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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The US is into state & county fair season — locales where #H5N1 #birdflu could spread, if infected cows are brought to show. @STAT's Eric Boodman went to Iowa's Winneshiek County Fair to see if farm folk are fussed. In the main, they are not. https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/16/bird-flu-dairy-cattle-biosecurity-county-fairs/
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The Democratic Chickenshit Caucus Is Stupid https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2024/07/16/the-democratic-chickenshit-caucus-is-stupid/
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Where I am the target of legal threats attempting to silence scientific debate. Please share.
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/07/16/kavli-prize-winner-threatens-to-sue-critic-for-defamation/
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Nothing to see here. Just an oligarch trying to buy the election.
(If Biden wins and the Democrats take Congress, a wealth tax on billionaires is a real possibility. That might bother Elon Musk a little.)
'Japan now counts over a thousand varieties of miso, and each region is synonymous with a local recipe: Edo sweet red miso in Tokyo (the city being previously known as Edo) and sweet white miso in Kyoto. In the Chūkyō region it’s dark brown and bitter; in Kyushu it’s made with barley (mugi). As Kazutoshi Endo, chef-patron of the Michelin-starred London sushi restaurant Endo at the Rotunda, puts it, “miso equals culture”.'
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"For all its practical value, sequencing in itself offers little advance in understanding how the genome – or life itself – works. As the veteran molecular biologist Sydney Brenner wrote in 2010, the comparison with the Apollo programme turns out to be ‘literally correct’:
because sending a man to the moon is easy; it’s getting him back that is difficult and expensive. Today the human genome sequence is, so to speak, stranded on a metaphorical moon and it is our task to bring it back to Earth and give it the life it deserves."
https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-new-metaphors-that-put-life-at-the-centre-of-biology
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'That potential has not materialized. Just 19 stem-cell transplants using a child’s own cord blood have been reported since 2010, according to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. Newer research has led many doctors to abandon cord blood in favor of adult stem cells.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/health/cord-blood-storage-contamination.html
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The right wing gaslighters are out in force to stop you from talking about their attacks on democracy, human rights, the environment, and so much else.
Don't let them intimidate you.
'Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.'
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*This "superhuman" rhetoric really gets in the way here. LLMs don't break because they're more-human or less-human, they break because they are Large Language Models.
'With Aeschylus, it’s a happy ending. There’s peace. Orestes is pardoned. But Euripides takes the same plot and writes it in a completely contrary way. Orestes is not pardoned. He and Electra are condemned to death by stoning. They run amok, storm the palace and burn the whole city down. It reminds me a lot of the storming of the U.S. Capitol. We have the dream of Aeschylus and the nightmare of Euripides. It’s like pieces of a puzzle that don’t fit together, and that interests me.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/arts/salzburg-festival-greek-tragedy.html
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What to Know About JD Vance, Trump's 'Anti-Gen Z' VP Pick
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/everything-you-need-to-know-about-jd-vance-trumps-vp-pick
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@Greengordon @michaelgemar @Krooney @BrianJopek
Silicon Valley is funding Trump for a variety of reasons, tax evasion, deregulation, a hatred of democracy, a love of murderous despots like Putin & MBS, but most of all, to continue perpetrating frauds that enrich the already rich.
AI is an overhyped balloon waiting to pop.
Cryptocurrency is an energy-guzzling scam with national security implications.
NFT's are a money laundering ponzi scheme.
'That potential has not materialized. Just 19 stem-cell transplants using a child’s own cord blood have been reported since 2010, according to the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research. Newer research has led many doctors to abandon cord blood in favor of adult stem cells.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/health/cord-blood-storage-contamination.html
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Assistant Professor position of Microbial Genetics
Texas Tech University
The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a 9-month tenure-track Ass
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/texas-tech-university-27778-assistant-professor-position-of-microbial-genetics/?feed_i...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/texas-tech-university-27778-assistant-professor-position-of-microbial-genetics/?feed_id=78126
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PLOS Computational Biology announces the return of the PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize program.
Public nominations are open until Aug 16 in search of the community’s favorite PLOS Comp. Biol. Research Articles published in 2023 in the following three categories:
- Breakthrough Advance/Innovation/Insight
- Exemplary Methods/Software
- Public Impact
Form for nominations: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg_avTJPkq2y6WSuS2tqdz_a5dQ7nF_Oz6uEeo_cUuqGplCg/viewform
previous winners: https://collections.plos.org/collection/compbiol-research-prize/
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Another day, another…
“Authorities in Birmingham, #Alabama, on Sunday night were hunting for suspects in two fatal #shootings that killed a combined seven people and wounded 10 others on Saturday.
Both shootings occurred within a span of less than six hours on Saturday in the city, with no suspects in police custody as of late Sunday.” #GunViolence
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/07/15/two-fatal-Birmingham-shooting/9571721015559/
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Crowd Preprint Review activities have already started, but you can still sign up to join!
☑️ develop reviewing skills,
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We accept reviewer applications on a rolling basis!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePY3I9EateaNXy-_FR9D_jLcuUvYniAAeV0VvfuSnXQhRCAQ/viewform
"For all its practical value, sequencing in itself offers little advance in understanding how the genome – or life itself – works. As the veteran molecular biologist Sydney Brenner wrote in 2010, the comparison with the Apollo programme turns out to be ‘literally correct’:
because sending a man to the moon is easy; it’s getting him back that is difficult and expensive. Today the human genome sequence is, so to speak, stranded on a metaphorical moon and it is our task to bring it back to Earth and give it the life it deserves."
https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-new-metaphors-that-put-life-at-the-centre-of-biology
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“The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself…to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”
Gorgeous read from Iris Murdoch, born on this day in 1919 https://t.co/NT5ZGoml5M
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
Joined Nov 2022
