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Thiago Carvalho

@cyrilpedia

I've worked on all of science, from T cells to B cells. https://fellowsherpa.com

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It is astonishingly easy to "poison" LLM training data to make it (generate output) with a higher likelihood to support your particular brand of misinformation.

10.03.2026 15:48 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

👀ICYMI: "a tipping point has been reached with more institutions now off X than on it."

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

#Bluesky #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

10.03.2026 16:01 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Diversify and conquer: Antibody feedback in the germinal center Pre-existing antibodies restrict naive B cell entry into germinal centers, but how antibody feedback shapes ongoing reactions is unclear. In this issue of Immunity, Barbulescu et al. and Yan et al. sh...

Antigen binding by locally produced high-affinity antibodies promotes epitope diversification, thereby broadening the humoral response @cp-immunity.bsky.social
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

10.03.2026 15:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Out of many, IL-1 Sick animals often show reduced social engagement, a form of adaptive behavioral distancing thought to limit pathogen transmission beyond the infected individual. In a recent issue of Cell, Yang et al...

@cp-immunity.bsky.social spotlight
Defined molecular and anatomical pathway through which inflammatory signals are sensed by the brain and translated into active social withdrawal
www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
on @cellcellpress.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

10.03.2026 15:54 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Persistent interferon signaling causes sensory neuron plasticity and pain before and during arthritis - Nature Neuroscience Su et al. show that inflammatory arthritis pain stems from sustained interferon-driven MNK1/MNK2–elF4E signaling that sensitizes joint-innervating neurons. Blocking this pathway reverses pain, suggest...

BOOM! Fantastic new paper from Patrik Ernfors and his team: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Persistent interferon signaling causes sensory neuron plasticity and pain before and during arthritis

10.03.2026 15:57 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

BREAKING: For the first time in 35 years the Ig Nobel ceremony will move to Europe. "There are no immediate plans to return the ceremony to the US."
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Food for thought for conference steering committees.

10.03.2026 09:44 👍 40 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3
How a protein pair ensures that faulty mRNA is destroyed Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is one of the most important processes in our cells to ensure that no faulty or incomplete proteins are produced. Scientists have now identified a central mechanism behind this control system.

How a protein pair ensures that faulty mRNA is destroyed

10.03.2026 09:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
poster for 'Oral History Training'. A woman holding a mic and a man sit at a table talking

poster for 'Oral History Training'. A woman holding a mic and a man sit at a table talking

Join the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive for a hands-on oral history training led by historian Kate Wilson.

Saturday 14th March, 10am – 2pm
The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow

DM me to book!

10.03.2026 09:24 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
RES advertisement for entomology courses featuring a common chaser dragonfly, Potamarcha congener (c) Sruthi Parupudi 2020

RES advertisement for entomology courses featuring a common chaser dragonfly, Potamarcha congener (c) Sruthi Parupudi 2020

New to entomology or looking to get started in #InsectScience? 🐞

Take a look at our list of institutions offering full and part-time courses in the UK and Ireland and launch your #career in #entomology 🔽

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#Research #Science #Education #Course

10.03.2026 10:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Human neuromodulatory assembloids to study serotonin signaling and disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.08.710407v1

10.03.2026 10:16 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Epstein used his ties to Nobel laureate scientists to try to rebuild his image A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

10.03.2026 10:24 👍 219 🔁 72 💬 11 📌 5
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Fungal symbioses: A multiplicity of fungi in the lichen union Increasing evidence suggests that lichens are not just a partnership between one fungus and one alga or cyanobacterium but may contain multiple intera…

Thrilled to see this published! 😄
Our dispatch examines potential additional fungal symbionts in lichen partnerships and the key challenges in unraveling their biology.

Thanks for involving me in this @talbotlabtsl.bsky.social

@currentbiology.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.03.2026 09:41 👍 27 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
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Tribunal valida despedimento de docente da UP por má conduta - JPN O Tribunal Central Administrativo Norte validou o despedimento de Pedro Cosme Vieira, professor da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (FEP), por comentários sexistas, machistas, racistas e...

O Tribunal Central Administrativo Norte validou o despedimento de Pedro Cosme Vieira, docente da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto (FEP), por comentários sexistas, machistas, racistas e xenófobos, após uma denúncia de 2021 subscrita por mais de cem alunos.

10.03.2026 10:27 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War | David Cole In January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to

“Ultimate responsibility for the Iran war lies with Trump,” writes David Cole (@davidcole-gtown.bsky.social). “But the road to it was paved by his predecessors—of both parties.”

10.03.2026 10:31 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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"In the past 24 hours at least 7 Palestinians have been killed.. a journalist has been killed, three children were also killed, this makes the death toll since the beginning of the ceasefire 648..."

Hind Khoudary reporting from Gaza a few minutes ago

10.03.2026 10:05 👍 84 🔁 65 💬 2 📌 2

Very happy to serve a society journal!

10.03.2026 09:42 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Netanyahu warns 'we are not done yet' in Iran Follow developments in the Middle East as Iran vows to fight "as long as needed" and Israel's Prime Minister warns Israel's offensive against Iran was "not done yet".

Some schoolchildren are still alive...

www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

10.03.2026 10:43 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A Threads post by laptop_lasane that reads "Um... what's happening in Manhattan?"
A reply by Micah_Walsh reads "JP Morgan selected a new Epstein"

A Threads post by laptop_lasane that reads "Um... what's happening in Manhattan?" A reply by Micah_Walsh reads "JP Morgan selected a new Epstein"

Again, Bsky needs far more powerful posts.

10.03.2026 10:43 👍 100 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
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Petite histoire de la grande financiarisation de l’industrie pharmaceutique Le système international s’est radicalement transformé depuis les années 1980. Les Etats-Unis ont adopté une série de lois et réglementations afin de transformer progressivement les brevets des médicaments en actifs financiers.

Petite histoire de la grande financiarisation de l’industrie pharmaceutique

10.03.2026 10:44 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Von der Leyen anuncia nova política externa que rompe com direito internacional Presidente da Comissão Europeia diz que devemos estar preparados "para projetar o nosso poder de forma mais assertiva" e dá luz verde aos Estados Unidos da América no ataque ao Irão. Catarina Martins responde que não é a von der Leyen que cabe definir a política externa da UE e dos estados-membros e que os tratados afirmam o respeito pelo direito internacional.

Von der Leyen anuncia nova política externa que rompe com direito internacional

10.03.2026 10:45 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Black people up to 48 times more likely to be stopped and searched in richest areas of London Exclusive: Research found extreme disproportion in use of police power in districts such as Richmond-upon-Thames

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
But the #Met is not institutionally racist, oh no.

10.03.2026 10:43 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christians should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

10.03.2026 10:26 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2

Nice overview of another cool #smFRET study, this time unpicking protein folding dynamics @timcraggs.bsky.social @ei-science.bsky.social

10.03.2026 06:41 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Dune Popcorn Bucket - SNL
Dune Popcorn Bucket - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

Sooner or later this will get to the Dune Popcorn Bucket

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_X...

10.03.2026 06:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Teachers’ Guide to How to Find a Rainbow “This charming story can be read on two levels – that of two sisters in search of a physical rainbow and that of emerging from a gloomy emotional episode and beginning to find joy again.  It o…

Primary Teachers! I’m giving a science week talk this morning about the behaviour of light, based on my book “How to Find a Rainbow” and using some quite magical science demonstrations! You could do something similar (you don’t need me) using the resources here:

10.03.2026 06:45 👍 15 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 2
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Guerre en Iran : socialistes français et espagnols parlent-ils la même langue ? Votre histoire politique, Yaël Goosz : pourquoi la gauche française regarde de l’autre côté des Pyrénées…

Retrouvez mon #HistoirePol : #GuerreIran La gauche française, entre effet drapeau derrière ⁦‪⁦‪@Elysee‬⁩ et effet ⁦‪⁦‪@sanchezcastejon‬⁩ (Pedro Sanchez, Premier ministre espagnol)… ⁦‪@faureolivier‬⁩ ⁦‪@Villepin‬⁩ ⁦‪@JLMelenchon‬⁩

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

10.03.2026 06:45 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away.

❝ Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away ❞ — DIANA BUTTU

10.03.2026 05:33 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

cc @danmucida.bsky.social

10.03.2026 06:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amid Trump trying to get Latin America on board with expanded military action against cartels, the USS Nimitz, on its final voyage to where it will be decommissioned, is doing a deployment around South America.

10.03.2026 05:57 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Some background to this, and an example I think of Phil's attitudes towards fostering students and encouraging others. I never got a chance to meet Phil in person, but will share his act of generosity that helped myself and @hdashnow.bsky.social and I think had in indelible mark on our careers. 1/8

10.03.2026 05:54 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1