Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Anecdotally, from the clinics we know that some people come back and say, “I feel better” or “I feel I improved.” If you dig a little bit deeper, they did not get back to their baseline; they adjusted their baseline ... Recovery, unfortunately — for fatigue and dysautonomia and all that — is actually quite rare'

#LongCovid

https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/20/do-long-covid-odds-increase-with-second-infection/

Big day for plant neuroscience

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002303

'El teniente coronel brasileño Mauro Cid, que durante cuatro años fue secretario particular de Jair Bolsonaro, ha declarado a la policía que, tras la derrota electoral, el aún presidente se reunió con la cúpula militar para consultarles sobre un posible golpe de Estado'

https://elpais.com/internacional/2023-09-21/el-secretario-de-bolsonaro-le-acusa-de-consultar-a-la-cupula-militar-sobre-un-golpe-tras-perder-las-elecciones.html

'Their personalities were fundamentally unalike, in ways that could scratch like sandpaper. The Irish critic George Moore, who hung out with them in Paris, described them thus: “Manet loud, declaratory, and eager for medals and decorations; Degas sharp, deep, more profound, scornfully sarcastic.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/arts/design/manet-degas-met-museum.html

'Because the scRNA-seq dataset had been obtained using CITE-seq, a method that keeps track of cell-surface markers by using oligonucleotide-tagged antibodies, we were able to identify surface markers for human exTreg cells. We found that CD56 and CD16 (normally expressed by natural killer cells) identify human exTreg cells.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01629-4

Gut microbial carbohydrate metabolism contributes to insulin resistance https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06466-x

Interesting differences in SCFAs, too, with implications for obsession (of some) with increasing presence of these in the human gut.

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win

Court voted against agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/brazil-supreme-court-indigenous-land-rights-win?CMP=share_btn_tw

Corrupt public officials like #ClarenceThomas do double damage to the citizens they're entrusted to serve.

Not only do they subvert the functioning of democracy by allowing uberwealthy elites to tip the scales of justice in their own favor, they also destroy public confidence in democracy itself, opening the door for more corruption, and ultimately, authoritarianism.

For shame. A functional society would not stand for this.

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus

Much like why there's no bus route on Park Ave, "sustainability" is all platitudes from the rich and never action in their neighborhood.

It now looks like, per another brilliant report by ProPublica, that our dear Justice Clarence Thomas also participated in Koch Network donor events. Is there no end to his corruption and influence peddling? Don’t answer that, I know the answer.

V2 of my preprint with PhD student Kim Verity is now online: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.17.549219v2

tldr: If you want to assess the shape (e.g. balance, diversity) of a rooted tree then generally you're better off using our new indices than Sackin's index, phylogenetic entropy, etc.

The article is long mainly because we provide lots of examples. I plan soon to write a shorter #mathonco blog post explaining why these indices are better than prior approaches. Meanwhile, here's a poster.

Out @PLOSBiology! Inhibitory signals from turning neurons gate the worm's response to mechanosensory stimuli! Beautiful work by Sandeep Kumar and co-authors Anuj Sharma, Andrew Tran & Mochi Liu https://plos.io/455hWOh

Senior Researcher in Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/senior-researcher-in-flow-cytometry-and-cell-sorting-core/?feed_id=59556

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Memphis #UnitedStatesUS #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/senior-researcher-in-flow-cytometry-and-cell-sorting-core/?feed_id=59556

This “thought-provoking” paper exploits new #CryoET tools to examine the state of chromatin in situ, finding that nucleosomes in baker’s yeast cells are different from those in test tubes. https://elifesciences.org/articles/87672?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic