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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Mastodon growth numbers might not mean what you think they mean...
In which I unpack the data sources & explain what's misleading about that 8 million data point.
#MastodonStats #MastodonMigration #TwitterMigration
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@Mill_lab @clathrin Had to look "bah humbug" up, and, amusingly, there's this:
Ba humbugi, a species of land #snail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_humbugi
...which seems apt, and not a coincidence:
"Alan Solem chose the generic name Ba after Ba District, Fiji, which extends into B. humbugi's range. This led to him having an "irresistible impulse" to name the type species Ba humbugi, in reference to the character Ebenezer Scrooge's catchphrase "Bah! Humbug!" from Charles Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol."
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Our paper on "The Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity" is out in MBE
https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac249
with @StephanPeischl and, above all, Flavia Schlichta!
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New pre-print by Sarah Walsh (🥇 from her PhD) looking at the (broad) host range of a phage across 64 Staphylococcus isolates - incl 17 species. Sarah found the host phylogeny is an important determinant of infectivity and susceptibility across this panel of hosts https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.30.518513 Fun collaborative project on this neat tractable system set up together with Angus Buckling. Big thanks to other coauthors too for all of their help!
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The @EMBOPress #editor roadshow is making a stop in Washington DC for the ASCB | EMBO #CellBio conference. If you're attending the meeting, visit us at booth #1433 to discuss #publishing your latest research! @embojournal @MolSystBiol @EmboMolMed @ReviewCommons
"A close examination of the IL-2–IL-2Rα binding interface reveals a putative “pH Switch” consisting of the interaction between Arg38 in IL-2 and His120 in IL-2Rα (Fig. 2F). We hypothesized that, at the low pH in the TME, His120 would become protonated, resulting in release of IL-2 from IL-2Rα and therefore lack of signaling."
"These findings demonstrate that despite extremely close genetic relationships between T. pallidum genomes globally, genomics can still be used to identify putative transmission clusters for epidemiological follow-up, and therefore has a role to play in informing public health interventions"
#PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Preprint #STD #Syphilis
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.02.22283031v1
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Hi! 👋🏻 I am the coordinator for the Open Science Center at the LMU University in Munich. We promote open research practices through peer to peer training, community building, and liaising with stakeholders to reform incentives and policy.
I am a former biologist and cofounded the Society for Open Reliable and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology, SORTEE.
I only post about #OpenScience, but I'm also #French #FirstGen #ClimateAnxious #Vegan #Autistic #LGBTQIA+
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🚨 A new study finds that "#LongCovid is associated with new-onset insulin resistance (IR) in a subset of patients. Increased IR may contribute to the onset of depressive symptoms due to #LongCovid by enhancing overall neurotoxicity." http://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.01.22283011v1
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RT @DagmarIber
RT @yoginho
RT EMBOevents
Sign up now! Registration and abstract submission is now open until 31 March for EMBO Lecture Course on Venice Summer School: The future of evolutionary-developmental systems biology, 21 – 25 August 2023 in Venice, Italy (1/2)
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Musk's Twitter reinstated the account of one of America's most dangerous Nazis. It recommended that other users follow him. From the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/
'In this study, we estimated the serial interval by analyzing 109 pairs of laboratory-confirmed monkeypox in the Netherlands. After reviewing detailed exposure histories, we identified 34 pairs where the infectee reported a single potential infector. The mean serial interval for those 34 pairs was 10.1 days (95% CI: 6.6-14.7 days), suggesting a reproduction number between 1.3 and 1.6 during June 2022 in the Netherlands.'
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.03.22283056v1
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The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made
@macroliter have you heard this Louisiana story?
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Are you thinking of sciency 🧪⚛️⚗️🧑🔬👩🔬 decoration for your #Chemistree 🎄?
I have just uploaded a #MolecularCage model at @thingiverse for 3D printing!
🖥️Link to get the STL model:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5677643
#Chemistry #Science #ChemiVerse #ScienceMastodon #3DPrinting
'In a now famous ‘eureka’ moment, in 1974, Franco Bottazzo, a research fellow in Deborah Doniach’s laboratory in London, was the first to successfully visualize islet cell antibodies using indirect immunofluorescence, thereby confirming the presence of antibodies reactive to the islet. During experiments originally designed to support his thesis work on Addison’s disease, he observed that pancreatic islets “lit up” after incubation with sera from some patients with polyendocrine autoimmunity, most of whom had or would go on to develop #diabetes.'
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On the 4th day of #Crustmas my true love gave to me, a cephalocarid, Lightiella monniotae Cals & Delamare Deboutteville, 1970. It is #CephalocaridSunday after all. This weird group of meiofaunal crustacean were only discovered in the 1950's, first published on by Howard Sanders (1921-2001) while he worked on his Ph.D at Yale. #arthropoda #crustacea #Yale
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"Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist’s tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
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I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
