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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@richardsever The need for new forms of research credit/assessment beyond the journal article are a frequent topic in our discussions on the EMBO Podcast, most recently in the episode with Pavel Tomancak
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"Educating doctors is a long and expensive process, but not every country can reward its graduates equally. Health spending per capita varies drastically in EU countries, from €816 per year in Romania to more than €4,000 in Luxembourg, Germany and other Western European countries. And so doctors and nurses follow the money."
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Spotted in Chiado, a genre I was not familiar with: the protest azulejo.
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Once more unto the breach, Richard @richardsever
"Addiction to journal brand and Impact Factor has led us to conflate quality, impact, and trust in research. We now have the opportunity to adopt a new approach with better trust signals, in which judgments of an article’s merits are not made at a single point in time"
#ScientificPublishing #SciComm #Preprints
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002234
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This paper seems to have now come out in NEJM this week.
Ceftobiprole for MSSA & MRSA bacteraemia
#AMR #microbiology #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon #medicine
"The first referee systems that we would recognize as such were set in place by English scientific societies in the early nineteenth century. But these referees were never intended to play the part of supreme scientific gatekeepers. That notion emerged in around 1900 (see 'Past notes'). It was exactly then that some began to wonder whether referee systems might be fundamentally flawed. In this sense, peer review has always been broken."
"Highlighting the role of repeated immune responses, our results confirm the role of REL in the germinal center reaction and provide evidence supporting the fact that genetic deregulation of c-Rel expression is most likely a primary event in the aggressive transformation of GC B-cells."
#Preprint #GerminalCenter #Immunology
"But for all that progress, a disparity is emerging: Women between the ages of 35 and 54 are being diagnosed with lung cancer at higher rates than men in that same age group, according to a report published Thursday by researchers at the American Cancer Society. The disparity is small — one or two more cases among every 100,000 women in that age range than among men — but it is significant enough that researchers want to know more."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/well/live/lung-cancer-women-screening.html
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@cyrilpedia At our university, in our state, in the U.S., committees are strictly forbidden to rank applicants on anything beyond what is specified in the job ad. I think this has become standard practice. Knowing this may be critical to developing your application materials. It's certainly maddening to the committee to have to dig for this information.
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#IDMastodon #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovidKids It’s time to #MaskUp😷 for your kids & #GetBoosted @WHO “What is wrong with me. Is it definitely #longCOVID?” Children face a frustrating lack of answers about LC . The symptoms of LC in children
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/05-10-2023-what-is-wrong-with-me---children-face-a-frustrating-lack-of-answers-about-long-covid
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There's a line in Michael Herr's "dispatches" about how every Vietnamese person killed by the Americans was assumed (by the Americans) to be a member of the Viet Cong. It goes something like "by the time the statistics had reached command, a dead old woman had become a nameless, ageless, genderless insurgent."
This is how first world nations fight asymmetric wars. The propaganda exists at every level, throughout the entire system.
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New in Public Notice: North Carolina has become the latest cautionary tale of Republicans using control of the legislature and judiciary to make themselves so powerful that it doesn’t matter when they lose elections👇 https://www.publicnotice.co/p/north-carolina-gop-power-grab-roy-cooper
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Nice study on polar giant viruses!
Genomic adaptation of giant viruses in polar oceans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41910-6
#viruses #GiantViruses #virology #oceanography #marine #ocean #polar
Transparent peer review, steampunk version:
"In the early nineteenth century, French journals such as the Annals de Chimie sometimes included essays evaluating recent papers released by the Academie des Sciences. In 1831, inspired by those French essays, the English polymath William Whewell (1794–1866) made a proposal to his fellow members of the Royal Society of London: that papers submitted to the Philosophical Transactions should be sent to two Fellows, who would then write a report about the paper. The signed report would be published in the Royal Society’s new journal, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."
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Slate let me write about Sam Alito. Who was I to say no? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/samuel-alito-wants-racial-gerrymander-south-carolina.html
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Great to hear that so many biologists are continuing to join biologists.social. See this nice update from @preLights
https://prelights.biologists.com/news/biorxiv-joins-our-mastodon-server-biologists-social/
I like it here. As a controlled experiment* I posted our most recent preprint on here and also on twitter. We got lots more 'empty' engagment (likes and retweets) on there, but all the meaningful engagement and discussion was on here.
*retrospectively branded as an experiment but actually just a shameful lapse in willpower
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Biostatistician, GPM
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/biostatistician-gpm/?feed_id=61886
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Memphis #UnitedStatesUS #Bioinformatician #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/biostatistician-gpm/?feed_id=61886
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Absolutely outstanding piece from @micefearboggis on the strange year when the climate broke ...
A multitude of possibly unsatisfying answers
https://wp.me/p4K9DA-1iz
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
