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Thiago Carvalho
@cyrilpedia.bsky.social
I've worked on all of science, from T cells to B cells.
https://fellowsherpa.com
In which @marcsdionne.bsky.social let's the cat out of the bag, in a lecture that met the Michelin three start definition: worth a journey on its own.
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I have to say, Papillon Part Deux sounds very underwhelming.
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Claro! Mas o que eu aprecio e' um modelo alometrico criado pelo rapaz mesmo se, como se diz na minha terra, "na practica, a teoria é outra"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I love the smell of a cool hypothesis in the morning.
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Me, watching the White House turkey pardon ceremony
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
'The latest short from the Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel, Darwin’s Notebook, envisions the experience of these captured people’s journey from their home to England and back again in his distinctive painterly style.'

aeon.co/videos/the-s...
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Semi-cold weather is here & it's going to be ramen all week at Cafe Chihiro (aka Bolo da Chihiro) in SJ Estoril!
chihiro.pt
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The great Tatsuya Nakadai has died, the Times obit had this great picture (by Bertrand Laforet) with his frequent collaborator, Akira Kurosawa at Cannes (in 1980, so it's got to be for Kagemusha).
Below is a short 🧵on him that I'd posted about him a few months ago
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m...
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"The High Priestess of Soul as she was called – and rightly so! Nina looked like a Queen Nefertiti or Cleopatra as I sat on the floor and looked through the wide-angle lens."
- Music photographer Barrie Wentzell
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'She certainly felt insulted when she found that the main dining room at King's, where scientists would meet for discussions over lunch or coffee, was open only to men; this un-Parisian attitude was hard to take even if not unusual in English colleges at the time.'
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
‘i could smell the onions and the mustard’
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It's a great post. Jax used to have a good history of the lab mouse online, but I cant find it anymore. Two fun books on model organisms that I recommend are 👇
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
... and this Japanese short story collection, Biogenesis
by Tatsuaki Ishiguro, has some weird... bio fiction, though not (if I recall correctly), genetic engineering
October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
'(...) VeriMe in Denver, CO, with start-up funding from London-based company Digital Science (a firm operated by the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, which is the majority shareholder of Springer Nature)' which is of course owned outright by the Sheinhardt Wig Company

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
'Fictitious personas are just one example of identity fraud. Individuals and paper mills can also impersonate real scientists, posing as authors, reviewers or guest editors to slip poor-quality or fabricated work into journals'
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Le Hasard et la Nécessité
"I once asked Akira Kurosawa why he had chosen to frame a shot in Ran in a particular way. His answer was that if he'd panned the camera one inch to the left, the Sony factory would be sitting there exposed, & if he'd panned one inch to the right, we would see the airport"
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
But reading King Leopold's Ghost makes it hard to thing of anyone other than the Belgians as the bottom of the barrel, colonial category
October 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The sequel to For a Few Epitopes More
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A self explanatory title
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
'The frog prince of the grapevine'
Photograph: Beate Ammer
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This would shave 15mins from 30% of House episodes

'These findings highlight biological features that effectively distinguish sarcoidosis from TB and healthy populations and can be considered for the development of an optimized diagnostic method for sarcoidosis.'

academic.oup.com/jimmunol/adv...
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The receptionists at LaCaixa's science museum in Barcelona.
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Closet friedmanite @marcsdionne.bsky.social on how there's no such thing as a free immune response

www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19788...
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I follow you, across oceans of platforms
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is why physics is so much easier than biology
October 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM