Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
Thiago Carvalho
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Happening in 1 hour: #CCN2024, "On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mind research?" - talk and townhall discussion
'This was neither an entirely grassroots phenomenon nor a campaign orchestrated by foreign powers (though it wouldn’t be surprising if Russian propagandists were trying to make hay with the disorder). Rather, it is an integral part of the way far-right activists now operate.'
Thiago Carvalho
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It’s time for our #MidweekMovie! This week we’re tracking EB1 comets with Sarah Attrill, Liam Dolan & colleagues. They find that microtubules and actin filaments direct nuclear movement during the polarisation of Marchantia spore cells.
📖 @Dev_journal: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/151/20/dev202823/361226/Microtubules-and-actin-filaments-direct-nuclear
#DevSIDiversity
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When someone keeps “just asking questions” about whether vaccines are safe, or if climate change is real, or if a particular ethnic group should be put in a fucking camp, they’re not engaged in a genuine search for truth.
They’re exploiting our cognitive biases to make their fucknuckle ideas seem more plausible through sheer repetition.
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PNAS corrects article by Kavli prize winner who threatened to sue critic (me). Read post by Ellie Kincaid at Retraction Watch, including my comment (spoiler: I am not impressed)
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/08/06/pnas-corrects-article-by-kavli-prize-winner-who-threatened-to-sue-critic/
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Automakers are tweaking production processes to create a slew of new steels with just the right properties, allowing them to build cars that are both safer and more fuel-efficient.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2024/new-steel-for-stronger-lighter-cars
'Despite Flatiron struggling to make money, one benefit of the acquisition is that its data has helped to improve cancer drug development at Roche, which is currently testing about 60 oncology drugs in clinical trials.'
https://www.ft.com/content/3f87d26c-c98d-42f4-b460-5011e255aa95
'A 2012 longitudinal study of about 5 million women from 1961 to 2007 found that immigrant women and women with a low level of education actually had a lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who were highly educated and born in Sweden. And yet, from 2000 onwards, the mortality rate was significantly higher among the first group. One reason is likely to be because only 60% of women born outside Sweden go for their mammogram appointments compared to 80% of those born in the country'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/07/sweden-breast-cancer-europe-immigrant-women-screening
Thiago Carvalho
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Do you know anyone who works in a press office?
Ask them "Why do so many press office give their exclusives to X? Why not post to X on, like, a 6 hour time delay (or not at all... though this might be too much for them)"
We gotta stop news from "breaking" on there. Break it on blueSky, break it on tumblr I don't even care (though really break it here please and thank u)
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A Chinese academic was convicted on Tuesday of illegally acting as a foreign agent in the U.S. by collecting information about New York-based activists supporting democracy in China and sharing his findings with Beijing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/07/world/politics/chinese-academic-foreign-agent-us/ #worldnews #politics #china #us #espionage #shujunwang
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Beware of Twitter's misinformation machine.
"Stop using Twitter for news. Do this in preparation for the tsunami of disinformation coming in October. The site cannot be trusted and will harm your brain this fall."
https://www.theframelab.org/beware-trumps-secret-weapon-elon-musks-x-twitter/
'Countries like the United States, China and Russia are spending trillions of dollars to modernize their stockpiles. Many of the safeguards that once lowered nuclear risk are unraveling, and the diplomacy needed to restore them is not happening. The threat of another blast can’t be relegated to history.'
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/06/opinion/hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-bombing.html
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/05/rugged-individuals/#misleading-by-analogy
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Here's an open secret: the confusing jargon of finance is not the product of some inherent complexity that requires a whole new vocabulary. Rather, finance-talk is all obfuscation, because if we called finance tactics by their plain-language names, it would be obvious that the sector exists to defraud the public and loot the real economy.
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'The basement performance, for a small crowd of Broadway insiders, investors and friends, was the first private reading of a new musical with a story by Mr. Hwang, and music and lyrics by Bear McCreary and Zoe Sarnak. The show recounts one of the biggest events in physics this century: the discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson and the people behind it.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/science/higgs-boson-musical.html
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The "new right" has a weird, yes, weird obsession with Viktor Orbán. They'd like the USA to be more like Hungary under this man. https://newrepublic.com/article/179776/heritage-foundation-viktor-orban-trump
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Scientists are stepping up to criticize those promoting the lab leak hypothesis based on dubious, scarce evidence. #COVID https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01240-24
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No 10 criticises Elon Musk for 'civil war is inevitable' post on England riots
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/05/no-10-criticises-elon-musk-post-x-riots
Thiago Carvalho
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Reminder: Sign up for our #OpenAccess 101 session happening tomorrow, Aug. 6 at 3pm ET w/ the @ScNotebook team. Perfect intro on the foundations of OA for those new to the space or others wanting a refresher. Free to all. Please share widely.
Thiago Carvalho
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Mpox strain killing 3% of infected is spreading beyond DRC.
"The mpox virus found in DRC, known as clade 1, has in the last year killed about 3% of those infected. The milder variety of mpox, clade 2, erupted from Nigeria in May 2022, infecting nearly 100,000 people in 116 countries to date and spreading mainly among men who have sex with men (MSM). Only 208 deaths have been reported [of clade 2], a case fatality rate of 0.2%.
#mpox #InfectiousDisease https://www.science.org/content/article/deadlier-strain-mpox-spreads-more-african-countries
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
