Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

Research Technician

Kent State University

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#ScienceJobs #hiring #research
Kent, Ohio #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
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In my latest column for New Scientist, I talk about the emerging field of trust and safety, and why it's crucial to the future of our digital public sphere ... and yet is consistently overlooked or undervalued. You can read the article for free -- you just need to sign up for a free account. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2403999-trust-and-safety-the-most-important-tech-job-youve-never-heard-of/

'Now with the new telomere2telomere long read enabled references I figured it would be fun to try asking a similar question. What’s the utility of long reads?3 I.e. how much more of the genome to long reads let us address.'

https://aseq.substack.com/p/the-utility-of-long-reads?r=f3eze&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

'The number of desaparecidos in Argentina at that stage has been calculated at 1,022. In October, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Kissinger told Guzzetti, "the quicker you succeed the better." The steep and rapid climb into the tens of thousands was incited.'

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2004/12/kissinger-declassified

Amanhã, #ccb das 10 às 18h! ✨🎄
Foto do @cyrilpedia 🥰
#ahistoriamaispequenadomundo #liaferreira #adamadopirete #ccbelém

At MASP (São Paulo).

"If this sprawling exhibition of 170 artists is an attempt to correct that, bringing Indigenous production into the canon, then it is certainly ambitious in its geographical spread."

https://www.ft.com/content/ac6f9f47-cc22-4859-85e4-1c192be353bf

"Esta história faz parte de uma lógica que ajudou a alimentar a utilização em massa do carro, com um novo máximo nos Censos de 2021, tendo triplicado em relação a 1991. Isso aconteceu à custa do transporte público e do andar a pé e é a tendência inversa ao que deve acontecer, quando as metas estão hoje viradas para a redução de emissões de gases com efeito de estufa."

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/01/local/reportagem/portugal-pais-onde-nao-facil-largar-carro-2072167

'Additionally, there are reports that HIV-2 infection can reduce HIV-1-associated pathogenesis in dual-infected patients, and in cell culture. However, the mechanisms underlying these protective effects are not well understood. To decipher these mechanisms, we performed dual infections with HIV-1 and HIV-2 in cell culture.'

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01870-22?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

"In line with the WHO's strategy to stop the spread of this invasive species by enhancing surveillance and control measures in Africa, we incorporated morphological and molecular surveillance of An. stephensi into routine entomological surveillance of malaria vectors in the city of Accra, Ghana. Here, we report on the first detection of An. stephensi in Ghana."

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.01.569589v1

"There’s just one problem: It’s not clear how effective nudges really are. One recent analysis of a large study of nudging interventions found that, after accounting for the fact that positive results are more likely to get published, the evidence that nudges change the decisions people make in their everyday lives is not particularly strong."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opinion/human-behavior-nudge.html

“Ele tentou-nos levar para um golpe de Estado contrário, os ultras defendiam a continuação da guerra, pressionavam através do Presidente da República, Américo Thomaz, para o regime endurecer e, quando se aperceberam das nossas movimentações, pensam usar o movimento”, sintetiza Vasco Lourenço. De forma telegráfica: Kaúlza de Arriaga tentou apanhar boleia dos capitães.'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/02/politica/noticia/militares-magusto-obidos-preferiram-costa-gomes-spinola-2071957

You didn't get all the big calls right!

The vaccine roll out was handled by the #NHS not you!

It has been claimed that you were prepared to let people die because you were bored of the pandemic!

You couldn't be arsed to attend meetings because you were writing a book (where is it by the way?)

NO 10 partied while we all followed the rules!

F**k Off with your apologies!

BBC News - Boris Johnson to apologise to Covid Inquiry but say he got big calls right
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67597455

Gute Nacht!

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Single-Molecule Biophysics

KIng's College London

ERC-funded project on single-molecule biophysics of force-sensing proteins at King's College London

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#iNaturalist year-in-review - lots of insects!
https://www.inaturalist.org/stats/2023/friesen5000

Martyn Turner on #HenryKissenger #Cop28 #cartoon - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

"This review highlights recent advances in our understanding of how particulate adjuvants, especially polymer-based particulates, modulate immune responses and how this can be used as a guide for improved adjuvant design."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eji.202350512