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RT @OdedRechavi
Cool! An all star podcast with Jane Hubbard, Marty Chalfie & Carol Greider (GSA President & 2 Nobel laureates) explaining why genetics is so powerful and inspiring 🔥 twitter.com/GeneticsGSA/status

RT @QuyenUCSB
We have an open rank faculty position. Come join us in sunny Santa Barbara. chem.ucsb.edu/news/feature/140

Betty Holberton US computer scientist. #WWII 1 of 6 original programmers of ENIAC 1st general-purpose electronic digital computer. Invented breakpoints in computer debugging. "Solved more problems in her sleep than other people did awake" d #OTD 8 Dec 2001 bit.ly/3XwZE69

#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth#WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery

"If you pressed #* on the cordless phone, a full-length mirror would pop open and reveal my secret stash of special papers, pigments, collector stamps, light tables, vintage typewriters, certificates of authenticity, notebooks with signatures – everything a professional art forger might need."

spectator.co.uk/article/the-se

"Olfaction is at once both the primitive sensory modality and one of the hardest to understand, in large part due to the complexity of olfactory stimulus space. Whereas light and sound are easily ordered along natural physical axes that are reflected in their respective sensory codes, the organizational axes of odor space are not obvious."

Barnum & Hong Primer on olfactory coding @CurrentBiology

cell.com/current-biology/fullt

Yesterday's NYT piece on #biodiversity loss might make one think that forests are disappearing bc of the "needs" of "local people." The emphasis should be placed squarely on distant Western consumers who use 13 times more resources/capita than "local" people #COP15 #biodiversity

It looks like this platform might finally become more populated, so let me (re)introduce this page.

Neurofrontiers is a bilingual blog about interesting neuroscience topics that tries to be accessible to the broader public while still maintaining scientific accuracy. It's run by a team of three people: a computational neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a graphic designer. We think that being on social media allows us to stay up-to-date with the most recent discussions in science and hope to be able to connect with like-minded individuals.

Posting interests below so we show up in mutual searches:

Species-specific LUBAC-mediated M1 ubiquitination counteracts necroptosis by segregating the cellular distribution and fate of activated MLKL biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

#Introduction #Mastodon

My academic life is split in:

1) Vice-Rector for Research @unibern since 1.1.22. Working on making UniBe a place where everyone can spend time asking big and small questions about the world. #BetterScience

2) PI at the Inst. of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine. Our group is fascinated by #IonChannels & #Channelopathies.

3) Being a voice for the many scientists from less privileged parts of the world, particularly the ones from the African continent. #ScienceInAfrica

#introduction I’m Izumi Fukunaga, a neuroscientist at OIST, Japan studying the sense of smell to understand how circuits in the brain work. Our lab uses mouse behaviour + physiological measurements + circuit perturbations.

I’m here for open and respectful discussions and sharing exciting news. Looking forward to meeting you.

Elton John quits Twitter blaming change in misinformation policy - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63925416

Let me make this *abundantly* clear. If you are symptomatic or at risk of being infectious with something that could complicate your patient’s clinical course, a fit-tested respirator is a low cost measure that you as a healthcare worker ignore to the detriment of your patient’s safety.
This is not a controversial take & is reflected in the current COVID policy instituted in many hospitals, but is likely just as relevant for #influenza, #RSV, #Rhinovirus, & HMPV. #Masks #COVID19 #PatientSafety

RT @TimPollex@twitter.com

New enhancer-promoter interactions are gained during tissue differentiation and reflect changes in E/P activity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TimPollex/status/1

“Los escritores no tienen que ser profesores de moral, pero tienen que expresar la condición humana. Y nada es más esencial, para todos los hombres y en todos los instantes, que el bien y el mal”. La frase pertenece a un artículo de Simone Weil. Tiene 32 años y ya lleva algunos meses en Marsella, transformada en ciudad de paso para miles de europeos que escapaban del nazismo.'

elpais.com/babelia/2022-12-09/

'What types of responses can occur transgenerationally? Can the brain coordinate these responses?'

Throwback to the Fall of 2021, the second with @Odedrechavi "Physiologically Irreverent"

embo.org/podcasts/physiologica

'Using genetic knockouts and specific inhibitors, we demonstrate that glycosaminoglycans, integrins, and the TGF-β signaling axis are required for S-mediated barrier dysfunction. Notably, we show that SARS-CoV-2 infection caused leak in vivo, which was reduced by inhibiting integrins. Our findings offer mechanistic insight into SARS-CoV-2-triggered vascular leak, providing a starting point for development of therapies targeting COVID-19.'



nature.com/articles/s41467-022

"The concept that scientific articles can be bought and sold (8–12) contradicts everything that most researchers wish to believe about scientific publishing, and some readers may doubt that paper mills exist. We will therefore summarise what is known or predicted of paper mill operations and their likely drivers and enablers. We will summarise the evidence that paper mills have contributed to the human gene research literature at scale and describe why human gene research may be particularly vulnerable to industrial-scale research fraud."

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-a

@explainpaper inspired by @halama_immuno

Targeting Tumor-Promoting Microenvironment Through CCR5 Blockade in @colorectal @cancer @liver Metastases

#Cancer progression is a process in which cancer cells and #immune cells interact with each other in a way that can lead to the growth and spread of cancer. In #colorectal cancer, when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, it is called @metastasis and it is very difficult to treat.

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RT @RareGenomicsRSA
@danrdanny @shahida_moosa We're not a consortium (yet), but our rapidly expanding Undiagnosed Disease Programme is a first for sub-Saharan Africa.
#Genomics for #RareDiseases in #Africa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10
- for initial results. Since then, more than double the number of families have been tested!

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