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
"For the AfD, whose leaders have made openly antisemitic statements and endorsed the revival of Nazi-era nationalist language, the spectre of antisemitism is a perfect, cynically wielded political instrument, both a ticket to the political mainstream and a weapon that can be used against Muslim immigrants."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/in-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust
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Important new report on the long-term risk of Long Covid vs flu after hospitalization
—50% post-Covid higher death rate
—Worse outcomes for all organ systems and disability except lung
https://thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(23)00684-9/fulltext
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TopoDiff: Improving Protein Backbone Generation with Topology-aware Latent Encoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.13.571602v1.full.pdf+html
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#proteomics #prot-preprint
"Dr. Cohen is taking over an agency that is in transition. Her predecessor, Dr. Walensky, who began serving at the start of the Biden administration and stepped down in June, commissioned a review of the C.D.C. that identified serious weaknesses in areas ranging from testing to data collection to communications. She then initiated an overhaul of the agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/politics/mandy-cohen-cdc-director.html
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"SARS-CoV-2 circulates continuously in the human population, but many transmission chains are self-limiting, while rarer superspreading events account for a substantial fraction of the virus’s total transmission. Heterogeneity in the respiratory viral loads is high and some infected humans release tens to thousands of SARS-CoV-2 virions/min [38, 39]. Our findings recapitulate this in an animal model and provide further insights into mechanisms underlying successful transmission events."
Shane MacGowan & Sinead O'Connor
Thiago Carvalho
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Gaza City, une journée à la plage
Fatima Shbair / AP / Guardian, Palestinians on the beach in Gaza City
#photography
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Netflix goes back to spending money at the nazi bar. https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-resumes-advertising-x-elon-musk-controversy/
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Scientists are providing extensive #genomic data on 232 #species of previously little-studied organisms.
They are tiny, enormously diverse, and widespread in the #soil: soil #invertebrates such as springtails, horn mites, millipedes and nematodes.
These #animals, which are often only visible under a microscope, fulfill important tasks in the soil #ecosystem.
#biology #ecology #biodiversity
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-comprehensive-genome-soil-invertebrates-insights.html
Paper by Collins et al. (2023): https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05621-4
"A contact sheet arrangement of black and white photographs by the author W.G. Sebald from a book collecting the photographic materials he used. Credit: via MIT Press and Boiler House Press"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/arts/design/best-art-books-of-2023.html
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'Even as the wider US stock market approaches a record high, the S&P biotechnology index remains more than 50 per cent below its early 2021 peak.
However, the sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of a recent shift in interest rate expectations, bouncing more than 25 per cent since the start of November. A 5 per cent gain on Wednesday pushed it into positive territory for the year after declines of more than 20 per cent in 2021 and 2022.'
https://www.ft.com/content/f2c97f94-3c88-446b-a05b-2eed14843435
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Worm tools:
"A bipartite cGAL-UAS system has been previously developed to study tissue- or cell-specific functions in C. elegans. Here, we report a toolkit of new cGAL drivers that can facilitate the analysis of a vast majority of the 60 sensory neurons in C. elegans hermaphrodites."
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Wolfgang Baumeister of #CryoEM fame delivered the John Kendrew Lecture 2023 at the #MRCLMB this past October. The recording of his talk is now online:
"Cryo-electron tomography or the power of seeing the whole picture"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vrKLnLXebY
With an introduction from @cjrlab
The chicken came first. Prato falante.
Glazed #stoneware by @hunchbacksociety
#art #ceramics #plate #pottery #artgallery #handmade #artmastodon
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"Homo sapiens is a remarkably outbred and mobile species and one in which phenotypic outliers tend to present themselves to doctors. If a doctor retains the eye of a natural historian and maintains their intellectual curiosity, much can be learned from the deeper exploration of small numbers (or even individual patients) with what appear to be unusual manifestations of disease. "
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There we go: autocrat gets €10bn, reluctantly agrees to negotiations that will take years, and immediately re-imposes his veto for aid to Ukraine.
Maybe an extra €10bn before the next #EUCO?
#Orban #Hungary
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/world/europe/eu-ukraine-hungary-aid.html
"It is estimated that 30% of all eukaryotic proteins contain disordered regions of 50 or more consecutive amino acids, which can be expected to be of poor quality in 3D structure prediction. These regions would be amenable to sequence search with BLAST, while they would not be suitable for a direct structural search. "
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
