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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RT @NathanGrubaugh
📢 Come be my colleague at @YaleSPH @YaleEMD!
Two✌️ Assistant or Associate Prof positions in Infectious Disease Epidemiology open in one of the best epi departments in the world (totally not biased 😉).
More info and link to apply 👉 https://apply.interfolio.com/122824
🙏 RT
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RT @BogochIsaac
Lassa fever is a nasty viral hemorrhagic fever in west Africa with seasonal variation in cases.
It poses a significant challenge to public health & healthcare systems.
Very exciting to see progress toward a vaccine 👇
https://bit.ly/3yYmlFa by Tschismarov et al. in @thelancet
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The impulse to anthropomorphize #ChatGPT remains powerful. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html?unlocked_article_code=OlSWoc67EOG2dVxBrqe9_Ko8At2X3oTRoaDWTwVUN6cMXTXfjpHZdhk0VKxSD4F3x2bZXPWzwv1waULeN6JtCq_FV4NWcdRPM7aIgglfedbeuW1gFpXvV-AY8M2TQPftM2jPndIVPbkAPf0Ppt9uL-0ufw5rWWrvNLzvaeOdEUCCe5Z71rlpn_-Q-8tvo3rphQ3ax39-P2ZWgrCqiq3pjZ070_G3StlqHNGCYcrptTQVjhmHofWzSa0L_GErX3QcIuPGU_hn9JHLGeOKNiez-R3SmFsctqyBVst_DPA0g3QZ-HfUrkcd_-eByFVXrUxTVyZHHSot6UWYPUHk5dJmp-tuobgX_LMppNzOfnQP8ds&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
What sense does it make to ask ChatGPT a question like this, unless you already take it for granted that it’s a conscious entity? What would it mean for it to have a favorite, or to have opinions about politics? And is “carefully” an appropriate word for a nonsentient algorithm?
The context is an article about a right-wing effort to pervert these models in an ideological direction, which is another topic.
On a an arboreal solution to the problem of the ever-growing forest of cell types:
"The end proposal is for a three-dimensional tree representation where the axes are cell lineage, differentiation state, and time, with computational techniques applied to determine when you branch things off (i.e., setting things up for maximum information gain in the display)."
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/organizing-our-thoughts-about-cells-finally
The LaLaLand of Lisbon's mayor: "affordable" university student housing, rooms/studios from 700 to 1100 euros/month.
For reference, the median monthly wage in the country is under 800 euros, and the current PhD stipend is €1145
'A Swiss pharmaceutical group has scrapped plans to conduct a major drug trial in the UK, damaging government efforts to showcase the country as an attractive destination for investment in life sciences after Brexit.'
https://www.ft.com/content/d7685eaa-5635-4e64-a390-b48908874bfe
@schoppik It plays into a larger translate only framework from Europe - soon it will become like the medieval scholastic tradition here: only translators of previous work, no new ideas
@schoppik Foundation will close IGC and move funding and some groups to the biomedical Molecular Medicine Institute of Lisbon University - which coincidentally is where the new Foundation President and the board member handling this came from (Vice Dean and Dean, respectively, per the piece you cannot open).
@schoppik Yes, especially because they would be dumping a basic science institute in favor of 'translational' research
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You know, if our study of #COVID19 causes us to realize many other viruses also damage our heart, that is an argument for MORE masking, not less. The reaction shouldn't be, “I guess COVID risks are like other viruses,” but “if all viruses are dangerous to our hearts, we need more caution and protection.”
“Growing evidence supports the involvement of other viral infections in the development of arrhythmia.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10840-023-01525-9
* in the life sciences, I don't know all of what's out there in other fields.
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Notch1 forms nuclear transcriptional condensates that drive target gene expression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.17.533124v1
Now there are two of them. If the lettuce joins the rebellion, this could get ugly (-ier).
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Very excited to announce that we will soon present the results of the Journal Observatory project.
Register now for our community event on April 25 https://www.journalobservatory.org/event/.
In this community event we will introduce a machine-readable framework for describing the policies and practices of scholarly communication platforms.
To demonstrate the value of this framework, we will present a prototype of the Journal Observatory.
@seblammers Years later it was revealed that Clever Hans and Pfungst were both pawns in an endgame conceived by the true mastermind, the donkey Cunning Klaus.
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The Yale Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases is looking for two new tenure track faculty. Yale EMD is a great place to work with wonderful colleagues and students. Please spread the word.
#epidemiology #epiverse #causalinference #publichealth https://apply.interfolio.com/122824
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In 1904, a group of prominent scholars from the Prussian Academy of Sciences asserted that “Clever Hans,” a horse, possessed near-human mathematical abilities.
However, it was not until several years of rigorous examination by psychologist Oskar Pfungst that it was revealed the horse was only responding to the cues from its handlers.
Not everything you observe that seems to be due to #intelligence is in fact intelligent.
Read more about Clever Hans on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Terrible news for science in Portugal. The Gulbenkian Foundation is killing off the IGC. This will leave the Champalimaud as the only truly independent international research center in the country.
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Postdoctoral fellow, Stem cells, Gene editing & Leukemia @EinsteinMed
Come join us in #NYC as postdoc @EinsteinMed to explore Stem cells, Gene editing & Leukemia
#ScienceJobs #job @Einstein_SCI, @neuron81, @ae_cancercenter...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/albert-einstein-college-of-medicine-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-stem-cells-gene-editing-leukemia/?feed_id=41166
Thiago Carvalho
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
