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Sylvie Coyaud, retired science reporter, not sapiens yet.
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E' anche "sadopopulismo".

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

"We seek diversity because more expert voices make for better science." @aaas.org next?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

#genomics Unusual recipe for allele frequency & heterozygosity of large wild mammals. Collect tsetse 🪰 who drink their blood, sequence all the DNA they contain, throw theirs away and extract from the rest 🦒, warthog and (>300k!) 🐘 SNIPs. (h/t www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

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"The origin of the pandemic is still deeply politicized." So was the origin of AIDS before it was dated back to a century ago. A "theory" involved an anti-polio vaccine derived from monkey cells, and tested in Africa. Willliam Hamilton died of malaria, while investigating it.

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Grazie @bsky.app. Ieri sera ho segnalato un deep fake politico e 5 minuti dopo l'account era sospeso e lo è tuttora. Era la mia prima prova... bsky.app/profile/marc...

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#AGW Uno dei paper gratis e interessanti - imo - che steph segnalava e riassumeva ieri.

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#cognitiveneurosciences #neurotransmitter #genetics First aid impulse Like 🦣, 🐬 and chimpanzees, mice have an innate rescue instinct and resuscitate with stereotyped behaviours an inconscious (sedated or anesthetized) 🐭. In parts of their amygdala and hypotalamus, neurons with activated Fas 1/2

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#USpolitics Some of the bad news in the last 30 days www.nature.com/articles/d41... and in the last 10 days www.science.org/content/arti...

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collection enough for him to pay his debts and legal fees. For more info, see @forbetterscience.bsky.social still censored in Italy. 2/2

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#Schadenfreude Carlo Croce (13 retractions, "most cited italian scientist" etc.) has lost his lawsuits against - The NYT for libel - OSU to regain his Oncology Dept chair - his lawyers he hadn't paid who foreclosed on his mansion - and now Sotheby's that didn't value his Baroque art collection 1/2

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@Butac.it tarda, ci penso io #BufalediStato J.D. Vance alla Conferenza sulla sicurezza: in Scozia il governo vieta di pregare in casa a chi abita... Niente spoiler, poi vado a vedere se diceva pure che gli immigrati mangiano i cani e i gatti degli scozzesi. youtube.com/watch?v=pCOs...

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#USpolitics 😡 Two papers & editorials were also published in JAMA last week about the "unequal impacts" on infants' mortality & women's fertility of abortion bans in Texas & other states. Not open access - key points in press release publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/two-new...

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#Mendeliandiseases #antisensenucleotides Good news! In newborns, risdiplam improves survival but doesn't cure #SMA-1, a neurodegenerative disease. It was given to the mother in the last 6 weeks of pregnancy, and the little girl seems SMA-free, while her brother had died when 16-months old.

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Good News After a series of fines and violations of court orders, the French equivalent of FoxNews - toutes proportions gardées - lost its TV broadcast licence.

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#USpolitics #Frenchwordplay

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#USpolitics #H5N1 Decimate USDA too, while "U.S. Faces Bird Flu Threat as Cases Surge in Early 2025"... www.agriculture.com/u-s-faces-bi...

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#retractions In 2020 and 2021 "China’s science ministry and other government bodies have tried to crack down on fraud and perverse incentives to publication."

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Se siamo d'accordo, possiamo firmare tutti.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Well done, team @elisabethbik.bsky.social One #Didier Raoult & Co's 19 trials with the same IRB approval, and also one of 4 trials with the same Comité de Protection des Personnes - explained in this 🧵 bsky.app/profile/fabr...

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Well done, @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, @forbetterscience.bsky.social et al.

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#USpolitics USAiD's "agricultural research [in poor countries] has enjoyed long-standing support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and politically influential U.S. farm groups." So has USAID buying 41% of its food aid from politically influential U.S. farm groups...

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#atmospheredynamics #ETseasons The hexagonal cloud-spinning jet stream at Saturn's north pole, captured on a clear winter day by the Cassini mission in 2006, thanks @jwstfeed.bsky.social! More Hexagon's pics and videos from Cassini: science.nasa.gov/mission/cass....

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#climate #extremeevents #treerings Warnings... Yu Liu at al. link past drought phases to "significant social unrest and dynasty collapses", and more severe "20th century drought extremes" to "the weakening of both the Asian Monsoon and Westerlies due to anthropogenic aerosol emissions".

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