Tavo @tavoglc@social.cleverlibre.org

'Harvard still boasts a fellowship and a professorship named for Alfried Krupp, a Nazi war criminal whose industrial empire used around 100,000 forced laborers.

Harvard is not alone: From NASA to Stanford to the United States Army, American institutions continue to acknowledge — and sometimes even celebrate — high-profile former Nazis.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/stanford-harvard-nasa-nazi-scientists.html

Humans have learned absolutely nothing in a century.

This is a real newspaper article regarding people's behavior during the 1918 influenza outbreak.

#covid19 #covidthoughts #influenza #flu #history #medicine

One potential explanation for why Mastodon is less argumentative than Twitter is that its character limits allow users to more effectively communicate their ideas, reducing the likelihood of misinterpretation.#xp

Good times 🥲

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

Temporal changes in plasma membrane lipid content induce endocytosis to regulate developmental epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212879119 #Morpholino

You stop trying to win the game when you realize you’re playing with clowns.

Stages of getting into a new research thing

1. No one has thought of this
2. Oh, some people have, but it’s not exactly the same
3. Oh, it’s exactly the same
4. OMG, everyone already knows about this, but they all call it something different

'Recently, more than 100 novel #antiviral prokaryotic systems were uncovered (2–7). Among them, multiple bacterial antiviral systems were identified as the evolutionary origin of eukaryotic antiviral proteins, including CBASS (homolog of the eukaryotic cGAS/STING pathway), gasdermins, viperins or Avs (related to the NLR family) (8–12). In this work, we explore whether novel eukaryotic immune components can be identified by homology with prokaryotic defense systems.'

#Preprint #Virology #Phage
#InnateImmunity #Evolution

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.12.520048v1

Una #instancia "de peruanos para peruanos"

https://mastodonperu.xyz

#Perú #Peru

What we learned thru #covid is just as important thru #flu. Currently in the #us and #canada there are abnormally high rates of flu and deaths from flu.

Usually governments provide reliable information about for example diseases or catastrophes. If news organizations aren't proving reliable information about (some) current topics, one might argue that it doesn't provide reliable information about governmental issues like corruption in the government or how a government's actions is affecting its average citizens. In fact it's demonstrably true that most corporate news organizations dont provide reliable information about such governmental topics. It's sexier (more $$$) to talk about whatever some fringe Republican has said or what Drumpf is doing because there's drama there. There's not much drama in reporting about e.g. efficacy of certain homelessness prevention measures compared to other measures.

U.S. #ActionItem #ActionAlert
#Covid19 #ThePandemicIsNotOver
Text Sign PRRGXL to 50409

[Text of letter to your elected officials:
I'm writing to ask you to fully support the Biden Administration's request for emergency funding for COVID-19 response. The American people need you to wholeheartedly support money to weather the winter surge; to keep tests, vaccines, and treatments available to the American people; to research long COVID; and to develop next-generation vaccines to truly put this pandemic nightmare behind us. We must also ensure that the vaccine is available globally. Again, as a constituent, I'm asking you to fight for this funding.]

https://resist.bot/petitions/PRRGXL

Hello, Mastodon!
What an unfortunate situation at Twitter, so here we are! I am a cell biology scientist that is all about YOUR amazing science and more!

As for an introduction, here you have a video from my research: Blood infection in vivo! #Zebrafish embryo infected with #Salmonella (green dots) and live imaged 10 hrs post-infection. Sensory #neurons (DRG, green) and #macrophages (magenta) detect and coordinate the body's anti-microbial response.

Just a quick introduction to the INMAN Lab.
The INMAN Lab is interested in how the human brain makes real, rich, complex memories that last and working on ways to fix episodic memory when it fails. Our ultimate goal is to explain real-world behavior in terms of the activities of the brain and to translate these discoveries into therapeutic approaches that can help those suffering from neural disorders.
We love connecting with everyone and hope that you’ll reach out to connect with us!

Thought I’d write a quick #introduction! I'm a Professor at the University of Toronto where my lab studies the neural and cognitive mechanisms supporting memory and perception.

Recently, we’ve launched a line of research that seeks to translate core principles from memory science into tangible solutions to mitigate memory loss. You can read about our first attempt here: https://psyarxiv.com/2fwup/.

Very happy to be part of the #NeuroscienceMigration and to connect with you here!

Society is capricious and irrational about when it will pay for the novelty of human labor over automation. We'll pay for a human to make us complicated coffee- that could be easily be automated, but not want to pay the exact same human to sketch our portrait or sing us a song.

Hi everyone! Here's my #introduction. I'm a PhD student working on fungal #genetics in the USA. I never found a lot of fungal geneticists at that ~other place~ (my PI doesn't use it, for instance) but I hope to have better luck here. I study regulation of nitrogen metabolism and would love to talk shop. #fungi

Avian Flu has been killing off commercial egg producing hens in Colorado since last April. Millions have been slaughtered in attempts to contain the spread. Now infecting bald eagles and other wildlife: https://coloradosun.com/2022/12/12/colorado-worst-bird-flu-outbreak-raptors-wild-bird-deaths/

I need help. I've been trying to find and follow Black People in the sciences, history, politics, education, and other specialties.

I've failed miserably.

Can Mastodonians point me to (for starters) Black People in epidemiology and virology? Thank you!
💐

#BlackMastodon
#epidemiology
#virology