Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

Paid sick leave is a slippery slope to all kinds of expensive things - paid maternity leave, paid healthcare, paid pensions, paid jobs. Where does it end

Super happy to share the first preprint from my PhD:
“Identifying Content-Invariant Neural Signatures of Phenomenal Magnitude” with
Lau Andersen, @smfleming and @nadine_dijkstra!

If you like work on consciousness and/or higher-order theories this might be for you!

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.30.518510v1

A wise man sees failure as progress.
A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
And loses his soul in the process.

- Canibus

Remember that our missteps are still steps; keep moving towards your goals and you'll get there.

Why is the ability to do good science orthogonal to the ability to give a good presentation? I would think intelligence and creativity would be common attributes to both skills. 30 years of watching science seminars makes me think the two skills are independent of each other.

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

New preprint from Valeria Fumagalli, @iannaconelab et al

"Nirmatrelvir treatment blunts the development of antiviral adaptive immune responses in SARS-CoV-2 infected mice"

#Preprint #COVID #Covid19 #SarsCov2

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.22.517465v2

#Chem4Word 2022 (Release1) is now available, with full reaction handling!

Download it FREE from https://github.com/Chem4Word/Version3-2/releases/

#opensci #chemistry #cheminformatics #FOSS

I haven't posted one of these in a while, so here's a reminder that 37% of the revenue from #Elsevier exits #academia and ends up in the pockets of shareholders: https://library.unc.edu/2020/02/scholarly-publishing-at-the-tipping-point/

Here's one way in which we can wrestle our labor away from them, using #CollectiveAction.

#OpenScience #PeerReview #ScienceMastodon #scicomm #OpenAccess #FAIR #EthicalPublishing #AcademicPublishing #DemocratisingKnowledge

Este año en casa, en vez de escribir carta a los reyes...xd hemos decidido hacer un puto powerpoint con las cosas que nos gustaría y los links de compra xD

En 2 semanas tenemos la noche temática y prepararemos algo de picoteo y mucha cerveza para presentar nuestros Power.

¡Así aciertas seguro!

Our research poster from Harvard Medical School last month (PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z3ehnrVvfZG5e_uu8i0Y4HS86Tw_vI8Q/view?usp=sharing) with key findings about 43 projects that have integrated #medical provision & #biodiversity #conservation. #planetaryhealth mapping.

This book about contemporary #fascism is quite good and I'm learning a lot from it. It's also rather horrifying. https://amzn.to/3ORwlHp

Hey Structural Biologists

#crystallography #MX #CryoEM #CryoET #NMR #SAXS #HDX #Alphafold #PDB #EMDB #StructuralBiology

I have created a group @strucbio .

If you tag this account in any relevant toot, it will automatically boost it.

So if you follow this account, any toots about structural biology should end up in your TL. The more people use it, the better it will be.

Boosting appreciated.

Model organism limitations

"Although many of the fundamental observations in murine models are expected to be similar in human tissue, it may still be difficult to directly transfer the observations to a human context. In particular, murine skin architecture is dominated by hair follicles, which are less frequent in human skin, leaving human skin with a larger proportion of much thicker interfollicular epidermis (22). Hence, to understand and translate the functions of the TGF-β signaling pathways into a human setting, it is important to use a human cellular and tissue system"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.abo2206