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
I'm holding out for a heron 'til the end of the night. Fruit bowl by @hunchbacksociety
cc @madparreira.bsky.social
#Ceramics #Pottery #Handmade #ArtGallery #Ceramic #art #artmastodon
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Lots of covid news right now:
–Huge US surge: covid ER visits highest in infants, older adults, kids; Northeast near worst Omicron levels
–Japan study warns of covid ‘heart failure pandemic’
–JetBlue tells infected passenger to fly
–Bernie Sanders has covid
More: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-95419817
#Covid #LongCovid #Covidisntover #BernieSanders #CDC #JetBlue #NHS #MaskUp #CovidChristmas #CorsiRosenthalBox
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During the next three decades, some risky growth regions — like Miami — could pass points where they become climate abandonment zones, as sea levels increase and the threat of flooding goes up as well, data suggests. https://t.co/SrWrB9AKYP
"Inflammasome-mediated caspase-1 activation facilitates innate immune control of Plasmodium in the liver, thereby limiting the incidence and severity of clinical malaria. However, caspase-1 processing occurs incompletely in both mouse and human hepatocytes and precludes the generation of mature IL-1β or IL-18, unlike in other cells. Why this is so or how it impacts Plasmodium control in the liver has remained unknown."
#Malaria #inflammasome
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Online now! Bivalent inhibitors of the BTB E3 ligase KEAP1 enable instant NRF2 activation to suppress acute inflammatory response https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/fulltext/S2451-9456(23)00435-X?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #chembiol
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There is an interesting article on the correspondence between Einstein and Levi-Civita:
Einstein the Stubborn: Correspondence between Einstein and Levi-Civita
By Galina Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4305
via @arXivLabs
"We studied the adipose tissue transcriptome in men and women with normal glucose tolerance or type 2 diabetes following an acute exercise bout, revealing substantial exercise- and time-dependent changes, with sustained increase in inflammatory genes in type 2 diabetes"
#Immunology #Metabolism
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(23)00565-7
'Also in The Atlantic, Derek Thompson needled erroneous recession soothsayers: “Economic models of the future are perhaps best understood as astrology faintly decorated with calculus equations.”'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/opinion/2023-journalism-writing-sentences.html
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"The bottom line is that the abrupt rise in digital interaction following the arrival of the pandemic made #knowledgework more tedious and exhausting, helping to fuel the waves of disruption that have followed.
We need to get serious about reducing digital communication—not just small tweaks to corporate norms but significant reductions, driven by major policy changes."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/an-exhausting-year-in-and-out-of-the-office
'In The Washington Post, Alexandra Petri mined that material by mimicking the famous opening line of “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American billionaire, in possession of sufficient fortune, must be in want of a Supreme Court justice.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/opinion/2023-journalism-writing-sentences.html
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Feedback-based motor control can guide #plasticity and drive rapid #learning –#preprint by Feulner et al. (2022)
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Say you become aware of or read articles on a set of computational #neuroscience approaches or ideas that might make a nice match with your experimental approaches and ideas. A collaboration might be in order. Does one contact the first author (who may be establishing their independent group) or the lab head first or both at once or what? What's the collegially appropriate path to initiating the conversation that leads to new collaborative work?
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: A year in illustration, 2023 edition; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/21/collages-r-us/
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"De facto, apelidos sonantes persistem em vários países ao longo de séculos entre os mais ricos e escolarizados, resistindo às rupturas de sistemas políticos, económicos e sociais. Abundam os dados que mostram que as pessoas oriundas de meios mais favorecidos têm muito maior probabilidade de vir a ter melhores oportunidades e rendimentos."
https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/29/ciencia/ensaio/nao-ha-meritocracia-sorte-conta-2073261
"The complex circuitry of the brain above was captured by a new M.R.I. scanner developed at the University of California, Berkeley.
The machine has a resolution 10 times better than its precursors’ and could help researchers examine the processes underlying illnesses like schizophrenia and autism.
An T. Vu, UCSF; David Feinberg and Alex Beckett, UC Berkeley and Advanced MRI Technologies"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/health/neuroscience-brain-images.html
"Days later, the government began to unravel its zero-Covid policy, which fully ended on January 8. The archives of the pandemic also ground to a halt; a vast apparatus that had in 2020 been created to record every individual case was suddenly disassembled. The change was so sudden, someone told me, that “it made us feel like we were living in a dream”. The problem with dreams is they tend to make even less sense when you write them down."
https://www.ft.com/content/930318b8-65f3-4c66-9dd6-44249adea584
"Allegations by Wright, a former assistant director of MI5 who retired to Tasmania, included that the security agency had bugged embassies, that a small group of agents had plotted against the prime minister Harold Wilson, and that Sir Roger Hollis, the director general of MI5 from 1956-65, had been a Soviet mole."
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Pharmacogenetic Variation in Neanderthals and Denisovans and Implications for Human Health and Response to Medications https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad222 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper
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Hi Nikki Haley.
Via Wes Lowery:
fearing Lincoln’s election would lead to the national abolition of slavery (a hyperbolic, reactionary response), a series of southern states seceded from the union and formed an avowedly white supremacist confederacy of slave states. that was the cause of the civil war.
#NikkiHaley #racism #GOPfascism #2024election
PS: Stop telling me how much better Haley is than Trump. She’s not. Every single GOP Fascist Party candidate would take us straight to hell.
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
