Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

EMBL-UNESCO Residency in #Infection Biology Research

'The successful candidate(s) will be hosted by one or more group leaders within the Infection Biology Transversal Theme, spread across EMBL’s six sites in Europe – who will mentor and co-develop the project proposed by the candidate, in line with the group’s research focus.'

https://www.embl.org/about/info/scientific-visitor-programme/fellowships/embl-unesco-fellowships/

"When Twitter announced on 2 February that the social media platform would end free access to its application programming interface (API) in a week, meaning tomorrow, a clock began ticking for Jean-Philippe Cointet. Like other researchers interested in topics such as political polarization or how misinformation spreads, the social scientist at Sciences Po uses the API to freely gather data on the hundreds of millions of tweets sent daily."

https://www.science.org/content/article/twitters-plan-cut-free-data-access-evokes-fair-amount-panic-among-scientists#.Y-jIIy7Sqvk.twitter

'Back in Aix, his discussion circle had included not only Émile Zola, on a fast track to celebrity, but a formidable young scientist called Antoine-Fortuné Marion. It was Marion who alerted the group to the recent revolutions in thought advanced by Lyell and Darwin. Zola articulated their response in 1865: ‘I see in the study of geology a new faith, a faith both philosophical and religious.’'

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n04/julian-bell/mass-equals-pigment

“Las estrategias climáticas de la mayoría de las empresas están atascadas en compromisos ambiguos, planes de compensación que carecen de credibilidad” y programas que no contemplan todas las emisiones que genera cada multinacional'

https://elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambiente/2023-02-12/greenwashing-un-estudio-advierte-de-los-enganosos-planes-climaticos-de-las-multinacionales-que-se-presentan-como-verdes.html

'Quem ler o texto fica com a sensação de que a extrema-direita nos caiu em cima por geração espontânea, obra e graça dos ventos da história, sem responsabilidades que possam ser assacadas. Não há referência ao desastre da liberalização dos mercados que marcou a governação dos partidos “da área política” de Augusto Santos Silva'

https://www.publico.pt/2023/02/13/opiniao/opiniao/farmacia-augusto-santos-silva-2038595

"Our results showed that the Omicron lineage had an accelerated mutation rate in the RBD region, while the mutation incidence in other genomic regions did not change dramatically over time."

#Preprint #Evolution #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.06.527236v1

Interesting piece on companies bringing bringing #microbiome analysis into the clinic for their predictive value in cancer #immunotherapy. But take it with this major boulder of salt:

“I think that it’s certainly worth doing,” says Steven Salzberg, computational biologist at Johns Hopkins. “But you have to be really skeptical of what you find.” Before they become widely adopted, the field needs validation, replication and large gold standard trials.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01677-z?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_SCON_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO