Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
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🦠 A Few More #Mpox ( #MonkeyPox) Pandemic Updates 🦠
"Assuming APOBEC-editing is characteristic of [mpox] infection in human hosts, we propose an APOBEC clock that – at a rate of ~6 APOBEC3 mutations per year – estimates [mpox] has been circulating in humans since 2016."
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.23.525187v1
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When elephants are not like E. coli:
“That time was the beginning of cloning of human genes. She (Shirley Tilghman) cloned the beta globin gene. People went to listen to her seminar (at the NIH) and she presented this amazing discovery that when looking at the electron microscope of the hybridization of the globin message and the gene that they had cloned, there was a piece of the gene that was not in the message.”
From the #EMBOPodcast with Roberto di Lauro, who was a group leader at the EMBL, a professor at the University of Naples Federico II, served as President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and the scientific attaché to the Italian Embassy in London.
#EMBOPodcast
https://www.embo.org/podcasts/we-should-know-more-this-is-our-main-job/
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I can't believe I missed this podcast last year: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt
cc @mucida
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https://www.publicbooks.org/primary-sources-ta-nehisi-coates-on-tony-judt/
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A tiger for art lovers and Clive Barker fans by @hunchbacksociety
#ceramics #ceramic #ceramicart #handmade #ArtMastodon
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March 6, 1866, died #OTD, philosopher & historian of #science William Whewell. He coined many concepts in #geology - like catastrophism & uniformitarianism - and was especially interested in mineralogy - Whewellite was named in his honor 💎 #MineralMonday
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If you're organising a #meeting and would like support to reduce the #environmental impact of your event, our #Sustainable Conferencing #Grants might be able to help.
@BritishNeuro used their grant to offer ‘Train over Plane’ travel grants. These grants reimbursed BNA members who chose to travel to the meeting by train, coach or carshare, rather than catching a plane. Find out more here:
Details about our meeting grants can be found here:
'Another end-of-civilisation-as-we-know-it crops up in Moths (Angry Robot, £9.99), an invigorating debut by Jane Hennigan. This time the culprit is a hitherto unknown species of moth whose caterpillars spread tiny noxious threads that have an adverse effect on male humans, causing half to die and the rest to go homicidally — and often misogynistically — insane.'
https://www.ft.com/content/8fb6b85d-d499-4bfb-8d4d-54da23969792
AI in breast cancer screening.
"Advancements in A.I. are beginning to deliver breakthroughs in breast cancer screening by detecting the signs that doctors miss. So far, the technology is showing an impressive ability to spot cancer at least as well as human radiologists, according to early results and radiologists, in what is one of the most tangible signs to date of how A.I. can improve public health."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/technology/artificial-intelligence-breast-cancer-detection.html
"Stipends available! Apply for the Chen Science Writer Award or a stipend to attend the FENS–Chen Institute –NeuroLéman #SummerSchool!
Don’t miss this #training opportunity and apply before the deadline, 13 March."
Maybe it's better to talk about ending silent exploitation.
“Quiet quitting has such a negative connotation; it makes you feel even worse.” Many researchers disdain the term, noting that they’re neither quitting nor being quiet about their desire to create healthier work–life boundaries, prioritize their mental health and reject toxic workplace cultures.'
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This is not a drill.
The nightmare scenario for personal privacy in a world where women are stripped of their reproductive rights is coming to pass:
Meta, Google, other tech companies are providing police with evidence to help prosecute women who seek or perform abortions
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Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series "A Cook’s Tour" Free Online (2002-03)
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I study #immune #evolution, including host - #pathogen interactions. My work has focused on #antimicrobial #defense #peptides which are like #antibiotics coded by the #genome . A key focus is #immunity-#microbiome interactions 🦠
New PP: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774
I also talk ethical publishing and advancing the conversation on #preprint, #openscience, and #academicchatter.
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MSCA Postdoctoral fellow in evolutionary/functional genomics @marie_saitou
#ScienceJobs #job
Ås, Viken #Norway #PostdoctoralFellow
https://jobrxiv.org/job/norwegian-university-of-life-sciences-marie-saitou-group-27778-msca-postdoctoral-fellow-in-evolutionary-functional-genomics/?feed_id=39810
"We collected 48 faecal samples from all but one of the 17 bat species breeding in the UK, through an extensive network of bat rehabilitators and conservationists, and screened them for coronaviruses using deep RNA sequencing."
#preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.17.524183v3
“The major advantage of NK cells is they’ve never killed anybody, unlike CAR-T cells,” says Lewis Lanier of the University of California, San Francisco, and the Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy, who has pioneered research into the NK cell biology over the past 40 years. For reasons that are not fully understood, cytokine release syndrome, if it occurs during NK cell therapy, tends to be much milder.'
"An investigation by ProPublica found online pharmacies that sell abortion medication such as mifepristone and misoprostol are sharing sensitive data, including users' web addresses, relative location, and search data, with Google and other third-party sites — which allows the data to be recoverable through law enforcement requests."
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Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers.
One legal expert said social platforms may cooperate with police even if not legally required to.
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The way the immune system protects the body’s cells from cytotoxic T cells also makes these killer cells worse at eliminating cancer. https://elifesciences.org/digests/79342/keeping-killer-t-cells-in-check?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic
'This delicate process—following and developing the master’s path by criticizing the master—has a precise beginning in the history of human thought: the position that Anaximander assumed vis‑à‑vis his master Thales.'
https://lithub.com/when-rebellion-becomes-virtue-how-the-scientific-method-came-to-be/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
