Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

“We might have lost a fight, but we have not lost the war.”

I talked to Philippe Barboza at the WHO and others about the massive surge in #cholera cases the world is witnessing and why the #vaccine stockpile is falling short...

#globalhealth

https://www.science.org/content/article/vaccines-are-short-supply-amid-global-cholera-surge

The myth of Elon Musk as a genius building a better future for everyone is falling apart — and it’s about time!

As I wrote in Time a few months ago, we need to realize he hasn’t just taken a bad turn in the past few months. He’s always been selling us a lie, and nothing shows that better than his fake transport projects that distracted from real solutions.

His downfall can’t come soon enough.

https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/

#elonmusk #tech #transport #future

✨Have you ever seen a bird fly without its head moving?

The Eurasian Kestrel has a natural ability to stabilize its head, allowing it to stay focused on its prey as it moves. 🪶

Look at this slow-motion close-up of a kestrel hovering.

🎥@leedsbirder@twitter.com

Quando as mulheres grávidas têm dificuldades em ser atendidas e fazer ecografias obstétricas de 2º e 3º trimestre, o Governo equaciona introduzir taxas moderadoras. Esta política para o SNS é grave e perigosa.

https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2022-11-30-Ministro-da-Saude-vai-decidir-se-as-gravidas-vao-pagar-taxas-por-urgencias-injustificadas-a0081253

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/joseggusmao/status/1597981155747254272

Ancient Roman Coins Reveal the Existence of a Forgotten Roman Emperor

https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/ancient-roman-coins-reveal-the-existence-of-a-forgotten-roman-emperor.html

It’s only one week until our #Devpres webinar on metabolism, featuring talks from Natalia López Anguita, Hannah Brunsdon and Benjamin Jackson, chaired by Irene Miguel-Aliaga.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9516643589483/WN_GD8V4J48RFGjh2nc5YDtmw

Metabolic and nutritional control of development and regeneration is also the topic of our next special issue. For more info: https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/metabolism

#devbio #devbiol #DevSImetabolism

“The entire Twitter information security community has moved to Mastodon.” https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

If you're heading to #CellBio2022
@ASCBiology , look for three exciting presentations from our lab, by postdocs Anja Schmidt
and Maik Bischoff, and research tech Noah Gurley 1/4

"The Vertue of the COFFEE Drink": An Ad for London’s First Cafe Printed Circa 1652

https://www.openculture.com/2012/07/the_vertue_of_the_coffee_drink_londons_first_cafe_creates_ad_for_coffee_in_the_1650s.html

All roads lead to Rome. Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through early modern German speaking Europe. The map was printed as a single-sheet item, and was made in Nuremberg for the Holy Year 1500.

Etzlaub wanted his "Rom-Weg" map to be bought, so he offered colored versions too, like the one you see, because these were more expensive.

#MapHistory #BookHistory #histodons

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Germinal centre of the day

Today those police-defunding leftists on the City of San Francisco board of supervisors voted to let cops use robots to kill people by blowing them up.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/San-Francisco-approves-lethal-robots-17619556.php

Our collaborators at the University of Copenhagen are looking to hire 2 postdocs in #sustainable #MachineLearning.
Start date: 1 April 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter

https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentId=18970&ProjectId=158002

Fantastic to learn that the Leverhulme Trust is going to fund masters and PhD studentships for under-represented students to increase access to research careers. Bravo! 👏

We're losing too many excellent undergraduate students from research in the UK because they can't afford to complete masters courses now often required for admission to PhD studies.

(With a 2.i and no access to funds for a masters I would be unlikely to get on a PhD scheme now!)

#EDI #firstgenacademics #researchfunding

@cyrilpedia This is cool and reminds me of the work by the Singer lab, showing that Lck association with co-receptors drives MHC restriction. I still find it surprising that thymocytes with 'free' Lck can yield MHC-independent, thymocyte development.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3792650/

#Introduction

I'm a professor at a public university, cell biologist and geneticist who studies chromosome segregation in C. elegans during both development (mitosis) and sexual reproduction (meiosis).

I am also a passionate and committed advocate for equity in academic science

I enjoy my work, in all its forms, food (eating and cooking) and cocktails (in all its forms, but particularly the brown varieties 🥃 ).

What up, y'all?

Seven #European institutions have joined forces to create a #database of 34,000 new images of #medieval items, including #manuscripts, #books, and $coins. With a collection of over 600 medieval manuscripts, the #digitized objects are now #online and available for the general public in the Europeana Web Portal
#History
https://aleteia.org/2022/11/25/30000-medieval-items-are-available-online-for-the-first-time/