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
The first sentence of Paul Theroux's "The Pillars of Hercules" is still one of my favorites
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@joan_friedman @Teri_Kanefield
France isn't the only country with anti-democracy billionaires allied with foreign despots and malign petrostates.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/business/bernard-arnault-investigation-russian-businessman/index.html
Trump donor Harold Hamm resents efforts to act on climate because it hinders his abilities to make the planet uninhabitable for human life.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2023/09/29/billionaire-harold-hamm-on-how-biden-is-holding-american-energy-hostage/?sh=55230dde29ce
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'Records that might have thrown a crucial light on key decisions taken by the UK government were mysteriously destroyed during the 1980s and 1990s when legal developments in other countries seem to have raised fears in Whitehall that officials might be found liable.'
https://www.ft.com/content/cd374a7f-69c3-466b-9dec-e106213b444c
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Job at EMBL-EBI
"As Human Genomics Team Leader, you will be responsible for a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 individuals, which includes software developers, bioinformaticians and data curators."
#sciencejobs #bioinformatics
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TIL that "galapago" means tortoise. Thus, "galapagos tortoise" translates to "tortoise tortoise". The islands were named after the tortoises and afterwards, these tortoises were named after the islands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16vdo57/til_that_galapago_means_tortoise_thus_galapagos/
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Convergent Evolution in a Murine Intestinal Parasite Rapidly Created the TGM Family of Molecular Mimics to Suppress the Host Immune Response https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad158 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
"The insecticides used since the 1970s, to spray in houses and on bed nets to protect sleeping children, have become far less effective; mosquitoes have evolved to survive them. After declining to a historic low in 2015, malaria cases and deaths are rising."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/health/mosquitoes-malaria-disease-climate-change.html
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Let's try this again...
Thread on article: “The strain on scientific publishing” - out now.
Tagging @TheConversationUK @OverlyHonestEditor @GaltierNicolas @DORAssessment @ElisabethBik @brembs @mattjhodgkinson @danielbolnick @deevybee
Boosts much appreciated!
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First, things first: growth in articles published each year has outpaced the scientists doing the publishing. With #PublishOrPerish, we all face an ever-increasing workload (writing, reviewing, editing…). It’s been rough.
Strain itself is neutral: this could be a welcome change! Are we becoming more efficient? Are we combatting biases (academic racism, positive result bias)?
If that’s all it were, the solution to strain would be to build a better infrastructure.
But… well… it’s not. 2/n
"Our offices were just a short walk apart, and after meeting to discuss our suspicions, we began what has so far been a nearly 20-year collaboration to determine if phenylephrine was effective at the dosage available to consumers over the counter, and later, when we discovered it wasn’t, to petition the Food and Drug Administration to remove it from shelves."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion/cold-medicine-fda.html
"What’s remarkable about Engoron’s finding that Trump committed large-scale fraud (it’s now a ruling, not a mere accusation) is what it says about the man who became president and the voters who supported him."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/opinion/donald-trump-fraud-case.html
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👨🏽🎓New PhD Opportunity👩🏿🎓!
My new Epidemiology & Virus Evolution (EVE) group at @swisstph 🇨🇭 is looking for a PhD student in the evolution and phylogenetics of respiratory viruses 🦠🌳.
Interested? See here for more details & to apply!
https://jobs.swisstph.ch/Vacancies/927/Description/2
Please share! 😁
#academia #academic #academicjobs #researchjobs #phdpositions #phd
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B/Yamagata #flu viruses disappeared in March 2020, seemingly driven into extinction by factors related to the Covid-19 pandemic. An expert panel that advises WHO on flu shot composition said today it's time to take the B/Yam component out of flu shots. https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/29/who-recommends-dropping-component-of-many-flu-vaccines/
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#tenuretrack job posting: Assistant Professor in #ClimateChange & #biodiversity in the Department of Ecology & Evolution a Stony Brook University, New York. Application review starts Oct. 23 but you can apply through Nov. 6. I love working in this dep't. Happy to answer any questions I can. Looking forward to a new colleague! Please apply!
@ecoevojobs #paleontology #ecology #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology
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"In 2017, almost a hundred years after insulin was ‘defensively’ patented for the express purpose of preventing unethical profiteering, Alec Smith was found dead in his Minneapolis home at only 26 years old. He had been diagnosed with T1DM two years previously, but seemed to have adapted well to the demands of insulin treatment. What had gone wrong? Smith’s great misfortune was that he had been lucky enough to be born a citizen of Earth’s wealthiest nation."
"In 2017, almost a hundred years after insulin was ‘defensively’ patented for the express purpose of preventing unethical profiteering, Alec Smith was found dead in his Minneapolis home at only 26 years old. He had been diagnosed with T1DM two years previously, but seemed to have adapted well to the demands of insulin treatment. What had gone wrong? Smith’s great misfortune was that he had been lucky enough to be born a citizen of Earth’s wealthiest nation."
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I've been two weeks on awesome vacation, and now back to work and reminding about
October 1 deadline for **fully funded postdoc and doctoral student positions in many topics including Bayesian modeling, probabilistic programming and workflows** with me and other profs in Aalto Uni. and Uni. of Helsinki, funded by Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
@FCAI
See more topics, how to apply, and job details like salary at fcai.fi/we-are-hiring
The electron microscope is a prop, the Publico feature is on the future of PhD programs, a discussion the IGC hosted during the celebration of 30 years of the international program Antonio Coutinho created for the Gulbenkian in 1993.
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
