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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April news! ✨ #RStats
🚀 R-Universe docs get a boost from Google Season of Docs
👋 Help us put together the rOpenSci Community Call calendar for the year!
📢 Our social media campaigns about packages
📆 Upcoming coworking sessions: "Meet our new Executive Director" in May, TBD in June.
🔊 🌳 New packages {baRulho}, {fellingdater}
📦 Package news
🗒️ Blog posts
👋 Calls for contributions
🧰 Package Development corner
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/04/22/ropensci-news-april-2024
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A very important point: don't count on the reviewer connecting the dots on her/his/their own (or consulting any information other than what is in your application package).
"3. Your Specific Aims story needs to be cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps."
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'Although a single dose of ketamine was shown to improve depression symptoms in approximately 65% of patients, the treatment does not work for a significant portion of patients. Understanding why ketamine does not work for everyone could help to identify which patients would benefit most from the treatment.'
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'Five days earlier, with far less comment or condemnation, Berlin police forcibly shut down a conference on Palestine. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, rector of Glasgow University, and a reconstructive surgeon who was due to talk of his experiences in Gazan hospitals, was prohibited from entering Germany.'
"Researchers and clinicians often view GLP-1 agonists as lifelong treatments. But myriad factors can force individuals off the medications. People might lose the means to pay for the costly drugs, experience brutal side effects, be affected by continuing shortages or be offered limited-term prescriptions. The UK National Health Service (NHS), for instance, provides only two years of coverage for people taking the drugs for weight loss."
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New Hampshire’s GOP Is Taking a Stand
—Against the Polio Vaccine
The Granite State could be the first to ditch polio and measles requirements for childcare
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"Looking at the early findings of [the basic income for artists] pilot a compelling case is already emerging to justify rolling out this basic income to all artists – and make no mistake – this is my absolute goal.”
Universal basic income will spark the next Renaissance.
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'Despite being born and raised in Brazil, which has the highest number of people living with HTLV-1 in the world, I had never heard of this virus before. This may resonate with many readers who might be thinking “What is HTLV-1?” or “I’ve never heard of HTLV-1 either”'
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01652-7
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'A good rule of thumb is the first draft of any section must come from you. Because of how these LLMs are trained, their output is not guaranteed to be original or scientifically valid. So, while it can be tempting to ask the LLM to generate an initial draft for you starting from an idea or a couple of sentences, avoiding the dreaded “blank page,” we do not recommend engaging with the AI until you have a draft and are ready to start the revision stage of the writing process. This advice applies both to the entire grant and to individual sections. Ultimately, your grant must reflect you as a scientist—your scientific ideas, your preliminary data, and your novel approach, described in your own words.'
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011863
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"Productive communities share and exchange resources sans friction or boundaries. For productive cancer teams, this includes sharing ideas, data and algorithms, biospecimens, dollars, and even personnel. Although funders may assume that barriers to sharing are based on attitudes, we experience barriers to sharing in the form of structures imposed by institutions and institutional review boards, such as material transfer agreements, human subjects obligations, conflicts of interest, etc. At best, these institutional structures require significant resources and commitment to overcome. At worst, they create regular and repeated sources of friction and can effectively paralyze collaboration."
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"The current attacks on theater in American schools have their origins in a struggle that took place in the late 1930s, when America’s political leadership believed that the arts, no less than industry and agriculture, were vital to the health of the Republic and deserving of its financial support."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion/high-school-theater-banned.html
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Cf. Homage to Catalonia
"Add up support for the four main progressive parties, which are running separate European campaigns, and their combined share of the vote comes within touching distance of the RN."
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Anti-abortion states are targeting an emergency healthcare law. Will the supreme court side with them? | US supreme court | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/21/emtala-supreme-court-abortion
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Visiting @madparreira.bsky.social's monkey in Kyoto (great display, the monkey is the lid of the pot).
'A good rule of thumb is the first draft of any section must come from you. Because of how these LLMs are trained, their output is not guaranteed to be original or scientifically valid. So, while it can be tempting to ask the LLM to generate an initial draft for you starting from an idea or a couple of sentences, avoiding the dreaded “blank page,” we do not recommend engaging with the AI until you have a draft and are ready to start the revision stage of the writing process. This advice applies both to the entire grant and to individual sections. Ultimately, your grant must reflect you as a scientist—your scientific ideas, your preliminary data, and your novel approach, described in your own words.'
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011863
"Productive communities share and exchange resources sans friction or boundaries. For productive cancer teams, this includes sharing ideas, data and algorithms, biospecimens, dollars, and even personnel. Although funders may assume that barriers to sharing are based on attitudes, we experience barriers to sharing in the form of structures imposed by institutions and institutional review boards, such as material transfer agreements, human subjects obligations, conflicts of interest, etc. At best, these institutional structures require significant resources and commitment to overcome. At worst, they create regular and repeated sources of friction and can effectively paralyze collaboration."
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#OtD 21 Apr 1873 the Frankfurt Beer Riots began. The riots were a response to the 12.5% increase in the price of beer, and the police called in the army. Several died, a red flag was raised, and many were injured and arrested, but the price was reduced https://t.co/ycFOswN1lr
'Despite being born and raised in Brazil, which has the highest number of people living with HTLV-1 in the world, I had never heard of this virus before. This may resonate with many readers who might be thinking “What is HTLV-1?” or “I’ve never heard of HTLV-1 either”'
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01652-7
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#GoodMorning #Mastodon, it is time to get back to the #books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes,_RP-P-OB-55.341.jpg
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
