The thread is here for whenever you have the time to share anything. That is an awesome title.Thank you!
I don't have time right now for any in-depth discussion but I'd like to kickstart this thread with one of the best titles I've come across in the literature:
Fantastic yeasts and where to find them: the hidden diversity of dimorphic fungal pathogens - PubMed
Dimorphic fungal pathogens are a significant cause of human disease worldwide. Notably, the dimorphic fungal pathogens within the order Onygenales are considered primary pathogens, causing disease in healthy hosts. Current changes in taxonomy are underway due to advances in molecular...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Scientists can sometimes have a sense of humour
www.gosh.nhs.uk
Thanks for sharing this - it is very interesting that 48/50 of the children were successfully treated and such treatment is available until a bone marrow donor is found.I am not a scientist (computer science doesnt count does it?) but do read a fair bit and found this amazing. Saw mention of it on reddit in response to some people who tried to claim some of the newest vaccines developed are gene therapy (?) - so people discussed actual gene therapy. Its incredible.
Edit - I did use the V word here but barely haha (just saw the bit of text on the first post). Hope thats alrightGene therapy offers a potential cure to children born without an immune system
An international team of researchers at GOSH and UCLA have developed a gene therapy that successfully treated 48 out of 50 children with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency
Welcome to the thread! I briefly remember you mentioning your background on one of the thread. Yes I think you can call yourself a scientist of sorts
I so want to do a PhD but don’t know if I can handle the stress for 3 years. 
My background is in research/psychology/neuro but I love to learn about many areas of science.yes that’s before the petty comments startedWelcome to the thread! I briefly remember you mentioning your background on one of the thread. Yes I think you can call yourself a scientist of sorts
I love reading your responses Jen, you have much thicker skin than I do!
Feel free to share anything that is of interest to you!
Such an intersting topic. There must be a lot of hesitation with participation in research due to the sheer amount of misinformation out there! Which areas of psychology/neuro is your initial background in?yes that’s before the petty comments started
It will be 6 years for me as I’m doing it alongside work… looking at attitudes towards participation in research and in particular pandemic research, my initial background is also in psychology/neuro
Yes that's a really impressive sample size and some really interesting data. I thought this point made in the discussion was particularly interesting and a good example of how research can have a positive impact on society:This particular study I found fascinating as the sample size is huge: 1,789,728 individuals from 814,806 families.
Association Between Risk of COVID-19 in Nonimmune Individuals and Immunity in Family Members
This cohort study examines the spread of COVID-19 infection within family members living in the same residence with different levels of immunity.jamanetwork.com
i did a lot of really diverse stuff when I first started out but then have been drawn much closer to the psychology of thinking type stuff, particularly in relation to conspiracies, odd beliefs etc, even before all the covid stuff came along! I then worked in medical research management for a number of years but am currently involved in mental health service development so a big change really!Feel free to share anything that is of interest to you!
Such an intersting topic. There must be a lot of hesitation with participation in research due to the sheer amount of misinformation out there! Which areas of psychology/neuro is your initial background in?
I’m getting major PhD envy.
I am not very familiar with the the field you did your PhD in. What does it entail?That’s quite a varied background! I had done some reading into the psychology/behavioural aspect of conspiracy theories. It has become quite relevant in the past couple of years since the pandemic started.
Haha I was sometimes so envious of my friends with proper jobs when I was doing my PhD. It was incredibly tough and lonely at times but I'm glad I persevered. Paleoclimatology is essentially reconstructing prehistoric climates. There are obviously no written records for the majority of Earth's history so we use proxies that have been preserved, which carry climate information e.g. ice cores, speleothems. In my PhD I was analysing the isotopic compositions of various biomarkers found in lake sediments.I’m getting major PhD envy.
Thanks for taking the time to explain what Paleoclimatology is and what your PhD was on. Very interesting field of work and one I was not very familiar on at all!
You're very welcome
This is the first time I have seen this. I don’t know much around the field but found it very interesting that the solar storms were reflected in the annual tree growth rings. To determine a specific year is pretty amazing.You're very welcome
What are everyone's thoughts on the science that was in the news the other day about Vikings settling in North America years before Columbus got there? I love this interdisciplinary stuff and I find it slightly mind boggling that they've determined an exact year.
size reduction occuring in the last 3,000 years due to us socialising more and the emergence of collective intelligence. I believe there are so many areas of our brain we do not use or activate due to advances in technology and life - we do not need to tap into these areas as much or use our brain to the capacity it can be used.
www.frontiersin.org
3000 years is such a short amount of time in terms of evolution. That's really quite something! And this made me chuckle: "The brain size reduction in Holocene humans parallels that of domesticated animals, suggesting that humans have self-domesticated by deliberately removing highly aggressive individuals from breeding populations".I was reading this research about brain
Frontiers | When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have d...
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