Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Throwback Tuesday:
I interviewed Facundo Batista for the @embojournal when he took over as Chief Editor in 2021. One of the things we discussed was the importance of mentors:
"TC: What do you remember most about Michael Neuberger as a mentor?
FDB: What was incredible about Michael was his clarity. You would present any biological problem to him, and he would crystallize in one sentence what the real question behind it was. He was amazing. Michael would enter into a state of thinking where he would stop looking at you and would start looking up at a wall and would start to concentrate for those 10, 20 minutes that you’d explain the problem. Then, he would come up with critical questions and he would be critical to the bones. "
https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2021108116
The very first thing I ever did in a lab was work on reptile allosteric modulators of hemoglobin, way back in 1993-94.
This new @CurrentBiology article provoked some nostalgia
"Evolution and molecular basis of a novel allosteric property of crocodilian #hemoglobin"
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01840-1
If you're in Madrid
"De casi todas las prácticas que uno pueda imaginar, logradas a lomos de la química y de la tecnología, pero sin tener por qué retratar la realidad, más bien, procurando alejarse de ella, se ocupa la exposición Visiones expandidas, en el CaixaForum de Madrid hasta el 26 de marzo. Un recorrido con 172 obras de 107 artistas, procedentes del Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre d’Art Georges Pompidou, estructurado en seis secciones temáticas y sin orden cronológico."
https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-01-17/la-fotografia-que-traspasa-los-limites-de-la-realidad.html
In which Charles Darwin tries to predict the book-buying public's taste.
(from Janet Browne's "Charles Darwin, The Power of Place").
#books #reading #bookworm #Evolution #Darwin #CharlesDarwin #HistoryOfScience #HistoryScience
Aquatint by Madalena from a series of prints created between 2017- 2021 consisting of several stages, doors, caves or forests, where figures have been inserted through the technique of chine-collé & colours added through viscosity printing.
One of the great privileges of creating the Darwin bicentennial exhibition with Jose Feijo was meeting incredible artists and artisans who developed pieces for the exhibition.
Elisabeth Daynes was one of them: she made our young Darwin (about the age he would have been when he came home from the voyage of the Beagle) by a painstaking process of forensic reconstruction, as described in this inset from the catalog that Filipa Vala and I wrote.
"Colograph
The works presented here are created with alternative materials rather than etched on copper. From squashed paper costumes to packaging and leather book covers, objects are inked with different processes, both intaglio and planographic. Scales vary and are usually life-size. The paper costume prints are mostly made from real costumes (with the exception of the long dress, which is a smaller scale model) , worn by actors in a film project and subsequently smashed, inked and printed on cotton paper."
https://madalenaparreira.com/Colographs
Great set of videos at the Nobel site on the value of failure in science.
"Map 3 The Nuremberg Enigma"
By Constança Arouca & Madalena Parreira
"In this study, using cross-species models and multiple techniques, we revealed an uncharacterized role of endogenous retrovirus resurrection as a biomarker and driver for aging. Specifically, we identified endogenous retrovirus expression associated with cellular and tissue aging and that the accumulation of HERVK retrovirus-like particles (RVLPs) mediates the aging-promoting effects in recipient cells."
The Nobelist as Hamlet - an illustration by Madalena (https://madalenaparreira.com) for a review I wrote of Prusiner's 2014 autobiography, "Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions".
A shot from a spectacular film, Francesco Rosi's "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli).
'When ‘precolonial’ is used for describing African ideas, processes, institutions and practices, through time, it misrepresents them. When deployed to explain African experience and institutions, and characterise the logic of their evolution through history, it is worthless and theoretically vacuous. The concept of ‘precolonial’ anything hides, it never discloses; it obscures, it never illuminates; it does not aid understanding in any manner, shape or form.'
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò @aeon_co
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-precolonial-africa-is-vacuous-and-wrong
"However, binding and neutralization have poorly predicted protection in the past, and accumulating data across epidemiologic cohorts and animal models collectively point to a role for additional antibody Fc-effector functions. To begin to define the humoral correlates of immunity against RSV, here we profiled an adenovirus 26 RSV-preF vaccine-induced humoral immune response in a group of healthy adults that were ultimately challenged with RSV."
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
