Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@qoto.org

'Indigenous populations are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, but are rarely studied. An investigation of the immune response of Australian First Nations people to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection shows a major effect of comorbidities.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01518-w

Post-doctoral position - Oligodendroglial cells - Moyon lab @inp

Institute of NeuroPhysiopathology

Looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join a new neuroscience lab

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/institute-of-neurophysiopathology-27778-post-doctoral-position-oligodendroglial-cells-moyon-lab-inp/?feed_id=46858

#ScienceJ...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/institute-of-neurophysiopathology-27778-post-doctoral-position-oligodendroglial-cells-moyon-lab-inp/?feed_id=46858

"Basic research is ultimately what gives us the grounding for breakthroughs".

Our Magda Bienko, Group Leader in the #Genomics Research Centre, explains how and why she decided to embrace her research adventure at #HumanTechnopole to understand the architecture of human #DNA.

On @Nature Italy
 
#sciencemastodon #science #lifesciences #humangenome

https://www.nature.com/articles/d43978-023-00074-z

Thank you @snsf_ch for providing a Flexibility Grant to cover daycare costs for a postdoc in the lab. #EDI

🧐 #MeetTheSpeaker!

🔬 Hazuki Takahashi from RIKEN IMS explains how nanopore long-read #sequencing technology can change research on the #humangenome

https://youtu.be/AzoY5x_hkJs

#sciencemastodon #science #lifesciences #humantechnopole #nanopore @nanopore@genomic.social @nanopore@bird.makeup @riken_en

That revolutionary new fMRI technique for detecting neuronal activity (DIANA)? Guess what happened next.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/0EF432E4E7D84352E9B582CEC6DF07#1

bioRxiv preprints "contradictory results" are really useful. And whoever is posting them to PubPeer is perfoming a real public service, because it is difficult for readers to discover them.

Welcome move from #EMBO: "We now consider publications in #journals and #refereed #preprints equal" for the purpose of applying to be an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow.
https://www.embo.org/features/refereed-preprints-in-applications-for-embo-postdoctoral-fellowships/

Flies galore:

Robber fly, Asilinae family https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164682340

Bee fly, Bombylidae family, with an uncanny resemblance to a Calliphora fly https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164650016

Bee fly, Lomatia sp. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/164565745

#iNaturalist #Diptera #BeeFlies #Bombylidae #Asilinae #entomology #Crete #insects

New posting! This one's about optics, but nothing to do with microscopy - instead it's asking whether we should perhaps view #scientists and not knowledge as the real (primary) product of #academic #research...and whether this provides a better rationalisation of the level of societal investment. Are research papers actually a by-product?

https://totalinternalreflectionblog.com/2023/05/30/whats-the-by-product/

"The European Commission and Pfizer have agreed a deal to cut the number of Covid-19 vaccines supplied to the EU, resolving tensions between the majority of member states over paying for shots that may not be used."

https://www.ft.com/content/eb4fe823-66bd-4e1a-8b96-13b8f8c3dce9

"Hundreds of thousands of low-income Americans have lost Medicaid coverage in recent weeks as part of a sprawling unwinding of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from removing people from the program."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/us/politics/medicaid-coverage-pandemic-loss.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

'Here, we show that yeast paralogous genes are more divergent in transcription than in translation. We explore two causal mechanisms for this predominance of transcriptional divergence: an evolutionary trade-off between the precision and economy of gene expression and a larger mutational target size for transcription.'

https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010756

Martin Gardner wrote a brainteaser column for Scientific American for many years. We tested ChatGPT on his puzzles, and it turns out that if you want to solve a brainteaser, it helps to have a brain https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-can-probably-beat-chatgpt-at-these-math-brainteasers-heres-why/

3 #postdoc positions with the Sociable Weaver project:

1) fitness benefits of social associations, 2) role of cooperation in mate choice, 3) impact of fire on fitness and the mediating effects of sociality.

https://sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/postdoc/

@jobsecoevo