Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

Gross! I'll wear a mask in public restrooms from now on whether we have #COVID19 or not...
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RT @jeffgilchrist
Speaking of wastewater, a very cool study used lasers to actually see and measure the aerosol plumes that come out of toilets when you flush ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24686-5 ). H/T: @yaneerbaryam 7/
https://twitter.com/jeffgilchrist/status/1601592284675338241

New research looks at the effects of repeated Covid infections and finds pretty much what you would expect: you not only do not get any kind of superimmunity, you increase your risk of long-term consequences, hospitalization and death. The worse news is that this holds true regardless of vaccination status.

This is not over. Please take care. Mask up.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RepeatInfection #WearAMask #MaskUp

Revolutionising CAR-T cells making T cells better able to kill tumour and resist chemotherapy . Brilliant https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63859184

Photographer Renatas Jakaitis captured this unintended moment when three fallow-deer were walking along a path and the sound of her camera caught their attention. Like an optical illusion, the deer appeared as one body with three almost identical heads.

This preprint on using GEMs (genetically encoded multimeric particles) for cellular cryoEM looks really nice. It is conceptually similar to FerriTagging developed in @roylelab (although they don't cite us 😐). The ability to non-invasively label proteins at nanoscale in EM images is really important for many questions in cell biology.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.10.519870v1

#Advent Day11: #Drosophila histrio! The only European member of the histrio group, it is superficially a little similar to D. immigrans but is a toadstool specialist that hugs the forest floor https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00469.x. Drosophila histrio is a big fly (for a drosophilid…) that lays large numbers of small eggs, and seems to prefer very short-lived fungi https://www.jstor.org/stable/6018. They rarely come to yeasted fruit bait, and in the UK I have caught them on sulfur tufts (Hypholoma) #Diptera #Entomology

Ada Lovelace was born on this day in 1815. For the young visionary in your life, a wonderful picture-book about how she became the world's first computer programmer https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/04/05/ada-lovelace-poet-of-science/

Great opportunity here! Snap it up .
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RT @McLoughlin_Lab
Post Doc position available in my lab ⁦@tcdTBSI⁩ twitter please spread the word https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CSY565/post-doctoral-research-fellow-investigating-host-microbe-interactions
https://twitter.com/McLoughlin_Lab/status/1570488466965942272

NIH plans grant-review overhaul to reduce bias, because "the 10% of institutions that receive the most money from the agency get about 65% of its overall funding for research projects, and the bottom half receives less than 5%" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04385-x

Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under #Antarctic
At base of Antarctica's #icesheet is an area size of Germany & France combined feeding #meltwater into a super-pressurized, 290mi river running to the sea. That could be bad news for #sealevelrise
https://bit.ly/3ApjLJo

Fellow librarians -- please pass around word about @libraryland.social - a Mastodon instance set up for public library workers to share ideas, inspirations, questions, announcements and the like. If you're looking for a new home to move to after landing at mastodon.social -- that might be your new home.