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

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No. No no no.

No.

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'Imagine my surprise when I received reviews on a submitted paper declaring that it was the work of ChatGPT. One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual”. Surprise was just one emotion I experienced; I also felt shock, dismay and a flood of confusion and alarm. Given how much work I put into writing, it was a blow to be accused of being a chatbot — especially without any evidence.'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_PCOM_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO

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'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-08-25/column-scientists-used-to-love-twitter-thanks-to-elon-musk-theyre-giving-up-on-it

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"I am honored to be a banned book whenever it happens, because I look at the history of books that have been banned; the history of who bans them. I will never be on the side of the people who ban the books. I'm on the other side. I will always be on the side of the libraries."
@neilhimself

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/

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"Here, we present our view of how IL-2-based biologicals can boost the antitumor response at a cellular level, and propose that the role of Tregs following such treatments may have been previously overestimated."

https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(23)00195-3

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'But, as we have been learning pretty much continuously since 2000, the will of the majority of the American people no longer matters all that much in who is running their country.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/18/donald-trump-could-win-contingent-election

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Madalena (right) and Audrey II (she gets bigger.

https://madalenaparreira.com/set-design

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I love Current Biology - probably my favorite journal ever since I haunted the university library waiting for each new issue to read Sidney Brenner's Loose Ends. But maybe "Free Vaginas" is not the best layout option for their webpage.

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"The NLOS that spits out the Transplant Benefit Scores is one of dozens of algorithms in use in healthcare systems around the world. These applied statistical systems are used by physicians and hospitals to aid decisions such as who receives heart surgery and organ transplantation, which patients are at the highest risk of surgical complications, and in diagnosing cancers and brain injury. The intent behind predictive algorithms, like the NLOS, is to make consequential decisions fairer."

https://www.ft.com/content/5125c83a-b82b-40c5-8b35-99579e087951

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'Half of the study’s participants received a single invitation for a PSA test. After 15 years there was little difference in the number of men who died from prostate cancer, whether or not they had received the test, according to the research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Saturday.'

https://www.ft.com/content/b34a46b5-3986-4333-bec3-1fa516bb422d

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"The most important challenge is that of fairness or “linguistic justice”. A common language is a bit like a telephone network: the more people know a language, the more useful it becomes to communicate. The question of fairness arises because individuals face very different costs to access the network and are on an unequal footing when using it. Those who learn English as a second language incur learning costs, while native speakers can communicate with all network members without incurring such costs. It’s like getting the latest smartphone model and sim card with unlimited data for free."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/27/english-world-power-language-linguistic-justice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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'He told me he had started writing the song for a prospective musical version of Nosferatu years before, but never finished it. Around the time we were recording, Meat Loaf had lost his voice, and after it was a hit he always used to say: “Dang. That song should have been mine!”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/27/bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-nosferatu-musical

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This is big news:

"Word came this morning that Biogen is dropping their anti-amyloid antibody (Aduhelm, aducanumab), so it's time to take stock. I was never happy about the FDA's decision to approve it, and that's putting it lightly."

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/goodbye-aduhelm

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"The woman’s case wasn’t a one-off. Just about every time an embryo implants and begins to grow, it dispatches bits of itself into the body housing it. The depositions begin at least as early as four or five weeks into gestation. And they settle into just about every sliver of our anatomy where scientists have checked—the heart, the lungs, the breast, the colon, the kidney, the liver, the brain."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/

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"In 2022, there were 941 reported cases of measles in the World Health Organization’s European region. Over just the first 10 months of last year, according to an alarming bulletin the W.H.O. issued in mid-December, there were more than 30,000."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/health/measels-europe-vaccination.html

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The Sting

"Intrigued by a citation-boosting service that we unravelled during our investigation, we contacted the service while undercover as a fictional author, and managed to purchase 50 citations."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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"At least two million low-income children have lost health insurance since the end of a federal policy that guaranteed coverage through Medicaid earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, according to newanalyses by researchers at the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and KFF, a health policy research organization."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/medicaid-children-lost-coverage.html

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"Compared to 2021, we now have almost seven times as many editors in Latin America and more than five times as many in Africa. Specifically, while Latin American and African editors combined made up less than 1% of our editorial board in our last report, currently 7% of eLife editors are based in Latin America and 3% are based in Africa (Figure 1). The number of eLife editors in Asia has also grown, at the moment constituting 14% of our editorial board compared to 11% in 2021."

https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e3b5c5c9/elife-latest-2024-update-on-the-diversity-of-our-editorial-community

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Trains are in terrible shape, but yes let's all focus on TAP & airports

"A história tem vindo a ser relatada nas páginas do PÚBLICO: a linha ferroviária da Beira Alta, que se encontra encerrada desde Abril de 2022, permanecerá interrompida à circulação por “pelo menos mais seis meses”

https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/30/opiniao/opiniao/incuria-investimento-publico-2068413

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When visitors from the UK bring the weather with them.

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"Anthony (Tony) Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), was the founding father of research into the part that viruses play in the development of human cancers. Today, seven types of viral infection — more than one of which can be prevented by vaccination — are known to cause specific cancers in people. Collectively, virus-associated tumours account for up to 15% of cancer cases globally each year. Yet, when Epstein began his research in the early 1960s, the concept of a link between viruses and human cancer was deeply unfashionable. Epstein’s discovery has had an enormous influence on the direction of cancer research, from underlying mechanisms to new prospects for prevention."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00763-9

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I cant believe I missed this just because I was, well, zero years old at the time

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'The country has managed to build itself the longest high-speed rail network in Europe and the second longest in the world, now spanning approximately 2,500 miles (4,000km) (and still expanding). By way of comparison, France has built 1,740 miles (2,800km), and Britain – still coming to terms with its latest high-speed fiasco – 68 (110km).'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/spains-high-speed-trains-arent-just-efficient-they-have-transformed-peoples-lives?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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"When bats fly, their metabolism can rev up to 15 to 16 times above its resting state; their heart rate may soar above 1,000 beats per minute; their body temperature can exceed 105 degrees Fahrenheit, effectively plunging the animals into an epic fever state. Put all of that on virtually any other mammal, and their body would likely be overwhelmed by the blaze of extreme inflammation, the toxic by-products of their metabolism effectively rending cells apart."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/11/bat-disease-virus-health-aging/675943/

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'Groups seeking to harness mind-altering substances including MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms and 5-MeO-DMT, a hallucinogen found in desert toad secretions, raised at least $163mn across five deals in January, according to PitchBook and company data.'

https://www.ft.com/content/4a2e856c-4736-4b8b-9323-583bb1dbe8f4

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