Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
'The job of the P.B.M.s is to reduce drug costs. Instead, they frequently do the opposite. They steer patients toward pricier drugs, charge steep markups on what would otherwise be inexpensive medicines and extract billions of dollars in hidden fees, a New York Times investigation found.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/business/prescription-drug-costs-pbm.html
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Compositionally unique mitochondria in filopodia support cellular migration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.21.600105v1?med=mas
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Notch1 is required to maintain supporting cell identity and vestibular function during maturation of the mammalian balance organs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.21.600098v1?med=mas
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Study challenges popular idea that Easter islanders committed 'ecocide' https://phys.org/news/2024-06-popular-idea-easter-islanders-committed.html
'Science works slowly—for instance, it took years to understand the origin of HIV-1 in chimpanzees—and the arduous process of scientific discovery is being weaponized here to promote conspiracy theories and sinister motives without evidence to back them up.'
#Covid #Covid19 #SciComm
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyt-covid-opinion-coverage/
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Plato wrote that thought “is a silent inner conversation of the soul with itself.” And yet recent studies on the brain find no evidence that we use language to think. Here’s my story on this fascinating debate. [Gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/science/brain-language-thought.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U0.Kfbn.cWqiYcis-fKE&smid=url-share
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What goes into making a new dictionary?
One decision is which form of a word to use as the headword in each entry — the original spelling or the most modern form?
Here's an example about "chitterlings" versus "chitlins" from Dr. Sonja Lanehart who's part of the team working on the Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
Check out the whole interview:
Listen https://pod.link/173429229
Read: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/lanehart/transcript
Watch: https://youtu.be/xhFYj3pCeY4
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@xankarn
CAN I POINT OUT that this #RightWing extremist ideological shift in the Court is a perfect example of that happens when #Conservatives have an unchecked majority?
When #Democrats (*briefly*) had a "SuperMajority" (for 23 working days) in 2009, what did they do with it? They made sure everyone had access to affordable #healthcare.
What do Conservatives do? They abolish #Roe, repeal The #VotingRightsAct, codify discrimination against #gay & #trans individuals, and ban #books. 🤬
'At every one of the magazines I edited myself for the next four decades, the goal was to get Martin to write for me. And, loyally, he did. Whenever his copy arrived, it was Christmas Day in the office: so eagerly awaited, never a disappointment. Remember his unforgettable profile of Truman Capote? It appeared in one of my first issues of Tatler. “Never mind the interview. Let’s call an ambulance,” Martin wrote, on first sighting the ruined literary genius. “Or I can take him there in my briefcase, I thought, as I contemplated the childish, barefoot, nightshirted figure.” Who writes profiles like that today?'
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Big news for GBE: Our EIC Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker’s term will end December 31 2024, and we are seeking a replacement EIC to serve alongside Prof. Laura Katz. Interested candidates can learn more on the SMBE website https://buff.ly/3VBl3L4
' In July 1936 Greene, always restless, suggested he and Waugh should imitate Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and “do a race around the world”. Waugh refined the plan by adding: “I think that it should be a race not in time but economy. Each to start with no luggage and a limited sum — say £100 — and the one who arrives with the most cash in hand to get a prize.”
'Naturally the elderly, the underage, and the pregnant come in for the most abuse. Neither is the audience spared. “We’re in Poland! We’re in Europe! We made it!” cries a middle-aged, bespectacled Afghan woman who has managed to crawl under the fence. As nearsighted as she is, we know she will never make it.'
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/06/20/polish-compassion-agnieszka-holland/
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«Libé» recense les initiatives citoyennes contre l’extrême droite : carte interactive, «personnes de confiance» pour des procurations, kit de mobilisation…
Source: LIBERATION
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Did you know that it's possible to eliminate cervical cancer? In honour of #CervicalScreeningAwarenessWeek, here's more on the history of how https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109755390799776527
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"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs."
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817
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For the latest news on Covid, with the rundown on our 3-year follow-up published today, and other relevant biomedical information
'But if you pick fruit in a field, walk door to door delivering packages, stack boxes in an oppressively hot warehouse or do any number of other jobs without air-conditioning, you don’t have much legal protection against working under sweltering conditions.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/opinion/heat-wave-workers-climate.html
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High resolution profiling of cell cycle-dependent protein and phosphorylation abundance changes in non-transformed cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.20.599917v1?med=mas
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In April 2024, Dell announced a new policy that makes fully remote employees ineligible for promotions, with the exception of hybrid workers. Nearly half of the company's employees have said given this choice, they'd rather work from home than be eligible for promotion.
Based.
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Tomorrow on my live webcast History Matters:
Fighting Over Science: It’s Personal!
Science produces facts. It’s based on method & evidence.
But it also can be VERY personal in impact & power.
Join us tomorrow to see how science has always picked a fight.
Friday 10AM ET
https://NCHEteach.org/conversations
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
