💰 Interested in studying brain computations using functional imaging, behavior, physiology, applied mathematics and #zebrafish, at @KISNeuro, @NTNUnorway, on a project funded by @forskningsradet ? We are hiring, join us ! https://t.co/cHQHXiQVBF
💰 New #postdoc position to develop novel models of large-scale brain dynamics, and use these to uncover brain activity causing OCD
https://t.co/TxtwlHYVyt
https://t.co/TxtwlHYVyt
A thread on a working paper ‘Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science’
https://t.co/XnuwTQGkcz
https://t.co/XnuwTQGkcz
💉 Is it a good idea to delay the second jab? "We should stick with what’s been proven to work. We don’t want to be creative for some unclear benefit and then have an unexpected problem."
https://t.co/9Aan3D0aW7
https://t.co/9Aan3D0aW7
Nature
How can countries stretch COVID vaccine supplies? Scientists are divided over dosing strategies
Researchers worry that efforts to free up limited vaccine doses are driven by desperation rather than data.
INHOMOGENEOUS RANDOM SYSTEMS
26-27 January 2021 Online
http://irs.math.cnrs.fr/2021/
The aim of this annual workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on disordered or random systems, and to discuss recent developments on themes of common interest. Each day is devoted to a specific topic.
Tuesday 26 January:
Structure and function of complex networks: epidemics and optimization. Titles and abstracts
Wednesday 27 January:
Statistical Physics of Active Matter. Titles and abstracts
The conference and online participation are free and open to all. To receive your connection link, please register in advance by sending an e-mail with your name and affiliation to:
26-27 January 2021 Online
http://irs.math.cnrs.fr/2021/
The aim of this annual workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists working on disordered or random systems, and to discuss recent developments on themes of common interest. Each day is devoted to a specific topic.
Tuesday 26 January:
Structure and function of complex networks: epidemics and optimization. Titles and abstracts
Wednesday 27 January:
Statistical Physics of Active Matter. Titles and abstracts
The conference and online participation are free and open to all. To receive your connection link, please register in advance by sending an e-mail with your name and affiliation to:
inter@math.cnrs.fr with subject: IRS 2021Random minimum spanning trees
Christina Goldschmidt from the Department of Statistics in Oxford talks about her joint work with Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Nicolas Broutin (Paris Sorbonne University) and Gregory Miermont (ENS Lyon) on random minimum spanning trees.
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/30217
Christina Goldschmidt from the Department of Statistics in Oxford talks about her joint work with Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Nicolas Broutin (Paris Sorbonne University) and Gregory Miermont (ENS Lyon) on random minimum spanning trees.
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/30217
💉 Can you spread Covid-19 if you get the vaccine?
The reason we don’t know if the vaccine can prevent transmission is twofold. One reason is practical. The first order of business for vaccines is preventing exposed individuals from getting sick, so that’s what the clinical trials for Covid-19 shots were designed to determine. We simply don’t have public health data to answer the question of transmission yet.
The second reason is immunological. From a scientific perspective, there are a lot of complex questions about how the vaccine generates antibodies in the body that haven’t yet been studied. Scientists are still eager to explore these immunological rabbit holes, but it could take years to reach the bottom of them.
To prevent Covid-19 transmission, another type of antibodies could be the more important player. The immune system that patrols your outward-facing mucosal surfaces—spaces like the nose, the throat, the lungs, and digestive tract—relies on immunoglobulin A, or IgA antibodies. And we don’t yet know how well existing vaccines incite IgA antibodies.
People who get sick and recover from Covid-19 produce a ton of these more-specialized IgA antibodies. Because IgA antibodies occupy the same respiratory tract surfaces involved in transmitting SARS-CoV-2, we could reasonably expect that people who recover from Covid-19 aren’t spreading the virus any more. (Granted, this may also depend on how much of the virus that person was exposed to.)
But we don’t know if people who have IgG antibodies from the vaccine are stopping the virus in our respiratory tracts in the same way. And even if we did, scientists still don’t know how much of the SARS-CoV-2 virus it takes to cause a new infection. So even if we understood how well a vaccine worked to prevent a virus from replicating along the upper respiratory tract, it’d be extremely difficult to tell if that would mean a person couldn’t transmit the disease.
The reason we don’t know if the vaccine can prevent transmission is twofold. One reason is practical. The first order of business for vaccines is preventing exposed individuals from getting sick, so that’s what the clinical trials for Covid-19 shots were designed to determine. We simply don’t have public health data to answer the question of transmission yet.
The second reason is immunological. From a scientific perspective, there are a lot of complex questions about how the vaccine generates antibodies in the body that haven’t yet been studied. Scientists are still eager to explore these immunological rabbit holes, but it could take years to reach the bottom of them.
To prevent Covid-19 transmission, another type of antibodies could be the more important player. The immune system that patrols your outward-facing mucosal surfaces—spaces like the nose, the throat, the lungs, and digestive tract—relies on immunoglobulin A, or IgA antibodies. And we don’t yet know how well existing vaccines incite IgA antibodies.
People who get sick and recover from Covid-19 produce a ton of these more-specialized IgA antibodies. Because IgA antibodies occupy the same respiratory tract surfaces involved in transmitting SARS-CoV-2, we could reasonably expect that people who recover from Covid-19 aren’t spreading the virus any more. (Granted, this may also depend on how much of the virus that person was exposed to.)
But we don’t know if people who have IgG antibodies from the vaccine are stopping the virus in our respiratory tracts in the same way. And even if we did, scientists still don’t know how much of the SARS-CoV-2 virus it takes to cause a new infection. So even if we understood how well a vaccine worked to prevent a virus from replicating along the upper respiratory tract, it’d be extremely difficult to tell if that would mean a person couldn’t transmit the disease.
Quartz
Can you spread Covid-19 if you get the vaccine?
Answering this question will take us one step closer to our new normal.
Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants.
https://t.co/wolhtZIMc5
https://t.co/wolhtZIMc5
Some mostly-tongue-in-cheek solution to the Fermi Paradox: the aliens are out there, but they look like black body radiators, because they're really smart and encode their communication optimally: https://t.co/YwkRAIpnPZ
💰Interesting in doing a #PhD on immune system networks: https://t.co/a0vx7Nojth ?
Two Doctoral studentship (DPhil) opportunities in Mathematics, University of Oxford.
Closing Date:
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 12:00
Modelling Cytokine Interactions: simulating network dynamics under uncertainty for cytokine targeting treatments of auto-immune and inflammatory diseases (code CKGSK)
AND
Network stability in auto-immune diseases (code STABI)
Applications are invited for two 4 year D.Phil. iCASE Studentships in Mathematics, funded by GlaxoSmithKline and the EPSRC.
Two Doctoral studentship (DPhil) opportunities in Mathematics, University of Oxford.
Closing Date:
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 12:00
Modelling Cytokine Interactions: simulating network dynamics under uncertainty for cytokine targeting treatments of auto-immune and inflammatory diseases (code CKGSK)
AND
Network stability in auto-immune diseases (code STABI)
Applications are invited for two 4 year D.Phil. iCASE Studentships in Mathematics, funded by GlaxoSmithKline and the EPSRC.
💰 Great opportunity to work as a junior researcher (ideally pre-PhD) at ISI. You will work for 1 year on data science applied to different projects with social impact. Competitive salary. You must take legal residency in Piedmont to accept the scholarship. Apply!
https://www.isi.it/en/lagrange-project/scholarships
https://www.isi.it/en/lagrange-project/scholarships
💡 Ten simple rules for tackling your first mathematical models: A guide for graduate students by graduate students
https://t.co/znbENQbAXJ
https://t.co/znbENQbAXJ
journals.plos.org
Ten simple rules for tackling your first mathematical models: A guide for graduate students by graduate students
If you are analysing #networks and would like to use #community #detection algorithms (at least >50 of them are available) in an #standard and comparable way, have a look at #CDlib library in Python presented in this paper: https://t.co/kxnQKO3bwq
💉 The idea of using RNA in vaccines has been around for nearly three decades. But it's taken the pandemic to thrust RNA vaccines into the limelight.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00019-w
Nature
How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
Nature - The technology could revolutionize efforts to immunize against HIV, malaria, influenza and more.
💰 paid #ComputationalSocialScience summer internship doing text analysis of short-form online identity expression
https://t.co/4WXoRrIYNV
https://t.co/4WXoRrIYNV
reddit
Paid Computational Social Science Summer Internship for Undergrads...
Posted in r/compsocialsci by u/jasonjonesresearch • 6 points and 4 comments
Winter School "Ethics and Neuroscience" 2021
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/events-list/winter-school-ethics-and-neuroscience-2021.html
https://www.bccn-berlin.de/events-list/winter-school-ethics-and-neuroscience-2021.html
www.bccn-berlin.de
Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" 2021 - BCCN
The 10th Winter School Ethics of Neuroscience and AI is taking place on March 8-12, 2021. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The event is tailored for MSc and PhD students, but covers a range of topics of potential…