'The protest was started by Ilaria Lamera, an engineering student at Milan Polytechnic, before spreading to Rome and other cities including Florence, Bologna, Padua and Cagliari. Lamera had been commuting to university from her home town of Bergamo and when she started looking for a room to rent in Milan struggled to find one for below €600 (£520).'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/12/italy-students-protest-over-cost-housing-high-rents
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"Using adenoviral and transgenic approaches to label neurons, we show robust protein biotinylation in neuronal soma and axons throughout the brain, allowing quantitation of over 2000 neuron-derived proteins spanning synaptic proteins, transporters, ion channels and disease-relevant druggable targets."
'Because semiautomatic weapons are illegal in Serbia, the state was able to respond quickly. The authorities did make some early blunders. Education Minister Branko Ružić traced the causes of the shootings to “video games” and “so-called Western values,” and was compelled to resign within four days. Police requested that schools in Kikinda and Užice deliver lists of “problematic and asocial” children (a request the schools rightly refused). But it took only a day for President Aleksander Vučić to deliver a speech promising swift action to protect public safety and to reduce ownership of illegal firearms by 90 percent.'
'Compassionate collection involves minimizing harm while collecting museum data in the field. By adopting this practice, natural history museums could better maintain existing collections, accommodate more nonlethal specimens and data, and foster an inclusive community.'
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002101
Hi everyone 👋! Another #introduction as I just moved instance.
I am an Associate Prof. at Harvard Medical School, and am interested in figuring out how the brain works 🧠. In particular, how do its neural dynamics implement the probabilistic computations required for efficient behavior? We ask this question from the theoretical perspective 💻, using tools from machine learning and physics, and collaborate with experimentalists 🐭🙈👤 to test the arising theories.
In the past I have worked a lot on decision-making - both perceptual and value-based - normative models for the speed-accuracy trade-off, and how this relates to decision confidence and attention. Currently, we are looking into probabilistic reasoning about more structured objects, like hierarchies, and at efficient navigation in light of uncertain sensory information.
Happy to be here!
This study is out today, and is open access:
https://rupress.org/jem/article/220/8/e20221816/214115/Dietary-protein-shapes-the-profile-and-repertoire?searchresult=1
'Comparison of Xenopus species that evolved through polyploidization revealed that metabolic differences emerged during development when cell size scaled with genome size. Thus, ploidy affects metabolism by altering the cell surface area to volume ratio in a multicellular organism.'
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00391-3
Promoting work-life balance and #diversity in #science is a priority of the ERC Scientific Council.
Listen to @AnnaLauraPisell share how ERC parental leave rules helped her navigate parenthood & her scientific career.
More info 👉 https://erc.europa.eu/apply-grant/parental-leave
@UniperugiaNews
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ERC_Research/status/1658442408449957888
'Compassionate collection involves minimizing harm while collecting museum data in the field. By adopting this practice, natural history museums could better maintain existing collections, accommodate more nonlethal specimens and data, and foster an inclusive community.'
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002101
'I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a zoning-board meeting where folks are debating affordable housing. It shows you just how much work and effort and force goes into defending segregation. The folks who show up for those meetings are really not representative of the broader community. They tend to be whiter, more affluent, more likely to be homeowners. It’s this interesting thing wherein a democratic process has an undemocratic outcome, because representation in this case is a defense of the status quo.'
In which @madparreira made a fully wearable dress out of paper - and then printed it!
Don't be the infamous Reviewer 2!
Instead, give your colleagues helpful feedback on the manuscript and contribute to making a positive change in #science!
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Write #preprint reviews following FAST principles https://osf.io/9wdcq/
Post the reviews as citable objects using a service such as @prereview, Qeios, or
@science_open.
Your #preprint review may be a review requested by a journal editor (👉https://asapbio.org/publishyourreviews ) or those you decide to write independently.
Another entry in our 'not all good wines are Portuguese' series, courtesy of my gracious host in Nice, @miguelgf
Annals of Internal Medicine: Masks should continue to be worn in healthcare settings.
#COVID #BringBackMasks https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1190
"To enable detection of which cells upregulate MHC pathways in vivo, we generated two novel MHC I and MHC II reporter mouse lines that express tdTomato when these pathways are activated, and used these lines to define their incidence and transcriptional characteristics in two mouse models of inflammatory demyelination."
#Neuroimmunology
How do veiled chameleons make their left and right sides? What is it like working with veiled chameleons?
Read the #behindthepaper story from Dr. Natalia (Natasha) Shylo, Dr. Paul Trainor and colleagues at Stowers Institute for Medical Research:
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"Using adenoviral and transgenic approaches to label neurons, we show robust protein biotinylation in neuronal soma and axons throughout the brain, allowing quantitation of over 2000 neuron-derived proteins spanning synaptic proteins, transporters, ion channels and disease-relevant druggable targets."
Study from Dana Pe'er and Scott Lowe's labs. Direna Alonso and Cassandra Burdziak show how genetic and environmental events interact to drive tumorigenesis in #PDAC #cancer
Now published: doi.org/10.1126/science.add5327
Lot's of computational innovation in there as well: Quantifying cellular plasticity, a module view on cell cell communication etc.
It was awesome to be part of the team!
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com