Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.

Just your irregular/occasional reminder that I maintain a list of #ScientificWriting #Writing resources here: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/writing-resources/. Always happy to have folks leave their favourite additions in the Replies.

Applications for the Society for Developmental Biology Choose Development! Program are open! Send your people our way, and RT for maximum reach. This is a fantastic (paid!) opportunity for URMs, First-Gen and Disabled People.

https://www.sdbonline.org/choose_development

#DevBio #CellBio #Neuroscience #Science #URM #FirstGen #Disability #UndergraduateResearch #Undergrad

New #CRISPR evidence - from the Doudna and Banfield labs here at the @igisci - to sustain Darwin's timeless quote from the Origin of Species (came out on this day in 1859):
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; ... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01366-6

NIH has a new site for anonymous secure reporting of at-home COVID test results:
https://makemytestcount.org/
more info here:
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-establishes-website-self-reporting-covid-19-test-results

Wild bats in Asia: “… we identified five viral species that are likely to be pathogenic to humans or livestock, including a novel recombinant SARS-like coronavirus that is closely related to both SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV, with only five amino acid differences between its receptor-binding domain sequence and that of the earliest sequences of SARS-CoV-2” Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.23.517609v1

NIH has established a self reporting COVID + test site

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-establishes-website-self-reporting-covid-19-test-results

#introduction

I am enjoying reading lots of different introductions over the last days so I will hop on the train as well and introduce myself! 👋

I am a PhD student at the #neuroscience for motivation, action, and desire lab working with @nbkroemer 🧠

I am broadly interested in #decisionmaking and in my PhD I am incorporating a metabolic perspective to understand how the #gutbrainaxis influences neural communication, motivation and effort. 🏋️‍♂️

Many psychiatric disorders come along with both motivational and metabolic alterations so the gut-brain perspective might help us to better understand and treat disorders like #depression #anhedonia 🎯

Mostly here for all the diverse science 💡🤩

#fmri #cognitiveneuroscience #dopamine #ghrelin

The emergence of external peer review in the mid-20th century was enabled by the photocopier.* How can new technologies further improve scientific publishing? Help us map the space in preparation for a meeting next year! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xGvFTIXgwgIzaoos6IHxWQVgcrbetqyZSt7MSgFeInI/edit#gid=0 cc @PracheeAC

(*HT Joel Plotkin, eg https://journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/Abstract/2018/03000/The_Impact_of_the_Photocopier_on_Peer_Review_and.4.aspx)

#introduction Hello world! 👋🏼 I’m a community ecologist, scientific illustrator, and educator passionate about social justice in STEM. ✊🏼 I also #LiveSketch conference talks, so give me a follow if you want to see beautifully illustrated 🎨🖌️ science 🧬🔬🧪!

Marie Tharp’s 1953 map of the Atlantic seafloor helped prove the theory of continental drift, but the male geologist she collaborated with took the credit.

Read more about her at The Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeing-believing-how-marie-tharp-changed-geology-forever-180960192/

#cartography #maps #geology #stem #gender

@CECAD

CECAD - Welcome to #ScienceMastodon! 🙂

Cologne's science community is marching in 😉

by the way: just found another Köllemoji: 😀

#aging #AgingResearch #uniklinikkoln #Metabolism #mitochondria #genetics

Okay this is cool! Long-distance membrane tension changes measured with optical traps while inducing actin protrusion at the opposite side of the cell. Just love the system! https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.07.507005v1

On the picket line (in the rain) this morning trying to ask uni's for better conditions, pay and pensions for uni staff. Hard to see how we will retain staff or encourage students this is a good career choice if things continue as is. #ExeterUCU #UCURising #UCU #FalmouthUCU

No better place to do your PhD! Cannot recommend enough :D Amazing facility, and the friendliest people. I had the best time there. Moving away from that much support is hard for me, but while I was there, I enjoyed every minute of it.
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RT @CRUK_BI
10 new #PhD studentships are now open for applications.

#FindAPhD #PhDposition

Find out more: https://beatson.gla.ac.uk/Education/Studentships/
https://twitter.com/CRUK_BI/status/1595388757695684608