for male scientists instead.
#astronomy #womeninstem @histodons #womenshistory
https://theconversation.com/caroline-herschel-was-the-first-female-astronomer-but-she-still-lacks-name-recognition-two-centuries-later-210768
'Researchers in China have found evidence suggesting that 930,000 years ago, the ancestors of modern humans suffered a massive population crash. They point to a drastic change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause.'
Thiago Carvalho
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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
Thiago Carvalho
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'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.'
Thiago Carvalho
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To quote Dr Frank N Further from Rocky Horror... 🫧
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🎵 Don't dream it, be it 🎶
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'Recent description of the developmental stages along the differentiation trajectory of T cell exhaustion has provided insight into past immunotherapeutic success and future opportunities. Here, we discuss the hallmarks of distinct developmental stages occurring along the path to T cell dysfunction and the impact of these discrete CD8+ T cell fates on cancer immunotherapy.'
#Immunology
Thiago Carvalho
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'In an ideal world, the authors would engage collaboratively with journals and those who have raised concerns on determining how to adjust the scientific record to account for these problems, and journals would post updates quickly. This rarely happens, and that needs to change.'
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-31/stanford-marc-tessier-lavigne-science-retractions
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
