Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"I also want to inspire young people to recognize the importance and wonder of #immunology, and to encourage early career researchers to be resilient when things don’t go to plan."

https://www.embo.org/people/delivering-the-right-message/

Staff/faculty positions at SBME, UBC in Pluripotent Stem Cell, Lung Differe

The University of British Columbia

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-university-of-british-columbia-27778-staff-faculty-positions-at-sbme-ubc-in-pluripotent-stem-cell-lung-differe/?feed_id=62991

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research ...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-university-of-british-columbia-27778-staff-faculty-positions-at-sbme-ubc-in-pluripotent-stem-cell-lung-differe/?feed_id=62991

Incredible find in an island that holds so many amazing preserved historic relics. Love Orkney and will definitely check the latest excavations on my next visit

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/21/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tomb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"Almost immediately after the paper’s publication, two anonymous commenters on PubPeer, a forum for discussing peer-reviewed articles, pointed out repeated numerical values in the spreadsheets from a supplementary file included with the article."
#Neuroscience #ResearchIntegrity

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/nobel-laureates-study-earns-expression-of-concern-over-data-integrity-issues/

"In this study, we introduce a database-integrated genome screening (DIGS) approach to investigating the dark genome in silico, focusing on endogenous viral elements found within vertebrate genomes."
#Preprint #Genomics

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.17.562709v1

"Un prestigioso investigador español de la enfermedad de Creutzfeldt-Jakob murió el año pasado tras experimentar síntomas compatibles con esta dolencia letal, según ha podido saber EL PAÍS por múltiples fuentes de las tres instituciones implicadas."

https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-10-19/abierta-una-investigacion-tras-la-muerte-de-un-cientifico-que-estudiaba-una-enfermedad-letal-transmisible-en-barcelona.html

"The emphasis on early-career women, especially in higher-prestige and STEM departments, has provided a deep, but narrow understanding of gendered retention: Women assistant professors in STEM make up just 15% of all tenure-track and tenured women at PhD-granting institutions in the U.S. (1), and those at higher-prestige institutions comprise an even smaller share"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

"No quiero idealizar el Twitter anterior a Musk. Siempre hubo mucha desinformación y comportamiento antisocial en la plataforma. Hace tiempo que dejé de leer las respuestas de la gente a la que no sigo, en parte porque cualquiera con un gran número de seguidores recibía demasiadas respuestas como para seguirle el ritmo, pero también porque la hostilidad ad hominem de muchos analistas llegaba a ser cansina. Aun así, Twitter, utilizado con cuidado, era muy útil, especialmente cuando se producían acontecimientos importantes."

https://elpais.com/economia/negocios/2023-10-21/sobrevivira-twitter-perdon-x-a-elon-musk.html

Earlier: “Black women stand to be disproportionately impacted by the court’s egregious assault on basic human rights.”

When it comes to infant mortality, a new study shows the results are sadly predicable—outcomes worsen in state's with #abortion restrictions. https://www.texasobserver.org/infant-mortality-abortion-restriction-states/

#racism #health #healthcare #children #RoeVWade #Texas #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights #ReproductiveJustice

We Must Not Kill Gazan Children to Try to Protect Israel’s Children https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestine-children.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Find the subgroup of microsatellite-stable #colorectalcancer patients with a POLE/POLD mutation: there is a good chance theses #cancer respond to #immunotherapy , as nicely discussed by Chiara Cremolini and Guillem Arguiles Martinez at #ESMO23 in Madrid
#Oncology #PrecisionMedicines #chemotherapy #tumor #medicaloncology

#taxtherich #antiracism

i.e. give his wife another cheeky bonus before he gets the sack. #BinDayIsComing

🌱Monitoring plant growth patterns is crucial for understanding drought episodes and their consequences🌍🌡️
This week's Observer explores how
https://nitter.cz/CopernicusLand
HR-VPP is used to study the impact of heatwaves — invaluable data for
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23climate
adaptation efforts
⬇️Read more ⬇️

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CopernicusEU/status/1715718354902593987#m

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Postdoctoral Scientist In Epigenetics & Neuroscience

UT Southwestern

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/ut-southwestern-27778-postdoctoral-scientist-in-epigenetics-neuroscience-2/?feed_id=62941

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Dallas #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/ut-southwestern-27778-postdoctoral-scientist-in-epigenetics-neuroscience-2/?feed_id=62941

Scientists develop model to predict #endocrine #disruption by environmental #contaminants in #seals.

#estrogen #bsERα #bsERβ #ecotoxicology #Baikal

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-scientists-endocrine-disruption-environmental-contaminants.html

Big effort, this review. All you need to know about Gram negative #bacteria cell membranes and why they can resist killing by certain #antibiotics
#microbiology #bacteriology #AMR
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.01205-23

An owl gliding through a cloud of helium-filled soap bubbles reveals wingtip and tail vortices.

Video credit: Usherwood et al.
Source: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/223/3/jeb214809/223686/High-aerodynamic-lift-from-the-tail-reduces-drag