Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'Strong, durable vaccines are one of the main reasons that several countries have managed to eliminate measles—and why a paramyxovirus called rinderpest, once a major scourge of cattle, is one of the only infectious diseases we’ve ever managed to eradicate.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/paramyxovirus-next-pandemic-flu-covid/675785/

'To eke out gains, private-equity firms have cut nursing staff, slashed services, and even, in at least one case early in the pandemic, made an explicit threat to close an institution unless it received taxpayer money. Many hospitals purchased by private-equity firms have been forced to pay consulting fees to their new overlords for access to their strategic brilliance.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-equity-hospitals-health-care/675779/

Interactions between #bacteriophage & mammalian hosts can facilitate diverse symbioses; @marion_bichet @JeremyJBarr &co show that mammalian cells internalize #phage, using them as a resource to enhance cellular growth & proliferation #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/49bc4Gu

How the neo-Nazi group Moms4Liberty crawled out of the anti-vaxx/anti-mask sewers of Florida. https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/moms-for-liberty-birchers-in-heels

Behold Gustave Doré’s Illustrations for Rabelais’ Grotesque Satirical Masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel

https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/behold-gustave-dores-illustrations-for-rabelais-grotesque-satirical-masterpiece-gargantua-and-pantagruel.html

In case it wasn’t clear what kind of person the new Speaker Mike Johnson is, here is an OpEd he wrote advising that states should “discriminate” against “homosexual conduct” and suggesting they pass laws around “sexual conduct outside marriage.” He is a Christo-Nationalist zealot. Of “The Handmaid’s Tale” variety.

It’s #BlackInMarineScience week! I’m sad to see no mention of this incredible effort here, which features an impressive lineup of events & activities. This is Year 3 of #BIMSWeek. Check out upcoming events at https://www.blackinmarinescience.org/bimsweek.html and head to #BIMSTV to view recordings of past events https://www.youtube.com/blackinmarinescience. If you have not completely abandoned Twitter, check out https://twitter.com/blackinmarsci?lang=en for even more content. Let’s support the incredible #BIMS team!

New #posting! This one suggests that good #mentoring offers an escape to the #RedQueen problem faced by many (most? all?) contemporary group leaders in #academia. Hope you like it! 👇
https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/10/29/a-riposte-to-the-red-queens/

Assistant/Associate Professor, Prostate Cancer

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-assistant-associate-professor-prostate-cancer/?feed_id=63732

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Seattle #UnitedStatesUS #FacultyMember
https://jobrxiv.org/job/fred-hutchinson-cancer-center-27778-assistant-associate-professor-prostate-cancer/?feed_id=63732

Netanyahu's orders are abhorrent, & many are war crimes, he needs to go:

"Testimonies and documents: Palestinians arrested in Jerusalem were severely beaten by police officers and prison guards."

#Netanyahu #IsraelHamasWar

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/2023-10-29/ty-article/.premium/0000018b-7b04-d4a8-a3cf-ffadd5680000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=haaretz

Forbes. Business news you can trust

"The beginning of a global pandemic was a terrible time to get into a fight over words. But she had an inkling that the verbal sparring was a symptom of a bigger problem—that outdated science was underpinning public health policy. She had to get through to them. But first, she had to crack the mystery of why their communication was failing so badly."

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/

"Here, we present our view of how IL-2-based biologicals can boost the antitumor response at a cellular level, and propose that the role of Tregs following such treatments may have been previously overestimated."
#Immunology #immunotherapy

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00195-3