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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"Why won't you pay the $8?"
Five months ago, before she died, my 91-year-old great-grandmother described to me how, while her mother was taken to the gas chambers by the Nazis, she asked her mother, "Where are you going?" and "When are you coming back?" She never saw her mother again. I was literally shaking while I was listening.
Now, when I checked Twitter, I bumped into two accounts, one "verified," and the other one lost their "verification" yesterday. I'll just leave it right here...
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Norway's $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, one of the world's largest investors, said on Saturday it will vote against a resolution calling on British oil major BP to adopt tougher greenhouse gas targets.
While BP already aims to reduce emissions, the motion filed by activist group Follow This ahead of an April 27 shareholder vote calls on the company to align with the Paris climate deal's goal to limit global warming
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A shift in investigational immunotherapy targets:
"Conversely, the number of phase 1 and phase 3 trials increased by 8.8% and 6.6%, respectively. Among all trials, there was a 10.3% decrease in those using PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, whereas other targets like CTLA-4, LAG-3, and CD3 T cell-engager increased 17.9%, 36.8%, and 13.3%, respectively."
A shift in investigational immunotherapy targets:
"Conversely, the number of phase 1 and phase 3 trials increased by 8.8% and 6.6%, respectively. Among all trials, there was a 10.3% decrease in those using PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors, whereas other targets like CTLA-4, LAG-3, and CD3 T cell-engager increased 17.9%, 36.8%, and 13.3%, respectively."
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Beetle larvae preserved in amber with dinosaur feathers suggest that some ancient beetles lived in dinosaur nests and kept them tidy by eating shed feathers, in a mutualistic relationship akin to one between beetles and birds today. In PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217872120
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'Men were more likely to develop diabetes than women, the scientists found. People who were so sick that they were hospitalized were more than twice as likely to go on to a diabetes diagnosis, compared with those who were not infected.'
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"I have never seen someone my age with full-blown #autism, and I've been at the spear-tip of people with intellectual disabilities my whole life," says RFK Jr. He is now running for President.
It's shocking how dishonest this is. RFK Jr. is just a liar who is depending on his supporters being uninformed enough to believe this BS. This is a pic of me with Mark Rimland, an inspiration for Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rain Man." There's more about him in my book #NeuroTribes. #politics
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If countries want to ban TikTok, they should make privacy laws and then ban it legitimately on account of violating privacy regulations (along with many other sketchy companies' social platforms as well - yay!) instead of trying to ban it because it's Chinese.
Make privacy laws and then ban Meta and Twitter and everyone else who violates them.
'Two new books — My Father’s Brain by Sandeep Jauhar and Travellers to Unimaginable Lands by Dasha Kiper — approach the subject not from the perspective of sufferers but of those who care for them. Both authors pose the same question, but from different angles: if this isn’t the same person you have loved all these years, who is it you are really caring for?'
https://www.ft.com/content/3adfe40c-a804-4c52-847a-52c0e6f17260
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Postdoc position on engineering immune tolerance
#ScienceJobs #job
Pittsburgh #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow #Researcher
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-pittsburgh-27778-postdoc-position-on-engineering-immune-tolerance/?feed_id=43014
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RT @AlbrechtS_H
The ad is coming soon, but I am looking for a MSc or PhD student to join my lab to work with me, Gabriela Mastromonaco @TheTorontoZoo and @JGAMartin on a @MitacsCanada application for a project on the evolution of senescence in captive zoo populations. Please RT.
'Men were more likely to develop diabetes than women, the scientists found. People who were so sick that they were hospitalized were more than twice as likely to go on to a diabetes diagnosis, compared with those who were not infected.'
'Whenever Izz al-Deen Qisrawi, 4, hears a noise outside his home, he runs to the TV to check on the nine security cameras his parents installed, fearing an attack by Jewish settlers.
For two years, the Qisrawi family says, settlers living on a nearby hillside have terrorized them, surrounding their home, throwing rocks and firebombs and trying to climb over the wall outside.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/19/world/middleeast/west-bank-settler-attacks.html
'La investigadora percibiría cada año 70.000 euros en su cuenta bancaria si hacía constar esa institución árabe, la Rey Saúd de Riad, como su lugar de trabajo principal en una de las bases de datos que utiliza el influyente ranking de Shanghái para designar a las mejores universidades del planeta.'
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'Over the last almost four decades a toxic triad of immunosuppressive medicines — calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolites, steroids — has remained essentially the same with limited exceptions.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/opinion/heart-transplant-donor.html
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'In this cross-sectional study of MCAT examinees, American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, and Hispanic students reported lower parental educational levels, greater educational and financial barriers, and greater discouragement from prehealth advisers than White students.'
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2803727
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This summer program is taught by some of the most wonderful faculty @YaleSPH has to offer. It’s a whirlwind introduction to mathematical modeling, decision science and cost effectiveness. A superb opportunity to learn from the best. https://ysph.yale.edu/school-of-public-health/continuing-education/public-health-modeling/
'The Yale School of Public Health’s Summer Course in Public Health Modeling is an exciting opportunity to learn to understand and implement the latest techniques from distinguished Yale faculty and network with an international group of public health researchers.'
https://ysph.yale.edu/school-of-public-health/continuing-education/public-health-modeling/
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For this who decry critics of the expansion of #terrorism legislation as a slippery slope towards miss-policing of the public, I highlight the latest case of #Police using terrorism powers in a wholly inappropriate manner to arrest a French publisher on the grounds he took part in French street protests.
When people raise this sort of expansion of capability for arbitrary arrests, they are told they are 'scaremongering' but cases like this continue to appear!
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Leaving academia for industry? Here’s how to handle salary negotiations.
“Unlike in academia, there are manifold trajectories that a person’s career can take in industry. ‘The first step out of academia is not the last.’”
Via @nature. #STEMCareers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01299-0 [Image credit: Getty]
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
