Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'A study published in 2020, which drew together multiple pieces of research to track the health of almost 50,000 over-65s, showed the incidence rate of new cases of dementia in Europe and North America had dropped 13 per cent per decade over the past 25 years — a decline that was consistent across all the studies.'

https://www.ft.com/content/184f6e81-d9ce-4a14-84f0-5190ea36e798

A new episode of the EMBO podcast is out. I spoke with Hsiao-Han Chang, Gytis Dudas, and Hedvig Tamman about viruses, hosts, spillovers, public health... And also starting a new lab, the challenges of mobility, mentorship, and Die Hard Dracula.

#EMBOPodcast #scicomm #SciencePodcast #Virology #Evolution #Microbiology

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/its-viruses-all-the-way-down-a-conversation-with-hsiao-han-chang-gytis-dudas-and-hedvig-tamman/

“Even people who are really knowledgeable and who have a lot of experience out in the field were surprised to see how fast these forests were going down the drain,” says ecophysiologist and Annual Review of Plant Biology author Henrik Hartmann.

Read more:

🌳 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/DyingTrees_KM
🌳 Knowable en español https://arevie.ws/DyingTrees_KEE
🌳 Annual Review of Plant Biology https://arevie.ws/Deforestation_EG48

#KnowableMagazine
#RevistaKnowable
#ScienceMastodon

Academic rankings: The tide begins to turn https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231024130858697

Great piece by Chris Brink about academia's increasingly critical stance toward university rankings.

Brink discusses the @tweetsunl expert group report on rankings (https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/en_GB/nieuws-detail/nieuwsbericht/915-p-dutch-universities-to-take-different-approach-to-rankings-p.html) and points out that UNL "is the first national association of universities that has moved beyond rhetoric towards action to counteract the well-known concerns about rankings".

New at Media Nation: One year later, calculating the damage that Elon Musk has done to Twitter. https://dankennedy.net/2023/10/30/one-year-later-calculating-the-damage-elon-musk-has-done-to-twitter/

It has been a few years that I have been this excited about work coming from our lab! Our latest preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.16.520755v3

rests on a collaboration with Carsten Duch in Mainz:

https://enb-idn.biologie.uni-mainz.de/prof-dr-carsten-duch/

and describes #neuroscience experiments on a type of #motorlearning in #Drosophila that was first described in 1991:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00194898.pdf

Now, we present which genes are required in which neurons for this type of learning to take place.

1/6

#neurobiology #science #learning #memory

"Yet, resident and circulating Treg had distinct TCR repertoires, and each LN contained exclusive clonal subpopulations of resident Treg. Our results demonstrate that, similar to conventional T cells, Treg can form resident memory-like populations in LNs after adaptive immune responses"
#immunology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.adj5789

"Because of the attritional nature of contemporary peer review (and the level of aggression frequently encountered), successes in both papers and grants are nowadays likely to be met not with celebration, but a sense of exhausted relief. The pleasure is always fleeting."
@TIR_scienceblog

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/10/29/a-riposte-to-the-red-queens/

Postdoctoral Fellow: Molecular Genomics

Imperial College London

Interested in how cells control their DNA replication? So are we! Join us for a postdoc to explore how key regulators affect genome stability.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/imperial-college-london-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-molecular-genomics/?feed_id=63771

#ScienceJobs #hiring #resear...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/imperial-college-london-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-molecular-genomics/?feed_id=63771

This is so cool! There is an annual mass #biodiversity experiment in Danish schools, which this year involved 30,000 kids collecting + examining samples of moss + lichen. Only 5% have been examined so far but they've already discovered 5 species of water bear unknown to science.

Ht @jeppe

https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/111322661213816133

#skolechat #mosstodon #lichenodon

https://www.folkeskolen.dk/hillerod-kommune-naturfag/danske-elever-skriver-naturhistorie-fem-nye-arter-opdaget-i-masseeksperimentet/4739378

The first message between two computers on ARPANET was sent #OTD in 1969. The “LO” of “LOGIN” was successfully transmitted and then one of the systems crashed.

Charles Kline’s IMP Log: “Talked to SRI host to host.”

Image: UCLA Kleinrock Center for Internet Studies

@cyrilpedia

TAPadinhos...

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”

— Hannah Arendt

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZMj-9h8-gXU?si=LWxR-mgPe4HhAkdI

#SilentSunday

Happy to introduce our latest gizmo from the lab: pLSM !
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.31.543173v1

A big shoutout to our brilliant grad student, Yannan Chen, who led this work.

In short, pLSM is a plug-and-play, cost-effective and easy-to-scale light sheet microscopy platform. More than 20 times cheaper, with imaging quality comparable to high-end systems.

https://github.com/tomerlab/pLSM-Control

#LSFM #preprint #biorxiv #lightsheet #dopamine

2004 | From HUPO Proteomics-Timeline https://bit.ly/3m3ZI9P - Ross et al. develop tandem mass tagging (TMT) technique

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#proteomics #prot-other