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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'As a young psychologist, this chills me to my bones. Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter.'
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss
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Well that didn't last long:
at the start of the day #JeremyHunt declared the #Tories would 'spend whatever it takes' to deal with the schools buildings crisis.... but by the end of the day it clear that actually there would be no new money & the Dept. Education would need to take the funds for remedial work from their existing budget(s).
So, yes (as I posted a couple of days ago), just one more Tory but of attrition on publicly funded #education.
Or perhaps better:
more bullish*t from Hunt
'Bipartisan support continued through three reauthorizations of the program. That ended this year, when Republicans took over the House with a slim majority that was beholden to the MAGA wing of the party, which has been looking for opportunities to damage any Biden administration priorities. PEPFAR became a target when the Heritage Foundation released a falsehood-ridden report in May saying the administration was using it as a “vehicle to promote its domestic radical social agenda overseas,” specifically abortion and L.G.B.T.Q. issues.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opinion/pepfar-abortion-republicans.html
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Saudi man sentenced to death for tweets in harshest verdict yet for online critics
Mohammad Alghamdi, a retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to death for his tweets criticizing the country's leadership to his handful of followers
#MohammadAlghamdi #SaudiArabia #MohammedBinSalman #MBS #socialmedia #freespeech #twitter #elon #musk #elonmusk #elno #spacekaren
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196776390/saudi-arabia-man-death-sentence-tweets
'As a young psychologist, this chills me to my bones. Apparently is possible to reach the stratosphere of scientific achievement, to publish over and over again in “high impact” journals, to rack up tens of thousands of citations, and for none of it to matter.'
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-for-psychologys-loss
'Here, we reveal that gut commensal bacteria can translocate directly to the brain when mice are fed an altered diet that causes dysbiosis and intestinal permeability, and that this also occurs without diet alteration in distinct murine models of neurological disease. The bacteria were not found in other systemic sites or the blood, but were detected in the vagus nerve.'
#Preprint
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The oldest printed book in the Huntington Library isn’t its Gutenberg Bible, but a Chinese Buddhist text nearly four centuries older. https://huntington.org/videos-and-recorded-programs/thousand-years-books-printed-1085
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Dr Ruth Crystal September 2, 2023 COVID Newsletter
Money available to improve ventilation and filtration in schools
"#Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open. https://buff.ly/3szTGGh
The average American school building is about 50 years old. The #HVAC systems need to be replaced at least 20%. There are federal funds available, but many are not aware"
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Researchers construct first global map of #insect #mitochondrial #genetic #diversity.
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-global-insect-mitochondrial-genetic-diversity.html
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New:
“Viral Origins of #ChronicFatigueSyndrome May Be Hiding in Plain Sight”
https://www.sciencealert.com/viral-origins-of-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-may-be-hiding-in-plain-sight
On recent paper by @DrMaureenHanson:
The viral origin of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article%3Fid=10.1371/journal.ppat.1011523
@mecfs #MEcfs #CFS #MyalgicE #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #PwME #enterovirus
#enteroviruses
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'The Webb data, though, revealed that some very large galaxies formed really fast, in too short a time, at least according to the standard model. This was no minor discrepancy. The finding is akin to parents and their children appearing in a story when the grandparents are still children themselves.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/02/opinion/cosmology-crisis-webb-telescope.html
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'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/
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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.
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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'
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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
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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
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
