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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‘Lessons have been forgotten’: is the UK ready for a new Covid variant?
'This is a hard essay to read or listen to, and it’s meant to be. Clearly, it was hard to write; watching Ursula in her 80s read her own words aloud, more than a decade after she wrote them, the emotion is palpable'
https://lithub.com/watch-ursula-k-le-guin-on-her-illegal-abortion-in-1950/
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'You get the picture; it’s bleak. All in all, by the time a child reaches the age of 13, online advertising firms have collected an average of 72 million data points about them.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/kids-online-data-privacy-tracking-apps/675320/
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“‘Impression, Sunrise’ is not a sweet sea landscape but a bomb so powerful” that it smashed classical tradition, says painter Adrian Ghenie, “putting the Greco-Roman canon to rest for good”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9499b736-32b7-4ea9-b728-e805a859907a
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'A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/cat-bohannon-eve.html
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"The BMJ asked the colleges to disclose all payments from industry, campaign groups, or patient associations, including the specific amount received from each donor, but they all refused to do so, other than the Royal College of Anaesthetists."
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'If the NIH does decide to support fewer postdocs but with increased pay, it could change the calculus for many labs across the country. Schwetz acknowledges this, and says that leading a smaller lab will hopefully help PIs to provide a better experience for their team members and to focus on a smaller number of projects. Some scientists are looking forward to that kind of future.'
'A page-turning whistle-stop tour of mammalian development that begins in the Jurassic Era, “Eve” recasts the traditional story of evolutionary biology by placing women at its center.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/books/cat-bohannon-eve.html
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Hyperacute rejection
"One photograph of a pig kidney recovered from a baboon at 10 minutes after transplantation shows a blackened lump that resembles more a disaster in a French kitchen than standard organ rejection."
'One pleasant surprise was a protein shape that had never been seen before. The researchers dubbed it a ‘Beta-flower’ because the structures contain a number of hairpin turns — found in a known protein shape called a Beta-barrel — that resemble petals on a flower.'
“‘Impression, Sunrise’ is not a sweet sea landscape but a bomb so powerful” that it smashed classical tradition, says painter Adrian Ghenie, “putting the Greco-Roman canon to rest for good”.
https://www.ft.com/content/9499b736-32b7-4ea9-b728-e805a859907a
'You get the picture; it’s bleak. All in all, by the time a child reaches the age of 13, online advertising firms have collected an average of 72 million data points about them.'
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/kids-online-data-privacy-tracking-apps/675320/
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6 thought provoking questions posed to @awaisaftab (psychiatrist) and myself (brain researcher) and we hit on so much:
The challenge of escaping reductionism. Theories of consciousness. Are mental disorders brain disorders? Why should anyone care about philosophy? Is epistemic iteration is failing? And what bits of brain research are awaiting their Copernican moment?
With nods to @summerfieldlab, @knutson_brain, @tyrell_turing, @Neurograce, @eikofried
and so many more.
Read it all here (and let's discuss)!
https://awaisaftab.substack.com/p/advancing-neuroscientific-understanding
"Long-term cooking duos on television are rare (where is the successor to Two Fat Ladies?) and perhaps particularly rare is a man and a woman making a meal together without marriage or romantic attachment between them. Child was the most Frenchified American at the time, Pépin the most enthusiastically Americanized Frenchman. “We argued on stage, stealing each other’s mise en place,” he wrote in 2012 in The New York Times."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/coq-au-pepin-art-of-the-chicken/
'Un equipo internacional, en el que participa la neurocientífica española Amaia Arranz, ha introducido 100.000 neuronas humanas en el cerebro de ratones para intentar investigar en vivo qué ocurre durante el alzhéimer. Los autores han observado cómo perecen las células y han logrado evitar esta muerte neuronal con un simple tratamiento oral. Su avance se publica este jueves en la revista Science'
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He’s worked for Shell, he’s backed MORE gas exploration, and now he could be given the keys to climate laws. Join us to stop @WBHoekstra from getting the EU’s top climate job - sign now! #FossilFreePolitics
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Olivia Colman reads a hilarious seventeenth century letter from a wife to her husband - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIrkEsh7Vo
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How early-career researchers can learn to trust negative data: five simple steps
#Science #academia #academicchatter
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UAW Members Are Striking Against Corporate Power -- and Americans Overwhelmingly Back Them
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'I think many troubling aspects of US history are often neglected in the public consciousness. They include the four-day New York City draft riot in 1863, in which white rioters attacked African American workers and their properties; the race riots in Chicago, Illinois, in 1919; and the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, two years later. These are just three examples of events, often catalysed by police inaction, that resulted in the loss of Black lives, livelihoods and homes.'
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
