Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Fellow scientists of Mastodon, what's the big question that drives your research?

please boost and reply to compile a big ol' honkin' list of scientific inspiration
#science #scicomm #curiosity

Happy to announce this pub, which is the culmination of last 10 years of my career beginning as far back as my MSc🎓
We find that #antimicrobialpeptides are evolved to control specific #microbiome bacteria. This example is a textbook case of host #immune #evolution being shaped by the microbiome 🦠

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774v2.full

The journey is tough 😅

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

Cellular heterochronicity

"Neurons with longer timescales show higher response selectivity for temporally extended computations such as decision making and reward integration, whereas shorter timescale neurons are implicated in sensory processing."

#Neuro #Neuroscience #preprint

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.01.522410v1?med=mas

Here's a great animation showing the XBB.1.5 variant spreading from New York to all around the world.

We need to stop blaming other countries, and do more to slow the spread of COVID in the US.

Source: https://twitter.com/Mike_Honey_/status/1609831249388113922

#COVID #COVID19

Last week, I discovered a public Amazon S3 bucket belonging to a French bank that contained approximately 16GB of data (122 339 files), including static assets such as CSS, JavaScript, and images, as well as official documents, schema, unverified IBANs and API documentation.

While the bucket was intentionally left open, the bank's security team promptly responded to my report and corrected the issue.

However, there are several potential risks associated with leaving an Amazon S3 bucket open to the public.

By knowing the name of the bucket, I was able to download its entire contents, potentially gain access to sensitive information (naming convention, API endpoints), and even deduce the bank's AWS Account ID (prod?) and AWS Organization ID.

In today's AWS Security landscape, it is generally considered best practice to use a CloudFront distribution to expose static files rather than leaving S3 buckets open to the public.

As a fun side note, I discovered that Google was also indexing the bucket's contents.

Despite the security lapse, the bank was grateful for my report and even rewarded me with a $10 credit as a customer.

Overall, it was a reminder that security is an ongoing effort, and we should all be vigilant in protecting our assets.

#AWS #Security

I've been struggling with this myself, so I thought I'd repeat it for other people that might be dealing with the same thing:

Not every hobby needs to be a project. Not everything needs to be a whole *thing* with a goal and an endpoint. It's okay to not finish something. It's okay to pick up something for a bit, explore it, start making something, and then drop it without making any "progress".

Productivity is capitalist bullshit that doesn't need to infect your free time too. Have some fun

In a depressing start to the new year, XBB.1.5 has become the dominant COVID19 variant in the USA in JUST THREE WEEKS.

The #XBB #variant has mutations that could allow the virus to evade #COVID-19 vaccine boosters and cause more breakthrough infections.

#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver

"It has long been recognized that lymphocyte counts in the human peripheral blood vary according to the time of day (15–19). Both CD4+ and CD8+ T cell counts are rhythmic, with peak levels during the night that decline in the morning and stay low during the day. This is true for naive, effector, and memory CD4+ and for naive CD8+ T cell subsets"

#Immunology #CD8Cells #Tcells #Circadian #Lymphocyte #Review

https://journals.aai.org/jimmunol/article/210/1/12/237594/Regulation-of-Cytotoxic-CD8-T-Cells-by-the

In this week's new podcast episode, Dr. Alex DiFeliceantonio shares exciting stories about how she got started in science, her research on the neuroscience of food choice her favorite scientific travels, life outside the lab and more!

https://peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-alexandra-difeliceantonio/

#neuroscience #physiology #biology #research #brain #science #STEM #podcast #podcasts #scicomm #WomenInSTEM #phd

When #covid started I had the first really good job of my entire life; @60 that was saying summat. I loved what I did, loved my team, and was paid well ; freaking job trifecta! I even had my first IRA and was sober for the first time in 50 years when the fucking #virus took a sledgehammer to my life. I lost everything including my Charger Rt that I adored. I have severe asthma but have had several shots so just to be clear; I am NOT afraid of Covid; I am afraid of PEOPLE. #covidcloister syndrome

Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX was outed as a Ponzi scheme.

Jeff Bezos is touting his philanthropy as Amazon lays off thousands.

The billionaires will not save us.

They're tearing society down — and we're all the collateral.

People aren’t lazy, they are burnt out and taking healthier opportunities.

Employee retention is am EMPLOYER problem, not an EMPLOYEE problem.

Let’s see. #QElon sold $40 billion in TSLA starting at its highest value, now trading 70% down and it still has a 38x P/E.

How exactly is this not insider trading, if not blatant market manipulation aka pump-and-dump?

The reason he wants people focused on SBF is that his fraud is orders of magnitude larger. #Dogecoin 😂

Tiens, ça pourrait faire une chouette carte de vœux…

Suggestion pour @gretathunberg

Ça date de septembre 2017

“Do not listen to powers that be who pretend that getting infected w/ COVID multiple times is now no big deal. They’re asking you to lower your guard for a nasty virus that can invade the brain, disregulate the immune system and damage the vascular system” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/21/Ten-Downplayed-COVID-Facts/

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