Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
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Flies galore, of the parasitoid kind:
Tachinid fly, Gymnostoma rotundanum http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165099855 . The #Tachinidae lay eggs on the surface of their host—often other insects—with such strong glue that removing the egg would kill the host. Often even drop larvae directly on the hosts.
Thick-headed fly, Physocephala visatta http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165098840 The #Conopidae are internal parasites of bees and wasps—intercepting them in mid flight, the female’s abdomen has a “can opener” to insert an egg between the abdominal tergites of the host.
Beefly, Lasiopa sp. http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165105614 The #Bombylidae drop their eggs while in flight near the entrance of solitary bee nests. The larvae crawl in and take over the bee’s resources of nectar and pollen, either starving or directly eating the bee larva.
All the adults happily sip nectar; the larvae, meanwhile, rival parasitoid wasps in their lifestyle and effectiveness.
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Fascinating Macro Footage of Growing Tadpoles https://laughingsquid.com/macro-footage-tadpoles/
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RT @BlocoDeEsquerda: "A vida não pode ser uma luta para conseguir o básico. As pessoas da minha idade vivem com medo do futuro: vivem em casa dos pais ou dividem casa".
➡️ Pode ver a entrevista completa de @MRMortagua em https://www.rtp.pt/play/p11147/e695736/grande-entrevista https://t.co/FnUuSLqiWP
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1664560750117920770
'Old and newly synthesized histones are asymmetrically distributed and inherited in Drosophila intestinal stem cell divisions. Disruption of asymmetric histone inheritance compromises stem cell differentiation, indicating a role in regulating cell fates in adult stem lineages in vivo.'
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PhD position
Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University
Come explore the evolution and ecology of RNA viruses using computational approaches in my lab at Vilnius University in Lithuania.
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/life-sciences-center-vilnius-university-27778-phd-position/?feed_id=47040
#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #phylogenetics #bioinformatics #virusev...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/life-sciences-center-vilnius-university-27778-phd-position/?feed_id=47040
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Wonderful interview with the incredible @VirusesImmunity Completely agree we are not done with covid- long covid must be recognised by our political leaders and treatments and research funded and we need a plan to safely live with covid. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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PhD position in stroke recovery and brain imaging
University of Geneva
Come join the Stroke Research lab (carreralab.com) @unige_en as a pHD student to investigate a new therapeutic approach to promote stroke recovery !
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-geneva-27778-phd-position-in-stroke-recovery-and-brain-imaging/?feed_id=47047
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https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-geneva-27778-phd-position-in-stroke-recovery-and-brain-imaging/?feed_id=47047
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Human embryo implantation
Read this #OpenAccess Review from Joanne Muter, Vincent Lynch, Rajiv McCoy,
Jan Brosens from the University of Warwick, examining the foundational processes of pregnancy from an evolutionary perspective:
https://journals.biologists.com/dev/article/150/10/dev201507/310869/Human-embryo-implantation
'This is also a broader issue. The UK’s share of global pharma R&D has dropped sharply since 2012, from 7.7 per cent to 4.2 per cent in 2020. Manufacturing has fallen since 2015, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, along with exports. '
https://www.ft.com/content/aed6c929-6eeb-4f6d-bce7-d36445fc5ebf
'All over Europe, the police made the mistake of assuming that the next revolutionary outbreak would be the work of a handful of trained conspirators. The explosion of almost spontaneous mass uprisings by ‘the people’ – the pattern of 1848 – took governments, liberal reformers and even Count Metternich, the supreme architect of Europe’s post-1815 order, by surprise'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n11/neal-ascherson/kings-grew-pale
'The essential problem is that human language is not just about saying what and where things are and which qualities they harbor, such as being green or tall. Language is about what happened, what’s different, what’s on the move. At its core, language is all about the action — to wit, the verbs.'
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A Myrmeleontidae: antlions, from the Neuroptera order of antlions and owlflies. This order of insects of course contains neither ants, nor lions, owls, or flies—a staple in entomology to name unusual insects with compound names drawing from other animals—e.g., snakeflies, sawflies, and more.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165100160
The antlion name honors the behaviour of their larvae, which live in ground burrows and trap passing ants with their fearsome mandibles.
#iNaturalist #Antlions #Myrmeleontidae #Neuroptera #entomology #insects #Crete
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Scientists say they can’t rely on Twitter anymore (@yang3kc quoted by @Verge) https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23739084/twitter-elon-musk-api-policy-chilling-academic-research
'At best, Brenner says, scientists can develop therapies that maintain the health of older people and help keep them out of the hospital—an increasingly important goal as the average age in the United States and elsewhere keeps climbing. Brenner is tackling this problem as the chief scientific advisor of a bioscience company called ChromaDex, which markets supplements for “healthy aging.” But believing we can rewrite the operating manual for lifespan itself, Brenner told me, is like “believing in the tooth fairy.”
'We posit that future models purporting to explain the etiology of mammalian mutagenesis need to capture the fact that more closely related species have more similar mutation spectra; a model that fits each marginal spectrum with high cosine similarity is not guaranteed to capture this hierarchy of mutation spectrum variation among species.'
#preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.31.543114v1
Outra grande ideia do Moedas:
'Sobretudo esta ideia de tirar os pobres do centro da cidade e juntá-los a outros pobres que vivem em bairros sociais é uma ideia errada e ultrapassada de cidade. Estigmatizar cada vez mais os bairros carenciados e limpar as zonas privilegiadas da cidade do mau aspeto de quem literalmente não tem onde cair morto. Como é que ainda estamos aqui?'
https://www.publico.pt/2023/06/02/opiniao/opiniao/arrumar-pobres-devido-lugar-2051888
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Communication consumes 35 times more energy than computation in the human cortex
The brain is the hungriest organ in the body (using 20% of all energy consumed). But most of it is not used for "computing"; it's used to send messages around.
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The billionaire Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma will pay $6B & serve 0 prison for knowingly selling horrendous amounts of OxyContin while claiming it was non-addictive—resulting in 564K+ American deaths by Opioid overdose.😓 And that doesn’t even begin to contemplate the global harm and deaths the Sackler family caused.
And for all that suffering and atrocity—not one person will go to prison. Not one.
“If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.”
'What particularly impressed Tolstoy’s contemporaries was his seemingly superhuman ability to trace Prince Andrei’s thoughts after he loses the ability to communicate with others. “How does Count Tolstoy know [all] this?” asked the novelist Konstantin Leontiev. “He did not rise from the dead and visit us after his resurrection.” And yet he convinces readers that, yes, it could really be just this way.'
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/06/22/death-and-the-hedgehog-tolstoy-as-philosopher/
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@lightweight
Something is rotten in the state of our universities. I suspect it has a lot to do with the consequences of the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s/90s, and the rise of managerialism that David Graeber (RIP) wrote about:
https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
