Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Wow, so one of the most powerful owners in the #NFL, Jerry Jones of the Dallas #Cowboys, was one of the bullies trying to stop his Black classmates from desegregating Central High School in Little Rock, #Arkansas in 1957. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/interactive/2022/jerry-jones-black-coaches-nfl/?itid=hp-more-top-stories_p003_f001

“In the classroom, however, we teach only the settled facts. We don’t highlight the messy business of getting there. A public accustomed to learning about science as a final product was perhaps perplexed to see science in the making.”
This piece by
@ct_bergstrom on Twitter and the pandemic is worth your time. Would love to debate the questions he raises here!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/pandemic-twitter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

A postdoc position is available with Kazoo Kitamura at the University of Yamanashi in Japan. I can 100% say that it would be great to work with Kazuo, he would be a great postdoc advisor.
http://nphys-lab.yamanashi.ac.jp/hiring/

I thought this paper by Pacheco et al. was interesting, showing how mobile PI(4,5)P2 is on the plasma membrane. Surprisingly PIP2 is highly mobile even when engaged with e.g. clathrin machinery. Nice use of SPT/TrackMate and reporters to examine lipid distribution in the membrane.

https://rupress.org/jcb/article/222/2/e202204099/213711/PI-4-5-P2-diffuses-freely-in-the-plasma-membrane

Note: I'll try to boost interesting #cellbiology papers occasionally. Join me! Maybe we can use the #paperotd paper of the day hashtag of yesteryear.

Chemist Rachel Fuller Brown was born #OTD in 1898. She discovered the antifungal antibiotic nystatin while doing research for the NY State Department of Health, hence the name.

Rather than keep the profits from the drug, Brown (standing in the photo) and co-discoverer Elizabeth Hazen assigned nystatin’s patent royalties to the nonprofit Research Corporation of New York, to help support other researchers.

Image: Smithsonian Institution

Interested in #mechanobiology ? A reminder for a few #MastodonScience places:

@mechanobiology group: follow it, it'll retoot all messages it's mentioned in to all its followers.

@mechanobio posts the #mechanobiology preprints and papers from #bioRxiv, #arXiv and #pubmed.

https://jocelynetienne.github.io/Mastodon-Biophysicists/ proposes to build an online directory of people doing biophysics in general

Very excited to have received a Carl Tryggers grant to hire a postdoc working or the tiny, but highly specialised eyes of the pest insect, thrips! This project has been percolating in the background ever since my PhD, and it will be great to have someone working on it in earnest.

#introduction:
We are a new cell systems biology team at the #UniversityOfManchester #UoM.
We study #CellAdhesion #networks in health and disease, especially #cancer.
Fascinated by how adhesion proteins help #cells function in so many ways!

#proteomics #integrins #adhesion #cytoskeleton #nucleus #bioinformatics #omics #ExtracellularMatrix #ECM #NetworkBiology #DataViz

🇺🇸 👇
Hiring Postdoctoral position in skeletal muscle regeneration/degeneration.

👍 NIH funded postdoctoral position is available in the laboratory of Dr. Bosnakovski.
Department of Pediatrics (University of Minnesota, USA) to work on the molecular and cellular mechanism of #FSHD.

💡 The fellow will have an opportunity to use various in vitro and in vivo models to study epigenetic and cellular aberrations induced by DUX4

👉 https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3342192206/

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

#historyofscience #womeninscience #womeninSTEM

Elaine Diacumakos (1930-1984) developed the technique of physical microinjection for inserting #cloned #genes into the #nuclei of mammalian cells with French Anderson around 1979-1980.

source : https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/15/obituaries/elaine-diacumakos-held-a-leading-role-in-cell-microsurgery.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Diacumakos

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.77.9.5399

I'm with Niels Bohr when it comes to #logic:

"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”

I wrote an editorial about the #AntimicrobialResistance crisis. It covers the need for a #Global #Equitable approach, #resistance in neglected #fungi & #parasites, the promise of new #antibiotics, sharing of #sequence data, idiotic policies that risk antibiotic stewardship & more

Please share it far and wide - this #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek we've not been as loud as others, or as loud as we need to

The antimicrobial resistance crisis needs action now
#WAAW2022 https://plos.io/3U2OoeJ

So Mastodon instances are typical examples of whole code duplication events - i.e. #paralog driven #evolution of social network diversity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hi. We are a #neuroscience lab at the Research Centre of the CHUSJ at the University of Montreal, Canada. We study synaptic integration and plasticity rules for dendritic spines and the formation of memories in the neocortex. Happy to be in #sciencemastodon #neuroscience