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
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▶ Biden Admin Bans Company From Selling Data On Reproduction Health Care Visits
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A novel classification framework for genome-wide association study of whole brain MRI images using deep learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.11.575251v1?med=mas
Surprise du jour
"A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or scientific racists."
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Delineation of signaling routes that underlie differences in macrophage phenotypic states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.12.574349v1?med=mas
'Reports of plagiarism against the academic Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, are “accurate and well documented”, the chief executive of Business Insider has told staff.'
https://www.ft.com/content/9bc0cfac-d59d-414f-aaf8-743f6d7b7c7a
Ouch
"Pachelbel’s Canon languished in obscurity for a couple of centuries before being rediscovered in the 1950s Baroque revival in which Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons was dusted off. By the 1980s, it was being embraced by corporate telephone hold systems around the world, containing customer frustration in a context of deeper time and more disciplined emotional expression."
"We show that mice lacking adaptive immune cells (rag−/− mice) do not develop clinical signs or weight loss from SARS-CoV-2 MA10 infection, whereas fully immunocompetent wild-type (WT) mice develop disease. While rag−/− mice had little to no lung pathology, virus levels were lower than WT mice early after infection, but not significantly decreased within 2 weeks of infection."
#Immunology #Virology #sarscov2
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Done writing the book.
(Deep inhale).
~90K words. A few years of work. A transformative journey that did not end at all as I thought when I started. I'm grateful to have done it - what a privilege. A much bigger conceptual project than anything I've done up to this point.
I got to think intensely for a better part of a few years (in parallel to running a lab and teaching as a professor). Somehow there was not time for that before. I'm not exactly sure where I found it; I just did.
There will be many revisions going forward. And it won't hit the shelves anytime soon. But I'm going to pause and celebrate this moment, where every one of the bits are finally in place. I learned so much along the way. Even today, on the last day, I was fascinated, and I'm grateful. (That said, I'm also a bit tired).
What's the book about? A slice of the spirit behind it is captured here: https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/is-the-brain-uncontrollable-like-the-weather/
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NHS medicines shortage putting lives at risk, pharmacists warn
'He points out that one result of the federal government’s racist redlining policies in the early decades of the twentieth century was systematic underinvestment in Black communities and the creation of what came to be called “blighted” neighborhoods. And then in the postwar years, federal, state, and city governments used highway policy in turn to eradicate those neighborhoods: “If Black neighborhoods were nails, freeways were a convenient hammer…. General Motors, for one, proposed using freeways to displace ‘undesirable slum areas.’”
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/toward-a-land-of-buses-and-bikes-crossings-ben-goldfarb/
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#Consciousness question from someone who read #philosophy stuff on this years ago but nothing from #neuroscience. Is it generally understood to be a memory phenomenon? It seems logically that it must be (see below), but that's not the way the philosophy stuff I have read about it discussed it.
My argument is that the only thing we could be talking about if we're talking consciousness is things that have made their way into a specific memory subsystem (the ones that are accessible to our language systems), otherwise we wouldn't be able to talk about it. Similarly, anything that has made its way into that memory subsystem would also be something we were conscious of. In other words, consciousness is just the set of things that go into that subsystem.
So is consciousness just the study of some particular memory subsystem and the way it interacts with other systems like language? And if we don't understand how memory works, can we understand anything about consciousness?
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“The world we’re going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. And the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke. It’s all going to happen. Or isn’t it?”
George Orwell, 1939
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Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://www.openculture.com/2022/02/hannah-arendt-explains-how-propaganda-uses-lies.html
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We are hiring and have a 4-year PhD position available at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen. Topic: Functional characterization of ctenophore neurons. Reposts are highly appreciated!
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Fox candle holder, glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety #art #ceramics #stoneware #handmade #artgallery #stoneware #artmastodon
@madparreira @jorgenesbitt
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Axel Springer, Business Insider Stand By Plagiarism Coverage On Bill Ackman's Wife: 'The Stories Are Accurate and the Facts Well Documented'
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A principal who was critically wounded in the Jan. 4 shootings at his high school in Iowa has died. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2024/01/14/dan-marburger-wounded-perry-high-principal-dies-early-sunday/72224750007/
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So.
None of you thought it *might* be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim??? I just had to find all this out on my own?
And, (apparently, & no one thought to bring this up either🙄) fern plants are only one form... they have this 'other form' (tiny, ephemeral, difficult to find in the wild) alternates generations-- Fern spores don't grow into ferns! (WHAT) they grow into 'gemetophytes' (WHAT) THEN you get a fern.
Feel like I've uncovered a massive scandal.
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"This review provides an overview of how coronaviruses control viral and host translation during different stages of infection and compares these strategies to those of other RNA viruses. We focus on how Nsp1 from β-CoV hijacks the translation machinery and describe viral RNA features that promote viral evasion and programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF) in infected cells. Furthermore, we discuss other unique features of viral RNA and various stress response mechanisms triggered by coronaviral infection."
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44318-023-00019-8
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
