Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

I’m a #cognitive and human #neuroscientist at #CarnegieMellon studying #logic and #concepts across species, age, and culture to try to find out #whatmakesushuman.
A few years ago, when I worked at a different university, a bunch of us were whistleblowers and it caused the president of the university to resign #metoo

#introduction I am an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island. I study spinal cord physiology and pathophysiology. My specialty is intracellular recordings of spinal motoneurons in vivo.
I am a pro #OpenScience and #OpenSource #FOSS. I love to write software (badly) and tinker with electronics (generally until the magic smoke comes out).

#MastodonNews Dec 15, 2022

Forbes: Twitter Suspends Accounts For Rival Mastodon And Several High-Profile Journalists >>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/12/15/twitter-suspends-accounts-for-rival-mastodon-and-several-high-profile-journalists/

Business Insider: Musk's Twitter is blocking links to its competitor Mastodon >>> https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-blocks-links-to-mastodon-competitor-elon-musk-2022-12

Bloomberg.com: Twitter Suspends Accounts of Mastodon, Journalists Covering Musk >>> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-16/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-mastodon-journalists-covering-musk

Techdirt: Elon's... Blatant Hypocrisy >>> https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/15/elons-commitment-to-free-speech-rapidly-replaced-by-his-commitment-to-blatant-hypocrisy-bans-the-joinmastodon-account/

#twittermigration
More News >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

Ovarian cancer mutational processes drive site-specific immune evasion https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05496-1

A fantastic group of authors, spearheaded by the amazing
@RebeccaSenft and Barbara Diaz-Rohrer
, have a new preprint for your end-of-year-reading lists! In the 🧵, learn a bit more about "A biologist's guide to the field of quantitative bioimaging"
https://zenodo.org/record/7439284#.Y5s_POzMI0R 1/x

Thrilled to finally have our paper looking at the role of spatial structure in polymicrobial infections out today in @PNASNews! https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2212340119
#ChronicWounds #MRSA #Pseudomonas #SpatialStructure

Many years later--in fact, not until 1983--McClintock would win the #NobelPrize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and gene transposition. Here's McClintock holding an ear of maize:

[pic from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock#/media/File:McClintock.jpg]

OK, this is an experiment posting longer pieces to #ScienceMastodon, so consider this 1/n.

I wanted to share a fascinating piece of #ScienceHistory that I stumbled across not long ago while rummaging through old papers from early #genetics labs at the University of Texas. Deep in boxes of classic reprints, I found correspondence between Barbara McClintock, the famed Cold Spring Harbor labs maize geneticist, and UT fly geneticist Wilson Stone.

Let’s take a moment and share the new and incredible US Postal Service Stamp honoring John Lewis while everyone is talking about Trump’s shitty cards.

Continuing the holiday celebration on Day 2 (of 10). Topic: Modern and fascinating ideas about the brain for us all to discuss. How likely is each idea to be true? And if true, what are the implications?

Brain idea 9: Across different individuals, the same brain functions are implemented by biological details that vary a lot. This is true even for simple circuits like the ones that control the stomach of a crab, where the numbers of ion channels can vary 2-6x across different crabs but the circuit always does the same thing.

The friendly version:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/eve-marder-on-the-crucial-resilience-of-neurons-20210517/

The deeper dive:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438822001040

#neuroscience
(And because I'm trying to work out the hashtag habit here ...)
#BrainIdeasCountdown

Physicist Freeman Dyson was born #OTD in 1923.

He was known for his work in quantum electrodynamics and – among many other things – his eschatological musings about physics and the prospects for life in the far-flung future.

To the best of my knowledge, Dyson was the most prominent physicist of the modern era who never completed a PhD.

Photo: Heka Davis / AIP

Agree with paper presenting #EBI resources: #biocuration and #metadata are critical for "training sets for deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications" in the life sciences #bioinformatics #machinelearning
https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkac1098/6880745

A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText

FDA approves first drug to delay type 1 diabetes ⁦@cyrilpedia⁩ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41591-022-00115-y

A small study in France showed a 10% vaccine failure rate in people who got a single dose of #mpox vaccine after an exposure event. People who developed the infection had mild symptoms. In Eurosurveillance. https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.50.2200882?emailalert=true